A Connecticut Summer
Tuesday, March 22, 2011
Oh! Woman
The Definite Global Collective Post
Vivek Chakrapani
Fortune Institute of International Business
New Delhi
You can do almost anything you put your mind to ...
You can swim the deepest ocean and climb the highest peak ...
Be a doctor or fly a plane
You can face adversity and still walk tall. You are strong, beautiful, compassionate and much more than words could ever say!
Today is yours, and so is ever other day....
You can swim the deepest ocean and climb the highest peak ...
Be a doctor or fly a plane
You can face adversity and still walk tall. You are strong, beautiful, compassionate and much more than words could ever say!
Today is yours, and so is ever other day....
Monday, March 21, 2011
Oh! women
The Definite Global Collective Post on Women Empowerment
If you want to understand the influence and impact of women on our society, economy, politics, and even endurance as a human species... then you will want to read a book called "Half the Sky". One of the authors spoke at TED and this is the link to her video:
http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/sheryl_wudunn_our_century_s_greatest_injustice.html
Jane Chin
CEO,
9Pillars,Los Angeles, California
If you want to understand the influence and impact of women on our society, economy, politics, and even endurance as a human species... then you will want to read a book called "Half the Sky". One of the authors spoke at TED and this is the link to her video: |
| Sheryl WuDunn's TED Talks |
Saturday, March 19, 2011
Oh! woman
The Definite Global Post on Women
Sangeeth Varghese LSE
Founder: LeadCap,Leadership Villages India
Author: Decide to Lead, Open Source Leader (Penguin Books)
There is this lovely research that was undertaken sometime back, which said that the best way to uplift a family out of poverty is to help the woman of the house find more employment opportunities. Because out of every Rs.1000 earned by a man, almost a third goes in his self-indulgence pursuits, while every penny of the Rs.1000 earned by a woman is put in to good use for the upliftment of her family - kids education, better health, sanitation etc. rather than in trivial pursuits like gambling, liquor etc. And if we take the liberty of extrapolating this in to the development of a nation, I would say that more women empowered would definitely have a great positive impact on such matters like corruption etc. contributing multifold to the development of our nation.
Photography/Design-aEmage
Founder: LeadCap,Leadership Villages India
Author: Decide to Lead, Open Source Leader (Penguin Books)
There is this lovely research that was undertaken sometime back, which said that the best way to uplift a family out of poverty is to help the woman of the house find more employment opportunities. Because out of every Rs.1000 earned by a man, almost a third goes in his self-indulgence pursuits, while every penny of the Rs.1000 earned by a woman is put in to good use for the upliftment of her family - kids education, better health, sanitation etc. rather than in trivial pursuits like gambling, liquor etc. And if we take the liberty of extrapolating this in to the development of a nation, I would say that more women empowered would definitely have a great positive impact on such matters like corruption etc. contributing multifold to the development of our nation.
Wednesday, March 16, 2011
Oh woman
The definite global post on women empowerment
Sarathlal
Co-Founder - Wayanad e user group
I think men should respect women as a humen being and give equal
opportunity in all fields.. I hope, She can save our earth
Sarathlal
Co-Founder - Wayanad e user group
I think men should respect women as a humen being and give equal
opportunity in all fields.. I hope, She can save our earth
Monday, March 14, 2011
Oh Woman
The Definite Collective Global Post on Women Empowerment
Nature bestowed on women the right to carry and pass on the pulse of civilization. We need to accept and respect this fact.
Joushith
FIDE rated Chess player, Calicut
Nature bestowed on women the right to carry and pass on the pulse of civilization. We need to accept and respect this fact.
Joushith
FIDE rated Chess player, Calicut
Thursday, March 10, 2011
Letters from connecticut >> Paul Lalley
Connecticut in summer and Moo Moo
Hi, Anil,
Paul
Hi, Anil,
Attached are a few more pix from Connecticut showing gardens
that surround our house.
that surround our house.
I also included a picture of Moo Moo the cat relaxing in his
favorite chair.
favorite chair.
Hope you enjoy how beautiful Connecticut can be in the summer.
(Also, Moo Moo.)
(Also, Moo Moo.)
Best,
Paul
Wednesday, March 9, 2011
Oh Woman
The definite global collective post on women empowerment
Paul Lalley, Connecticut, USA
Hi, All,
I just finished reading a biography of Eleanor Roosevelt by Russell Freedman. It was selected as a Newbery Honor Book by the American Library Association.
Mrs. Roosevelt, the wife of President Franklin Roosevelt, was empowered by her wisdom, grace and her warmth. She worked tirelessly for decades to improve the world, and with great success. She met with powerful leaders and was, in fact, a world leader in her own right.
