Santosh Avvannavar's Blog, page 57
May 13, 2016
Cord 9
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“Here comes a compilation of 40 short stories by Meena R Chandawarkar and Santosh Avvannavar that uses The Umbilical Cord as a metaphor to bring social awareness and intends to draw the reader’s attention towards the society. The stories in this book revolve around love, forgiveness, empathy etc. as society is a cobweb of relationships. There is something for everyone in this book. Read on to find out which ‘cord’ is closer to your heart, as the Umbilical Cord is an attachment that remains forever…the name says it all…”
May 11, 2016
Cord 8
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“Here comes a compilation of 40 short stories by Meena R Chandawarkar and Santosh Avvannavar that uses The Umbilical Cord as a metaphor to bring social awareness and intends to draw the reader’s attention towards the society. The stories in this book revolve around love, forgiveness, empathy etc. as society is a cobweb of relationships. There is something for everyone in this book. Read on to find out which ‘cord’ is closer to your heart, as the Umbilical Cord is an attachment that remains forever…the name says it all…”
May 10, 2016
Cord 7
Other reviews – click here & Goodreads
Ebook : Amazon
Facebook Page : UC
“Here comes a compilation of 40 short stories by Meena R Chandawarkar and Santosh Avvannavar that uses The Umbilical Cord as a metaphor to bring social awareness and intends to draw the reader’s attention towards the society. The stories in this book revolve around love, forgiveness, empathy etc. as society is a cobweb of relationships. There is something for everyone in this book. Read on to find out which ‘cord’ is closer to your heart, as the Umbilical Cord is an attachment that remains forever…the name says it all…”
May 6, 2016
Story of Herd Instinct
When a series of pine caterpillars are placed in a circle that form end-to-end and each will follow the caterpillar in front of it around the circle indefinitely. Inspite the food being placed in the center of the circle, but the caterpillar continue to circle until they die from starvation.
This story often left me with a thinking, how many a times we lead a life like Pine Caerpillar without imagination? If one continues to lead life without imagination each of us tasting success would be difficult. If this to be believed true, are we adhering to herd instinct?
May 4, 2016
Learning to Learn
When people come together with several goals together and a teacher/trainer need to prepare one common goal keep all those goals into consideration yields an interesting outcome. This romance of learning that happened on Monday & Tuesday.
April 28, 2016
Late Lateef
I had newly joined a college after much of hardship that was several furlong away from my adobe. To my bad luck, I often reached ten (or more) minutes late to the campus. Late is perhaps a negative word that invites punishment. Firstly I had to answer to the principal who wasn’t in a position to listen. He only knew to yell and asked me not to show my face again. Did he stop seeing me next day? Never! This delayed to attend first period and often the door remained closed to indicate ‘not allowed’. This pattern got a prefix to my name ‘Late’ Lateef. I wasn’t late by choice but poverty, walk (unable to afford transport), and aging parents are few factors to being late. I wish learning place could understand that the intent is important than a pattern. The pattern was of major concern because everybody in hierarchy had agreed to it without asking ‘why’.
This pattern cost me separation, antagonism, exploitation and so on. Earlier I believed that place of learning create a new free individual. Is it really doing it?
April 26, 2016
April 23, 2016
Right Spirit & Self-deceptive
Last few years life in semi-urban or rural areas has fascinated me that often city misses to provide. There is rush and turmoil to be someone or make or break something.
One of my friend from one of such city mentioned the problem ‘on giving a charity to the needy’. He looked disturbed because the receiver of charity handed it down to someone else. This act of receiver seemed disturbing him since the time. I inquired to understand ‘why was he making a problem of it?’ He thought for awhile and said, ‘I might still have a feeling of possession.’ That the receiver should have kept it to oneself.
This is exactly the problem with the work or charity that doesn’t the right spirit. This doesn’t mean that spirit isn’t there but it existed as self-deception in the above case at a level. How do we look into it?
We tried to discuss such virtual cords that often we get entangled in our lives through a book ‘Umbilical Cord’.
April 21, 2016
FAN Hysteria
I went to FAN with a FAN sat below a FAN and with several FAN to be a FAN and make FAN. After this I yelled out to FAN to watch FAN with all fanfare!
#YoursFAN-fan
Creative Happiness Session
Fear and Happiness is like a cat and mouse chase stories. It’s fun to think but having fear is to handicap a potentially performing man. This could be because man lives beyond just food!
Students were taken through the discussion with activities to think on making a classroom without fear. Some stories were used to reflect on this aspects.
A photo to cheer in the end!
