Sanjay Kumar

#IAS90||ex-Secretary,School Edu & Literacy,MoE,GoI||Nefelibata|| Physics St. Stephen’s College ||PG SUNY,Stonybrook,NY||MPhil 49 NDC||RXs ≠ Endorsement

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@World_Insights1 so china and singapore are almost level at learning outcomes but singapore does it at a much higher cost.

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@PankajPachauri what is the overlap between the two would be more interesting?what % of better educated are non religious?

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@IndexBihar 0.7 million is satisfying for a 10 year old museum.we must also inculcate a historical sense amongst the populace and museum visit is an important component.otherwise,we still have a long way to go. here is the annual footfall in european museums.

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@MaxCRoser can we superimpose india’s reduction of extreme poverty for comparative analysis?

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@Rainmaker1973 2025 is behind us.

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the pathology of technology of our times.@NewYorker

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दीपावली की अशेष शुभकामनाएँ ।सुख,शांति ,सम्मति,प्रगति ,प्रबुद्धता और समृद्धि के लिए।

happy diwali to all.for joyful peace,happiness,wisdom and prosperity to us and to the community we live in.may it restore the primacy of truth over post-truth,sincerity over glibness and need over greed.

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@beastoftraal vaild for every day including diwali spike.

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remembering #albertcamus on his birthday.many of us have yearned for meaning in existence and yet it seems futile.well,on most days.😇😇

he wrote ,“you will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. you will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.”

camus suggested 4 principles to deal with meaninglessness of life.

1.focus on the small things.

2.just be yourself coz man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is.

3.stop looking for happiness & meaning.

4. live with passion.

below is an excerpt from his 1957 nobel prize lecture.many of the concerns remain,still to be addressed.@EduMinOfIndia

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a low decibel india is urgently needed. its also a sign of caring and concern for each other. noise and intelligence can’t coexist.however,meditation and maun are a state of mind and being.its a trifecta of mind,ego and intellect.state may bring down the decibel level but bringing down of mental noise pollution would require more.

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this is the bane of present day political discourse.labelling parties and individuals left and right and many in between makes us miss the wood for the trees coz the entire debate becomes peripheral and restricted to name calling.religious left refers to faith,in this case christianity,addressing issues of poverty,equality,healthcare and rights of individuals as distinct from religious identity.isn’t that one of the core component of development in a democratic society? one can walk the line of which one side shall always be left and the other right. @ezraklein

[Sanjay Kumar @sanjayjavin]

this is the bane of present day political discourse.labelling parties and individuals left and right and many in between makes us miss the wood for the trees coz the entire debate becomes peripheral and restricted to name calling.religious left refers to faith,in this case christianity,addressing issues of poverty,equality,healthcare and rights of individuals as distinct from religious identity.isn’t that one of the core component of development in a democratic society? one can walk the line of which one side shall always be left and the other right. @ezraklein

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@RajeshwariRW we are missing the larger argument.a public servant still needs to manage his time and stakeholders are more often than one.lets not mix the public with private so as to lose the argument.

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@Vasudha156 the core of governance ,relegated to the periphery,must make its journey to the centre.being good looking further helps.😇

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@konstructivizm distances are relative.imagine calling the distance to the centre of our galaxy ,”only 26000 light years”.but then m87 is 55 million light years away.

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zbigniew brzezinski ,national security adviser to jimmy carter, made prescient observations about the way technology is going to pervade every aspect of our lives and how its sociology is going to pan out in his 1970 book ,”between two ages: america's role in the technetronic era”.

“the society will be dominated by an elite of persons free from traditional values who will have no doubt in fulfilling their objectives by means of purged techniques with which they will influence the behavior of people and will control and watch the society in all details. it will become possible to exert a practically permanent watch on each citizen of the world.”

@EduMinOfIndia

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in continuation of the same theme,here is an excerpt from a dialogue from the 2024 movie ,the conclave.

“certainty is the great enemy of unity. certainty is the deadly enemy of tolerance. even christ was not certain at the end. “my god, my god, why have you forsaken me?" he cried out in his agony at the ninth hour on the cross. our faith is a living thing precisely because it walks hand-in-hand with doubt. if there was only certainty and no doubt, there would be no mystery. and therefore, no need for faith. let us pray that god will grant us a pope who doubts. and let him grant us a pope who sins and asks for forgiveness and who carries on.”

how much can a human brain hold to create certainty is the question?

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hear cate blanchett speak.flawless selection of words,impeccable diction, sonorous cadence and master oratory.for the joy of listening.

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@ValaAfshar @DjokerNole best thinks in life are to be learnt.

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@aakashgupta if you know it then why can’t you factor it in your calculations?

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@sanjeevsanyal @Mundra08 something we never studied.i learnt to calculate simple and compound interest but not in the manner it’s embedded in financial instrumentalities.👏🏼