National Academy For Moral Development

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-  Have you ever thought about why we have to send our children to school? Do we have the choice not to school our child? The school is considered so holy that there is no life without school. The school/college is more important than bread, butter, and water. Schools and colleges that we see today are the products of history. In the beginning, for hundreds of thousands of years, children educated themselves through self-directed play and exploration. There were no master plan buildings and closed cages (classrooms) as we see today or been in one of the cages ourselves. In relation to the biological history of us as humans, schools are very recent institutions or the factories of discipline (one of the synonyms of discipline is punishment). The meaning of discipline in English is ‘the practice of training people to obey rules and behave well’. The education system as we know it today is only about 200 years old. Before that, formal education was mostly reserved for the rich. B...

 - Yes, it's well over $100 Billion. As per today’s Dollar valuation, it comes to Indian Rs 7,40,000 Crores. Yes, you might have guessed the answer already, it is common that we think Bill Gate or Warren Baffet, as per the latest Harun list it's our own TATA, the Jamsetji Tata is a philanthropist of the century with $102 billion in donations.   You are well aware of TCS, TATA Safari, TATA salt, TATA Steel, etc etc. Yes this is the house of business whose founder has topped the list.   He has emerged as the top philanthropist in Edelgive Hurun India’s list of philanthropists of the century, advancing the likes of Bill and Melinda Gates, Warren Buffet, Henry Hughes and George Soros.   Who is Jamsetji Tata? He is the founder of the $200-billion Tata conglomerate, he is the one who founded what would later become the  Tata Group  of companies. He is regarded as the legendary "Father of Indian Industry”.   He was so influential in...

-  This incident happened at Mysore, Karnataka. Friends this is very heart touching.  Today as we, the members of Rotary Heritage Mysuru, were busy in our Annadaana preparations, a seemingly poor, over 70 year old senior citizen, Kamalamma walked in to the premise. Our natural expectation was that she might ask us for some food. Even as we extended the food packets to her, she refused...a little hesitatingly she mustered up some courage and took out something hidden behind the clothes and said..." I have been watching you guys supplying food to my area for over 30 days now...so i just felt i should give you Rs 500/- from the Rs 600/- monthly pension i receive. It is a small amount but please accept". We were shocked , we were embarrassed that we offered her food, we were taken aback by her gesture of parting Rs 500 out Rs 600 pension she receives and that too in such difficult times. In spite of our several requests to keep the money, she insisted that we accept it,which we d...

 - This is the story of a prestigious company and a good hearted engineer save millions of lives with very humble gesture of putting society first and giving up their personal satisfaction and prestige. Read the story: *In 1959, a Swedish engineer at Volvo patented what would become one of the greatest inventions of all time.* _Volvo stood to make billions_ *But after a meeting with Volvo's President, he decided to give it away for free - and it changed the world* Here’s how that meeting went: After receiving his mechanical engineering degree from a University in his hometown of Härnösand, Sweden, Nils Bohlin joined aircraft maker Saab to work on ejector seats. For 16 years, he continued to focus on safety and was eventually designing complete pilot rescue systems. Nils was anchored to the idea of safety above all else, and brought this same mentality to a welcoming team at Volvo. There, he focused his attention on all the driver and passenger safety systems, starting with seatbelt...

 - Today worldwide the urban centres are becoming too large, complex and complicated. People are finding it difficult to come up with solutions with regards to city management. Currently, it was in the news that most of the free public spaces in Bangalore city will be made into paid parking spaces. These efforts are one of the measures to encourage public transport. In this proposal there is an effort to issue the parking passes, also monthly passes to the owners of the cars which they can buy and use to park cars beside designated public roads. This is just a proposal which was published in the newspaper recently. This is one example of how things are becoming complex in the cities.  In another example, before few years in Delhi, it was in the news where the 'even and odd car number' system was introduced. Even after introducing the system, it was also not as effective as expected. Delhi also considered being one of the most polluted cities in the world. New Delhi was the wor...

 - This is justice. The accused was a 15-year-old boy. Caught stealing from a store. When caught, he tried to escape from the guard's grip. A store shelf also broke during the resistance. The judge heard the indictment and asked the boy, "Did you really steal anything?" "A packet of bread and cheese," the boy confessed. "Why?" "I needed to," the boy replied shortly. "Buy" "There was no money" "Take it from family" "There is only mother at home. Sick and unemployed. Bread and cheese were stolen for her." "You don't do anything?" "I used to do a car wash. I took a day off to take care of my mother." "You ask someone for help." "I have been asking since morning. No one helped." The trial ended and the judge began delivering his verdict. "Theft, and especially the theft of bread, is a terrible crime. And we are all responsible for this crime. Everyone in cour...

 - Medical nationalism : Don't bother shutting the barn door - the horse is long gone!!  The recent gazette notification on ayurvedic "surgeons " being allowed to operate has sounded a code blue in the medical community. There is a sudden concern regarding quackery (which we have made refined an art form) and the impropriety of it all.  Ayurveda, the ancient Indian form of medicine evokes visions of miraculous cures in the eyes of believers and derision in the medical community. The former is due to the aforesaid miracles promised and the latter because the  practitioners of modern medicine are left to pick up the pieces. While we can never be sure what ancient ayurveda was like because the mysticism surrounding it and also because the current wave of supercharged nationalism leaves no space for sensible debate. But one thing is for certain - it did not incude liberal prescription of steroids, third generation cephalosporins and frequent and expensive MRI scans! The ...

 - *SOME PARADOXES* 😕 Moms want their daughters to control their husband and expect their sons to control their wives. 😕Everything that is run by the Government looks very bad except Government jobs. 😕A huge country of more than 20 languages..... united by a foreign language  😕Seeing a policeman makes us nervous rather than making us feel safe. 😕We often say "Atithi Devo Bhavah" but we do not allow visitor parking in our residential societies. 😕We are Always in a hurry but never on time..! 😕Holy places are very interesting places: The POOR beg outside and the RICH beg inside. 😕 Institutions become bad after we retire..! 😕 While in service, one who handed over charge is always bad and projected as Villain.. 😕 Employees start liking you once you get transferred..! 😕 Best of friends become enemies in social media for nothing.. we post so many morals in whatsapp ..... but never follow a single one  😂😂😂😂😂😂 Source: received through whatsapp

 - 🌹*What exactly is a happy man's chair?*🌹 If a man has assets worth Rs 18,000 crore, what can be his next dream in life? After all, who doesn't dream of going to a small village in Tamil Nadu, teaching poor children and feeding them twice a day, playing cricket with the village children and drinking tea together on tapri ... But the fragrance of our soil after years of tradition and culture led a man across the seas to dream like this, and the owner of a huge company in Silicon Valley, USA, came directly from California to a small village called 'Mathalamparai' in Tamil Nadu's Tenkasi district. *Sridhar Vembu.* Born into an ordinary Tamil family. From a student at IIT Madras to the owner of a large software company, Zoho Corporation, the CEO is now seen cycling through the small streets of Mathalamparai wearing a plain shirt and traditional white veshti. The experiment, which started with three children in free time during lockdown, has now grown to four teacher...