Shailja

This world belongs to cats, we just live in it. 🐈‍⬛

[The Nobel Prize @NobelPrize]

"Anytime you try to teach the subjects without teachers who love the subject, it is doomed to failure and is a foolish thing to do."

Remembering physicist and professor Richard Feynman who was famous for his easy-to-understand explanations of scientific concepts.

Learn more about Feynman: https://t.co/movBjo67cW

[The Nobel Prize @NobelPrize]

“I thought that my only good trait was to gaze at the sky and get lost in my thoughts.”

Physics laureate Syukuro Manabe.

Learn how his work paved the way for today’s climate change models. https://t.co/wbUkf1glLf

#NobelPrize

[Shailja @__shailja]

Nowadays, cats are getting a lot of cute space on the internet. I am happy that they are finally getting the love and respect they deserve.

#cats #cutecats

[Shailja @__shailja]

@Paravkahol Relatable

[Parav @Paravkahol]

I think one of the worst feelings you can experience is realizing that so many people believe in you and see so much potential in you but you keep letting them down.

[Pritam Chauhan @Im_pritam18]

Dr. Pratosh at IISc Bengaluru tells his students that rapid advances in AI are commoditizing intellectual labour.

He raises an unsettling question: if companies stop recruiting on campus in the next 5–10 years—even at India’s top universities—what will the purpose of a university education be ?

A must watch video for everyone in tech

[Shailja @__shailja]

@SharmaG28280402 @ankudhiman Rich 😂😂 ? Seriously.... this is your argument? 😂😂😂

[Shailja @__shailja]

@SharmaG28280402 @ankudhiman How ?

[Abhishek Dhiman | Himachal Diaries @ankudhiman]

CM साहब की प्राथमिकताओं को 21 तोपों की सलामी! 🫡

​सैलरी टाइम पर मिले न मिले, इंफ्रास्ट्रक्चर ठीक हो न हो, पर हर क्लासरूम में लैवेंडर कलर की नुमाइश ज़रूर होनी चाहिए। स्कूल चला रहे हैं या कोई कॉर्पोरेट वेडिंग इवेंट?

​टीचर्स पर दया करो सरकार, ये ड्रेस कोड है या मज़ाक! 🤦‍♂️

​#HimachalNews #TeachersDressCode #FashionFauxPas ​#HimachalPradesh #EducationSystem #DressCodeControversy

[Shailja @__shailja]

@Nithya_Shrii

[Shailja @__shailja]

@ImAbhiThakur Nice infra. I can only dream.

[Sann @san_x_m]

3 of the biggest academic publishers in the world sued a photocopy shop.

The shop charged 50 paise a page. It sat inside a university campus in Delhi and had 1 owner.

The case ran for 4 years. The shop won, and the law changed.

His name is Dharampal Singh.

He set up Rameshwari Photocopy Service in 1998, in a small licensed space inside the Delhi School of Economics at the University of Delhi.

The work was simple. Professors would prepare a reading list. For a course like Agrarian Sociology, that might mean 33 different readings, scattered across 33 different books, most of which cost more than a student's monthly budget and some of which the library had 1 copy of.

Singh photocopied the relevant chapters, bound them together, and sold the bundle. It was called a course pack. The price was 50 paise per page.

That is less than 1 American cent.

He explained it in 1 sentence. If a student needs 33 readings for a course, he said, it could take months to collect them from different books. I make life easier for students by giving them all the material in 1 pack.

In August 2012, Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press and Taylor and Francis filed suit in the Delhi High Court against the shop and against the University of Delhi. They wanted a permanent injunction.

By the end of 2012 the court had granted a temporary one. A commissioner was sent to the shop without warning, made an inventory, and seized copies.

Then something unusual happened.

Students organised. 2 groups, one of students and one for educational access, formally applied to join the case as defendants, on the side of the photocopy shop. The court allowed it.

In March 2013, 309 authors and academics from around the world wrote an open letter to the publishers asking them to withdraw the case.

