[EnglishSTF-7897] Hindi Literature Whatsapp Group - RULES FOR POSTING

2016-12-25 Thread Gurumurthy K 
Dear teachers,

Most of you will also be members of many whatsapp groups. Sometimes, we
find that the members post irrelevant and meaningless messages which waste
reader's time. Sometimes the messages are offensive and create unnecessary
quarrels in the group.

To avoid such problems, the Hindi Literature Whatsapp Group has prepared its*
- RULES FOR POSTING*

I found them quite useful and I suggest all of you can refer to these and
see if some of these rules you can adopt for your whatsapp groups also. (Of
course it is not necessary that you will agree with all rules, you can take
what makes sense to you).

And yes, I have translated the Hindi rules into English (feedback on the
translation welcome)

See - http://karnatakaeducation.org.in/KOER/en/index.php/Whatsapp_rules

regards,
Guru

IT for Change, Bengaluru
www.ITforChange.net

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[EnglishSTF-7896] Re: 'population explosion' as a cause of poverty in India

2016-12-25 Thread Gurumurthy K 
The plea to reduce consumerism is  on the same lines of what Jesus Christ
said "... I tell you the truth, it is hard for a rich man to enter the
kingdom of heaven. Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through
the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God."

Merry Christmas to all 

regards,
Guru


IT for Change, Bengaluru
www.ITforChange.net

On Sun, Dec 25, 2016 at 1:18 PM, Gurumurthy K 
wrote:

> Dear teachers
>
> I learnt in my school that India's biggest (or one of India's biggest
> problems) was 'population explosion'.  During the emergency, mass
> sterilisation (often forced) was done to 'control population'. Even today,
> we have sterilisation camps (mostly for women), to reduce the population.
> Even now it is popular thinking that our poverty, malnutrition, illiteracy
> are all due to 'population explosion'
>
> However, it is more and more clear to many that an important cause of
> poverty is the rampant consumerism in a minority of the world's population
> .. As Gandhi said..'there is enough for everyone's (and everyone's) need
> but not for everyones greed...' ... we can take care of all the people in
> the world and provide them food, clothing, shelter and meaningful
> work/life but the earth cannot afford current rates of exploitation and
> mindless consumerism / greed ...
>
> " Pope Francis reached the same conclusion; he points out that blaming
> “population growth instead of extreme and selective consumerism on the part
> of some, is one way of refusing to face the issues.” To blame population
> growth is, he goes on to say, “an attempt to legitimize the present model
> of distribution [of wealth and resources], where a minority believes that
> it has the right to consume in a way which can never be universalized,
> since the planet could not even contain the waste products of such
> consumption.”
>
> read more at http://www.nationofchange.org/2016/12/21/rapacious-
> consumerism-climate-change
>
> Consumerism is the biggest cause of climate change/environmental
> degradation ... and since it is inherent in the current model of
> capitalism, it is important that we re-look at our 'Economics' and reform
> it ... including what we teach in schools
>
> Comments welcome..
>
> regards
> Guru
> IT for Change, Bengaluru
> www.ITforChange.net
>

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