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THE CURIOUS CASE OF BIRD FEEDER

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"Let the Children Learn How to Think and Use their Learning in Social and Environmental Harmony; Instead of  Learning What to Think?" Srishti made a bird feeder. Deepu and Deenu saw her trying to tie it to Amla tree's branch and rushed to help her. "Didi, what is this? Let us help you...we will climb the tree and tie it to the branch." "Thank you, Deenu and Deepu." Shrishti eagerly accepted their help. "Be careful. Please tie it to a slender branch and keep it out of cats' reach." "Don't worry Didi. We will take care of that too." replied the two friends while climbing up the tree to tie the bird feeder to its branch. Once the job was done to the trio's satisfaction, Deenu and Deepu once again asked Srishti about the bird feeder and how she had made it. "Deepu, it is a bird feeder I have made out of waste plastic items like an empty plastic bottle of 7Up, used plastic straw, and a single-use plastic

December 16, 2012

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DECEMBER 16, 2017 WAS THE FIFTH ANNIVERSARY OF NIRBHAYA INCIDENCE IN DELHI. ONE OF THE RAPISTS HAD SAID, 'GOOD AND DECENT WOMEN DON'T VENTURE OUT OF THEIR HOUSE AFTER 9 PM...' THIS PROVES RAPISTS ARE VICTIMS OF: 1. Lack of happy healthy childhood with proper parenting, schooling along with the progressive and pragmatic social environment. 2. The above-mentioned factors have a negative influence in the form of gender bias, prejudice, false self-perception, an unrealistic expectation set by parents, self, a community in the form of intra and inter-community influence. This is eventually extrapolated in personal and professional identity. 3. The influence listed as the second point makes the person feel helpless and allows his fear, apprehension and self doubt prey on him making him or her aggressive, vindictive with a domineering, complaining and negative attitude towards life. 4. Such a person can be easily manipulated into repressive and anti-social activities a