Tyranny Of The Class Room

http://m.thehindu.com/opinion/columns/tyranny-of-the-classroom/article9046820.ece

Don't Share Personal Details With Strangers

https://m.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=553926478133103&id=100005472662926&set=a.154634138062341.1073741825.100005472662926&source=57

Unfortunately this is in Tamil only - no translation.

Perils Of WFH (Working From Home)

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/do-work-from-home-oleg-vishnepolsky?trk=eml-b2_content_ecosystem_digest-recommended_articles-104-null&midToken=AQFGTBkk8hSJtQ&fromEmail=fromEmail&ut=22f9t1mfQZqTo1

Those Who Don't Learn From History Are Condemned To Repeat It - Indian Olympics

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/congratulations-winning-bronze-sakshi-i-so-wish-you-had-shashwat-dc?trk=eml-b2_content_ecosystem_digest-recommended_articles-82-null&midToken=AQFGTBkk8hSJtQ&fromEmail=fromEmail&ut=2rGxZgoM4ZqTo1

Final medal tally: https://www.rio2016.com/en/medal-count-country

(Financial Advisors And) Banks Missell

http://www.livemint.com/Money/awK0YY4hh548TMgj27eTmM/Here-is-proof-that-banks-missell.html

Are You Moral

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1208219379209082&id=100000630940460

Additional reading: On Olympics - https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1209881169042903&id=100000630940460

See No Evil

http://www.adweek.com/tvspy/ktla-reporter-calls-radio-host-a-pig-after-he-says-he-could-see-her-underwear/176402

No duppatta and eyebrow color darker than hair color. Like the heroine in Six Days and Seven Nights said to the hero "I do want men to look at me. Just not men of your type."

Self Compassion And Healing And Mindfulness

http://greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item/how_self_compassion_can_help_you_through_divorce

Quote from the article:

Meditation is one popular method of achieving mindfulness. Meditation can deactivate the brain’s “default mode,” the energetic state the brain is in when it’s not focusing on a specific task. In default mode, your brain might dwell on past regrets or future worries.

One way to bolster self-forgiveness is to write yourself a supportive letter, the type you might send a friend. A recent study showed that people who wrote a short, compassionate letter to themselves about a distressing situation every day for a week felt better, and had lower symptoms of depression and higher happiness rates even six months later.  

Indus Valley Civilization

http://store.fortresspress.com/media/downloads/0800697901Chapter1.pdf

Bowel Control

https://www.niddk.nih.gov/health-information/health-topics/digestive-diseases/bowel-control/Pages/ez.aspx

Life Improvement Hacks In 31 Days

http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/3dVvss/:1RJo1rZRI:HXYNNDFf/www.inc.com/marcel-schwantes/these-31-life-hacks-can-improve-your-life-in-just-a-month.html

Swiss Maggi And Indian Courts - 2 Minutes

http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/hcs-have-just-a-few-minutes-to-hear-each-case/article8986978.ece

Junking The Napkin

http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/sustainable-menstruation-junking-the-sanitary-napkin/article8986547.ece

Interesting Place In Kerala - Pathiramanal Off Alapuzha

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pathiramanal

When A Goodbye Is So Nice

I was sitting in the park when I saw a small girl walking towards me accompanied by her doting parents and grandma. 

She was wearing those squeaking shoes and she was walking with her chest leaning forward without much of a control with either her speed or direction. 

She must have been about 1.5 years old. As she came near me she smiled and waved at me and turned right and left with her entourage. I got engrossed in what I was doing. A few minutes later, i heard someone say bye to me. I looked up.  It was the same toddler walking past me as she was leaving the park and waving to me with a smile. 

I smiled and waved bye to her.  Are toddlers generally capable of smiling and waving to complete strangers? How beautiful a person she would turn out to be as an adult...

Greenland Shark - Longest Living Vertebrate

http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-37047168: Lives approximately 400 years.
and also this:
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/aug/11/400-year-old-greenland-shark-is-the-oldest-vertebrate-animal

Real Power With A Smile

https://m.facebook.com/WomanseraCarRally/photos/a.100881453594192.1073741826.100870793595258/311404122541923/?type=3&source=48&refid=28&_ft_=qid.6318001960533839026%3Amf_story_key.-180232672913036444&__tn__=E

Death vault By Dipa Karmakar

http://www.huffingtonpost.in/2016/08/08/why-the-death-vault-that-propelled-dipa-karmakar-to-olympics-fin/?utm_hp_ref=in-homepage

Dealing With Self Centered People

http://www.huffingtonpost.in/entry/dealing-with-arrogant-people_b_990331

Love And Suicide

http://selfexistingbeing.blogspot.in/2010/04/on-ayn-rand-suicide.html by Osho.

Additional reading:

• Suicide and euthanasia: http://atlassociety.org/commentary/commentary-blog/4128-suicide-and-assisted-suicide
• About Alissa Rosenbaum aka Ayn Rand: http://nymag.com/arts/books/features/60120/index1.html
• Ayn Rand availed of social security benefits: http://www.alternet.org/story/149721/ayn_rand_railed_against_government_benefits,_but_grabbed_social_security_and_medicare_when_she_needed_them

Setting The Standard

http://www.forbes.com/setting-the-standard/#250d557c41e7

How do we see excellence in government functions in India? When do we get to see metrics (and authentic ones at that) for normal government functions?

For example if there a regular traffic jam in one place in a city who monitors it that leads to a decision to widen the road or build a flyover or whatever and that too in a finite time frame (not 7 or more years)?