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How to Prepare for Your Class…

How to Prepare for Your Class: a Community Leader’s Advice to His Fellow Leaders In his play Henry V, Shakespeare wrote, ‘All things are ready, if our mind be so.’ Henry V, Shakespeare Each success is a result of a prepared mind and focused efforts. It is important to figure out what needs to be accomplished

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What Happens When You Truly Care

Some children need their own space and time to understand and explore themselves and the world around them. Avinash was one of them. It’s not that he has some disability but if the roots are not strong then the tree will not be healthy. It is the same with him. As far as academics are

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Time to Revisit Freedom as We Know It

Today, the nation is celebrating its 71st year of freedom. 71 years since we overthrew a power that usurped our land, our lives, our so called freedom. But, let us allow ourselves to look at freedom in a slightly different light. Have we really found freedom? Or are we still looking for something, something out

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Five Reasons why Reading is Awesome

Reading is a voyage and the reader, a voyager. The earliest piece I remember reading, deriving a meaning out of and experiencing, was the poem Leisure by William Henry Davies. It was part of my 4th grade English literature textbook. It left an imprint on my mind. That’s what I have always wanted my life to be like;

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Five Ways to Create Happiness at Your Workplace

We all know that happiness can be elusive! How then do you create an idea that keeps slipping out between targets, deadlines, the fun work-lunches, the occasional drunken exploits at the nightclub, incentives, tours, holidays, the works. Just how do you pin down this elephant in the room and basically dance with it? Aditi Kanwar,

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The Extraordinary Intern

When there was nowhere to go, she became a stream and began to flow. When there was no one to turn to, she turned to herself and began to grow These lines aptly sum up Zahra’s journey with Touching Lives. Not that she was an aimless wanderer before she joined Touching Lives. She had goals

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An Open Letter For the Children

An Open Letter For the Children of Touching Lives Dear Children, Before I met you all, I was lost on my way. There were so many confusions, so much of uncertainty that my vision of the journey ahead was completely blurred. And then Touching Lives happened, I still remember the day I first entered Touching

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Rawness and Innocence

What do I like about the World? The rawness with which it presents itself. There is no pretense, no makeup , No facade, It is just IS. It has hate in it but it also knows to love. It falls, but it also known to rise up again. It forms boundaries most of the time

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