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Story of Ovide Decroly
“School to be for the child, no child for school” Ovide Decroly believed so. Decroly is the pioneer of inclusive education in Belgium. He initiated the framework of special child education system, and gave assurance of systematic development of a child’s personality. This education system encourages individual interest, need and freedom which came to be …
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Puri Jagannath Temple
Here are few unsolved mysteries about Puri Jagannath temple Direction of FlagIt is found that the flag hoisted at the top of the temple dome always flows in the opposite direction of the airflow. There is no scientific explanation for this nature-defying fact. The Colossal ChakraThe colossal chakra which is more than 20 feet in…
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Out in the Open (Part 1)
The grass shone submerged in sunlight. The park had been maintained well. It was a working day; offices and all educational institutions were open, thus there was an obvious silence because of the lack of people around. A pair of legs wearing black shoes ran over the grass and slowed down till coming to a…
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Who decides time?
Do you know who started the concept of time?and from where has it evolved over? Welcome to thought ctrl and today we have all about the concept of Time! The first homo sapiens already walked the earth nearly 300 000 years ago. Yet, humans have barely been measuring 1% of that entire period. Historical records…
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Writers Fact 1
🎯Can you believe this because I cannot Well,Gertrude Stein (1874- 1946) was an American Novelist was known to learn the difference between Sentences and Paragraphs in writing by seeing the drinking pattern of her Dog. Curious right? Yes sometimes we just ignore these things and concentrate on things which give maximum productivity in just a…
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The Car of Dreams
In my country, buying a car is given a great deal of importance by a major part of the population, if not the most. It is not just associated with being luxurious possession but is also associated with progress, sometimes (or many) a progress which is hollow from within with a money that doesn’t exist…
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That Evening
Sunday evening arrived and ten years old Sohan sat sipping his hot chocolate. He was looking at the clock. It was 5:35 pm. Before 6 pm, his father would wake up from his Sunday evening nap. Sohan looked at his mother, Mrs Parnaik, who sat cutting vegetables. “Has father woken up?” asked Sohan Mrs Parnaik…
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The Return
It was 11:45 am, way past the office and school going time. Mrs Kansal walked home with a grocery bag. After her husband passed away, she thought very little of things which would allow her to be happy. Her daughter Vedika helped her through it. Vedika was a wonderful daughter and even her husband Daksh.…
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A Theft
The police constable, Adhiraj Chandrakar, stopped typing in the computer and looked up to find a man and a woman standing in front. Mr Chandrakar waited a few seconds for one of them to start speaking, but there were no words spoken, so he spoke, “Can you both speak?” “Yes,” said the girl Drishti, “my…
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An invitation never to forget
From very childhood till today it was knowingly or unknowingly book reading habit was injected in us or rather we have developed the idea of reading books and I guess it was through the genes through the hereditary structure. Reading started for me with Regional language and then both English and our regional language. Today…
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The Work that wasn’t mine
What jobs have you had? A person like me usually understands things on his own, alone, left with own thoughts and understanding. That privacy with the thoughts is an invaluable thing which people quite often do not understand unless they have the same kind of requirement. So, the first time I went on my own…
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Why Emotional Intelligence (EQ) Is More Important Than Intelligence Quotient?
Whatever begins in anger, ends in shame.” —- Benjamin Franklin In today’s corporate market it is very much required to understand the concept of emotional intelligence and Intelligence Quotient and which is needed in the present day. When you are in a job a balanced personality is a need but thinking each and everything through…
The memories that stay with us and the ones we create…
Early Morning Memories 