She fought for civil rights when discrimination was still law in parts of the U.S. She was a special envoy for peace while working at the United Nations. Though she came from a privileged background, her life was spent helping those who most needed help. That's what makes women powerful - what makes women empowered - the drive to make the world a better place.
As I was reading about her trips abroad to promote peace after World War II, I kept thinking how different the world would be if women ran governments at all levels. I think we'd see a more compassionate world, a less violent world and a more loving world.
She was a remarkable woman who led a difficult life, yet overcame her own personal insecurities to travel the world helping make it a better place.
That's true empowerment.
Best to all my friends in Wayanad.
Paul
Editor`s note:
This post, originally a comment for our "Oh Woman" global post series deserves better attention and it was decided by the students` editorial desk to republish as a regular post. Special thanks to our good friend Paul Lalley (http://www.webwordslinger.com/ ) from CT.
Paul Lalley, Connecticut, USA
Hi, All,
I just finished reading a biography of Eleanor Roosevelt by Russell Freedman. It was selected as a Newbery Honor Book by the American Library Association.
Mrs. Roosevelt, the wife of President Franklin Roosevelt, was empowered by her wisdom, grace and her warmth. She worked tirelessly for decades to improve the world, and with great success. She met with powerful leaders and was, in fact, a world leader in her own right.
She fought for civil rights when discrimination was still law in parts of the U.S. She was a special envoy for peace while working at the United Nations. Though she came from a privileged background, her life was spent helping those who most needed help. That's what makes women powerful - what makes women empowered - the drive to make the world a better place.
As I was reading about her trips abroad to promote peace after World War II, I kept thinking how different the world would be if women ran governments at all levels. I think we'd see a more compassionate world, a less violent world and a more loving world.
She was a remarkable woman who led a difficult life, yet overcame her own personal insecurities to travel the world helping make it a better place.
That's true empowerment.
Best to all my friends in Wayanad.
Paul
Editor`s note:
This post, originally a comment for our "Oh Woman" global post series deserves better attention and it was decided by the students` editorial desk to republish as a regular post. Special thanks to our good friend Paul Lalley (http://www.webwordslinger.com/ ) from CT.
A thought on women empowerment
Sunil Kumar K
Government Higher Secondary School, Meenangadi, Wayanad
According to Prof.Tom lutz, University of Iowa “women cry on average 64 times a year, and men only 17.” Normally a person cries out of pain or agony from the bitter experiences which he befalls by the society.
Why women cry average 64 times than men? This question haunts me to think about this natural process. In this celebrative mood if we highlight this matter our thoughts will go to the rigorous or harsh execution of the society towards women. Society always highlight the women`s issue in a way that it actually deviate from the main issue of the real women empowerment. Who is responsible for this?
In olden days when we go through the pages of history the status of women in a society was just like a `painter` who knows the artificial background of a picture They color the society with lot of colors from which different kinds of pictures emerge. Society’s anxiety grew a little and their minds polluted, from there they made severe attack on woman folk. Woman becomes the caterpillar of society. Look at the change, how the “pillars “of the society become “caterpillars”
In the different strata of society nowadays women play an important role, it`s because society doesn’t feel the fullness or the perfection without them. Education is the main factor which leads them to perform the fundamental needs of the society. Women in space, on earth, everywhere they play a vital role. Covetous of power looking them with their third eye that misinterprets them which questions their virginity. “Nudism” came into existence. Society`s eyes searched for the hidden. In one of the worst tragedies of recent times in Kerala, the horror of a misled youth was unleashed on a young girl, barely 23, travelling home from work. What does it show?
Are women secure? Women empowerment is the need of the hour in order to achieve balance in the society.
Oh Woman
Collective Global Post on Women series ..March 8 - April 8
You are welcome to express your views. Mail us @
ylpwayanad@gmail.com
Neethu
Shri Budha College of Engineering
Alappuzha
International Women`s Day doesn`t make any change in the routine of a woman labourer .We know that women are engaged in digging pits to lay underground cables.Only through proper education and security we can provide them a secure life. Security of women is their right and responsiblity of a society. The stability of our population depends upon the birth of each child from her.
She plays the role of a child, girl, mother, wife etc. If we provide proper education to a woman, then the ideas from her will help in the development of our society and our country. Understanding the importance of women the cetral government has provided 1/3rd reservation to them in parliamentary seat. In our country some women are in higher post. Sonia Gandhi, our Lok sabha speaker Meera Kumar and Chanda Kochar, ICICI MD are some among them. If they have the ability then every woman in our country has this ability. So women are inevitable part of any society.
You are welcome to express your views. Mail us @
ylpwayanad@gmail.com
Neethu
Shri Budha College of Engineering
Alappuzha
International Women`s Day doesn`t make any change in the routine of a woman labourer .We know that women are engaged in digging pits to lay underground cables.Only through proper education and security we can provide them a secure life. Security of women is their right and responsiblity of a society. The stability of our population depends upon the birth of each child from her.