33 of those 309 had written the very books whose copyright was allegedly being infringed.

The authors were siding with the shop copying their books.

On 16th September 2016, Justice Rajiv Sahai Endlaw dismissed the suit entirely. He wrote that copyright in literary works is not an inevitable, divine or natural right conferring absolute ownership on authors.

The publishers appealed. On 9th December 2016, a 2 judge bench of the Delhi High Court delivered the final ruling.

It held that reproducing copyrighted material for the purpose of educational instruction is not infringement under Indian law, and that no licence or permission from the publisher is required for a course pack, however much of the book is copied, as long as it is justified by teaching.

Then the publishers withdrew from the case entirely.

The shop is still there.

The next time you are told that intellectual property law always favours whoever has the most expensive lawyers, remember that 3 of the largest publishers on Earth spent 4 years trying to shut down a photocopy shop charging half a rupee a page.

And lost.

[Gurleen/ਗੁਰਲੀਨ/گُرلین @KesarKudi]

Everyone will get a UID card. 😹

[Abhishek Dhiman | Himachal Diaries @ankudhiman]

गजब है हिमाचल की सुक्खू सरकार की 'व्यवस्था परिवर्तन'! 👏🤡

​▪️ राज्य चयन आयोग से टफ टेस्ट पास करो ✅
▪️ नौकरी? सिर्फ 5 साल का कॉन्ट्रैक्ट ✅
▪️ सैलरी? साल में मात्र 10 महीने की ✅
▪️ वो भी फिक्स ₹30,000 ���

​और काम की शर्तें सुनिए:
🔹 दिन में 3 बार हाजिरी (सुबह, दोपहर, शाम) ⏰
🔹 ऊपर से नया 'ड्रेस कोड' 👔

​सुखविंदर सुक्खू जी, ₹30 हज़ार में शिक्षक रखे हैं या कोई 24×7 ड्यूटी वाला AI रोबोट इंस्टॉल कर दिया है? इतना अनुशासन अगर मंत्रियों की जवाबद��ही पर लगा देते तो क्या ही बात थी! 🤦‍♂️

​#HimachalPradesh #SukhuGovt #VyavasthaParivartan #HimachalTeachers #CBSEHP #HimachalNews

[Naughty Himachal (𑚝𑚵𑚔𑚯 𑚩𑚮𑚢𑚭𑚏𑚥) @NaughtyHimachal]

On 1 September 1972, Kangra district of Himachal Pradesh was reorganized into three districts: Una, Hamirpur and Kangra.

[AkshaY @I_M_Immortal_]

You won't tell the ppl on the ground that inflation is ~4.5% at retail & ~9.8% wholesale.
They're already feeling the heat every time they shop,pay rent or refill their kitchen.
GDP growth ka achaar dale?

[Nanya🌸💕 @Nany_aaa]

Introvert final boss of tweets

[Abhishek Dhiman | Himachal Diaries @ankudhiman]

UGC NET result कल रात आया, लेकिन HPPSC Assistant Professor फॉर्म की अंतिम तिथि 25 Aug थी! इससे योग्य अभ्यर्थी इस गोल्डन अवसर से चूक गए।

​यह सही समय है—आज ही HPPSC को कॉल और मेल करें और मांग करें कि फॉर्म की तिथि 31 August तक बढ़ाई जाए। 📢

#HPPSC #UGCNET

[Abhishek Dhiman | Himachal Diaries @ankudhiman]

आदरणीय मुख्यमंत्री जी @CMOFFICEHP,

​कल UGC NET का परिणाम घोषित हुआ है, जबकि HPPSC असिस्टेंट प्रोफेसर ��ॉर्म भरने की अंतिम तिथि 25 अग��्त थी। इस कारण प्रदेश के सैकड़ों योग्य युवा आवेदन से वंचित रह गए हैं।

​छात्र हित में फॉर्म भरने की अंतिम तिथि 1 सप्ताह तक बढ़ाने की कृपा करें। 🙏

[Avijeet | Personal Branding Strategist @avijeet_writes]

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