Category Archives: Education

Happy Place: Wood Lake Nature Center

Wood Lake Nature Center is a 150-acre natural habitat located in the heart of the City of Richfield, Minnesota. It has walking trails, floating boardwalk, lakes and diverse species of wildlife, including flora and fauna. This center conducts a number of … Continue reading

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Childhood – Gone, But Not Forgotten

“Those were the best days of my life“. How indeed! Now that we are grown up, seeing photographs of our childhood can evoke lot of fond memories – memories that will always be etched in all the cells of our life. Though … Continue reading

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Mi Primer Blog en Idioma Español

Mi esposa bonita y yo decidimos ir a México. Porque ella trabaja en la oficina y está ocupada, yo planeo el viaje a México. Muchas personas opinan que  el país de Latino América, México, no es un lugar seguro. Pero … Continue reading

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Humanity – Thy name is Aashayein Foundation

This photo blog is part of Weekly Photo Challenge: Humanity. Seeing a hand go up in despair, there were more hands ready to hold. I saw several times a hand dipped in warmth satiating a hungry stomach. Smiles have been … Continue reading

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A Grammy Awaits Norbert Wiener in 21st Century

This article was first published in the newsletter (February) of IEEE 2014 Conference on Norbert Wiener in the 21st Century, Boston (USA). Read newsletter here. This article was also cited by Jim Siegelman, journalist and author of several books which includes the … Continue reading

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Blessing of Letters

Every year, Aashayein Foundation, a non-profit organization co-founded and run by me in Hyderabad (India), organizes a drawing and painting competition for underprivileged children living in various orphanages of the city. The event is called Indradhanush in Hindi language, which … Continue reading

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My Experience with Digital Books

(First-Prize-winning Essay at TCS Global Essay Competition) ‘Crime and Punishment’by Fyodor Dostoyevsky could never have been better. It is now almost 150 years old. But the experience of reading is mesmerizing in my Kindle HD Book Reader. The feverish figure … Continue reading

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Their World

          They live in their own world. They have their own colors, trees built of their own orange and red shades. They sing their own songs. They seem not to be from this world. They are not even aliens. They … Continue reading

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AF 2.0: BMKS Parents Meet

It was AF 2.0. 1st event of 2012. And probably, for the 1st time, 3rd generation of volunteers would have got the feel of what AF is and what BMKS (Bacche Mann ke Sache) means to AF and parents. Aha! … Continue reading

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Computer Education = Magic Box

Aashayein Foundation Hyderabad has started computer classes in its Shikshana Abhiyana (SA) schools. You are invited to be part of this new beginning. We are also inviting volunteers – part-time as well as full-time alongwith paid teachers for taking classes … Continue reading

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