She plays the role of a child, girl, mother, wife etc. If we provide proper education to a woman, then the ideas from her will help in the development of our society and our country. Understanding the importance of women the cetral government has provided 1/3rd reservation to them in parliamentary seat. In our country some women are in higher post. Sonia Gandhi, our Lok sabha speaker Meera Kumar and Chanda Kochar, ICICI MD are some among them. If they have the ability then every woman in our country has this ability. So women are inevitable part of any society.
Tuesday, March 8, 2011
They rocked the world
“Can the soul which is cramped into surroundings
which have no amenities, and which is dependent
on a body fed on unappetising food, reach its
fullest development?”
Adeline Virginia Woolf (pronounced/`wulf/)
25 January 1882 - 28 March 1941
English author, writer of short stories, essayist and publisher.
Virginia is regarded as one of the world`s foremost modernist literary figures.
A member of Bloomsbury group, Virginia`s famous works include the novels Mrs.Dallowaya, To the Lighthouse and Orlando.Virginia became a beacon of the feminist world with her long essay, which was presented in Cambridge : A Room of One`s Own.Considered as the Bible of women`s rights A Room of One`s Own is famous for its dictum:
"A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction."
Virginia suffered from severe depression and she committed suicide, a tragic but perhaps natural end for an unnatural life.Before scripting the last lines of her own life, Virginia left the following note for her husband:
"Dearest, I feel certain that I am going mad again. I feel we can't go through another of those terrible times. And I shan't recover this time. I begin to hear voices, and I can't concentrate. So I am doing what seems the best thing to do. You have given me the greatest possible happiness. You have been in every way all that anyone could be. I don't think two people could have been happier 'til this terrible disease came. I can't fight any longer. I know that I am spoiling your life, that without me you could work. And you will I know. You see I can't even write this properly. I can't read. What I want to say is I owe all the happiness of my life to you. You have been entirely patient with me and incredibly good. I want to say that – everybody knows it. If anybody could have saved me it would have been you. Everything has gone from me but the certainty of your goodness. I can't go on spoiling your life any longer. I don't think two people could have been happier than we have been."
Prepared by AFRC Art for Education wing.
Monday, March 7, 2011
Oh....Woman
The definite collective global post on women empowerment
based on the question
Why women are important in today`s world
Pooja Sheth - Bangalore
A woman is important not just in today's world. She has been important since time immemorial. She has been the medium through which the Almighty manfiested himself to destroy the evil and make good triumphant. Be it Kaikeyi in Mahabharata, Mother Mary in the Bible or Mariam in the Qur'an.
Today's woman has adorned the same role as she did centruies ago. The difference is never in kind. But may be in degree. She is natures wa of maintaining a balance between the brain and the heart. If a man is said to be logical and think. A woman is sensitive and emotes. Like everything else that is natural, needs a balance as per nature's law. She is equal to and balances her male counterpart in all phases of life.
It is the sky she wants to,
Not just reach, but bring back with her
Just a wee bit taller if I was she thinks..
I could conquer you..
She finds her tree.. with one foot on the root
...With the other on the highest branch,
She leaps and grabs a chunk of the sky.
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Marie Anne - France
Can you imagine, Anil, your world without Laila's laugh ? It would be a sad and boring desert..
The times when a lot of women are allowed to use their intelligence only to serve men and family must finish. The world needs intelligence of all human beings ! It needed, it needs, it will need, forever.
Marie-Anne, woman, teacher, mother of four daughters
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Arumugham Shankar
Microsoft Student partner, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu
Women, they have great management skills
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Compiled by Laila/Anil
Thursday, March 3, 2011
Let go >> Who am I?
My cousin Viji, now a fashion designer, peered deep into my eyes.
"You do not look like a Malayali. Nor a Kannada or Tamil guy.Definitely you don`t look north Indian."
She sat closer .
"Brother, you don`t look like a foreigner."
"Then who am I sister?"
"You ...You..."
The girl who is deeply spiritual and does all her meditation properly was troubled for sometime, as the answer was oozing from her slender fingers.Then she sprang up:
"You look a Human Being!!"
Less educated, I am, I got my finest certificate.I felt great. That night I realised how important it is to feel human and how important it is to be humane like my inward looking sister.
"You do not look like a Malayali. Nor a Kannada or Tamil guy.Definitely you don`t look north Indian."
She sat closer .
"Brother, you don`t look like a foreigner."
"Then who am I sister?"
"You ...You..."
The girl who is deeply spiritual and does all her meditation properly was troubled for sometime, as the answer was oozing from her slender fingers.Then she sprang up:
"You look a Human Being!!"
Less educated, I am, I got my finest certificate.I felt great. That night I realised how important it is to feel human and how important it is to be humane like my inward looking sister.
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