National Academy For Moral Development

- Our Blog had last year published an article regarding safety of your personal information on whatsapp. This week, many Indian news publishers have been discussing this after the WhatsApp chats of bollywood members were digged out from their personal chats, during NCB verification. Click to read one sample news: Below you can read our original article: <------------> We are proud to say that we cautioned our readers with below article an year ago. Image Source: http://www.selfprotectionltd.com/ “All human beings have three lives: public, private, and secret.”  ―  Gabriel García Márquez How well are we equipped to categorize these three aspects of life? 86% of people who actively use the internet are taking active steps to improve their internet privacy. Source . Are you?   Most people still want to remain anonymous while online, but it just isn’t a possibility today . More than half of all internet users say that it is impossible to b...

This video lecture is in Kannada language. The video discusses three things which makes gandhi one of the great leader. The tittle of this article is 'forgotten Gandhi'. In  dictionary the meaning of forget is, to fail to remember to do something that you ought to have done . Click to watch the video lecture in Kannada. Source: This video is received as a whatsapp forward. The video mentions it's source to have been aired in government radio channel.

When we look at many of our inner beliefs and its actual action in our lives, we find ourselves to be hypocrites. It’s very easy to praise a concept and preach it, but the challenge is when we start implementing in our life. Today there is a lot of discussion about feminism. This is discussed in corporate offices, educational institutions, and political arenas and so on. Let us try to understand the concept of feminism. Feminism refers to the belief that women should have the same rights and opportunities as men. It tries to define, establish and achieve political, economic, personal, and social equality for men and women. We can discuss in length on the topic whether feminism should be understood in terms of equality or equity. Let us not discuss equality and equity now. We can keep it for another occasion. Practically feminism includes seeking to establish educational, social and professional opportunities equally for men and women. And also feminism focuses on basic co...

     You have heard of 🍕 pizza delivery, Zomato, and grocery home delivery. Look at this company which is on a mission of Blood delivery model. Delivering blood to remote rural areas, helping doctors to save many lives. This is been done in Rwanda, a Country in East Africa. Rwanda is a landlocked country with green mountainous landscapes. Click to watch the video: Source: Youtube 

Is this a human life? In the below link you will find a video documentary. A documentary on manual scavengers. 'What I learnt from climbing into human waste' Click to see full documentary:

The word “Development” is associated with the spread of “Industrialism” --- an ideology of ever increasing material growth and consumption through faster and faster exploitation of Nature, using the wonders of large scale Science and Technology, guided by powerful Nation States and Corporations, rising world scale trade , and individualism. Last 30 years of information technology has been able to make almost everyone aspire to climb this endless consumption ladder. This has brought the world to the brink of ecological collapse, depths of socio-economic inequalities and despair, increasingly dysfunctional political institutions, and hugely stressed socio-cultural systems. In the last few decades, efforts to bring justice, equity, sustainability in the idea of development, can be classified in two broad arenas --- One, what we call , changes  within  the existing Industrialism paradigm ( such as global efforts to measure development more comprehensively...

- Gratitude is the feeling of being grateful or of wanting to give your thanks to somebody. - There is growing evidence that being grateful may not only bring good feelings. It could lead to better health. - This study also found evidence that more grateful people sleep better because they have fewer negative thoughts and more positive ones at bedtime. - While the evidence that gratitude practices benefit sleep is still preliminary, it’s strong enough to suggest that those of us counting sheep may want to try counting blessings instead. - Besides helping them sleep, gratitude may lead people to engage in other behaviors that help keep them healthy, like eating well and not smoking.  Click to read full article :

Snippets : - We have a tendency to absorb what we’re witnessing and that it has an impact on our body and brain. - Researchers have a name for that high we get from witnessing human goodness:  “moral elevation.”   - It appears that moral elevation inspires altruism (regard for others) because of a mixture of arousal and the desire to protect others.  - Moral elevation inspires optimism, and makes people want to be a better person and to  act altruistically  toward others. - As per one finding, moral elevation has a positive effect on people regardless of background. By: Jill Suttie Click to read full article from source:

Snippets- - This story is about a doctor who broke the professional barriers to serve. - Dr Omkar Hota’s is a heart-warming story of what human empathy can do.  - The 31-year-old doctor put the woman, Subham Marse, on a cot and ably helped by her husband, the duo trekked for three hours through the inhospitable terrains of Chitrakonda block so that they could reach the nearest public health centre (PHC) at Papulur. - Finally he helped save the life of a mother and a newborn. Click the link to read full story: Source: The New Indian express, 5th November 2017, Online news source.

Snippets : - The problems facing our world demand a wholistic education that has peace as a core value.  - For children, peace education then, is about fostering creativity to use new ideas to solve the old problems and conflicts their elders face. - How peace building could be practised at school level. For Example, for situations of bullying in schools, the curriculum could be introduced for development of empathy, practicing dialogue skills, and examining their misunderstandings that lead to hurtful discrimination and exclusion. - Shifting language from aggressive and domineering to harmonizing and peaceful promotes empathy early on. Click to read full article from source :