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“Somewhere between understanding and forgiveness there is another wall, too wide to get around.”
- Rick Bragg
"Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better." - Albert Einstein
(Taken at Pulau Ubin, Singapore)
Mahidol University in Thailand and the ILO have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) reaffirming their commitment to collaboration, knowledge-sharing and capacity-building in the pursuit of universal health and social protection in the region.
The agreement was signed by Prof Piyamitr Sritara, President of Mahidol University, and Ms Kaori Nakamura-Osaka, ILO's Assistant Director-General and Regional Director for Asia and the Pacific, at a ceremony to mark World Day of Social Justice 2025, held at Mahidol University on 6 February 2025.
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Understanding ragging .
Ragging is a social fact of an environment where there is persistent fear, threat of violence and a complete subordination and power over juniors by seniors. .
STOP THE MENACE: Activists protest against the death of Aman Kachroo, a medical student in Himachal Pradesh. Beneath every reported case of ragging lies an unimaginable pile of cases unheard, unattended and unsolved. .
Love thy juniors. Quite a simple precept. But when it comes to practice it fades out as a mere rhetoric and takes the shape of ragging in educational institutions. Interestingly, there exists an entrapping conundrum in the ragging discourse that now virtually everyone rejects the idea of defending ragging, but it is practised virtually everywhere with burgeoning impunity. Beneath every reported incident of ragging lies an unimaginable pile of cases unheard, unattended and unsolved. .
Ragging is seemingly one of the worst forms of human rights abuse that takes socially and legally unacceptable patterns of physical, sexual and mental torture and drug abuse. In some cases, the brutality is so severe that either the victim commits suicide or it results in death. For instance, Aman Kachroo, who died due to ragging at the Tanda medical college, was continuously beaten up and tortured for almost two-and-a-half hours. Though ragging conjures up an image of teasing, as it literally means, it is a social fact of an environment where there is persistent fear, threat of violence and eventually a complete subordination and power over the juniors by the seniors. .
Educational institutions, universities and colleges, being the active agents of social transformation, are at the core of the dynamics of institutional interactional processes of civil society. And civil society, which is not a homogeneous society, is a stage where the dialectics between the social and the political, domination and resistance and oppression and emancipation is played out. Therefore, not all but some juniors are targeted, as they are perceived as weak, vulnerable and pliant maybe in terms of gender, religion, caste, class and ethnicity. In the case of Aman, it was between modernity and local conservatism. Aman was smart, good looking, having a charismatic personality (won many prizes in the college academic and cultural activities) and, above all, he used to speak English with a tinge of accent (he studied abroad for sometime). All these qualities, particularly the last one, made him vulnerable and weak in the eyes of local goon-students. Being modern and progressive, I realised during my discussion with the medicos there, has its own flip-side, so much so that it renders the putative support structures of modern civilised society attack-structures for those who dare to think and do things against the conservative mores, culture and lifestyles. .
Educational institutions are a very significant part of the larger public sphere. Even colleges in remote areas are connected with the socio-cultural milieu of the metropolis and vice versa, thanks to the Internet and communication revolution. So these colleges cannot escape the psycho-social values prevalent in our society. Particularly two aspects of the value system, among many, need to be taken serious cognisance of: the idea of masculinity as it is practised and as it ought to be and secondly, the notion of institutional democracy as a lasting solution for the scourge of ragging. .
Those who indulge in ragging in educational institutions are a bunch of hoodlums, mostly male, who have their own shared sense of masculinity. For them, it is the way to attract girl students first and then the rest by exhibiting force, domination, hegemony, sadomasochism and, of course, body (a la Salman Khan) to establish themselves as superior beings just because they were born one or two years before the tormented. Perhaps, one can link these ideas of masculinity being reproduced as rites of passage in colleges with patriarchy and gerontocracy that promote and sustain the kind of masculinity which is aggressive, violent, intolerant, non-consensual and sexually charged. Instead, masculinity ought to mean men being gentlemen, tolerant, sober, consensual, creative by using mind and not floundering body and, above all, trustworthy. .
Students, like citizens, have equal claims to utilise the college space and facility because a) they pay for their habitat and studies in the college almost equally, b) they receive knowledge and wisdom together from the same teacher and c) all are bound in a shared small world by a sense .
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Understanding the performance penalty: HTTP vs. HTTPS Pete Mastin (Cedexis), Sam Richardson (Microsoft
Night terrors are a type of sleep disturbance – a partial awakening from a deep, non-dream sleep that occurs in the first two to three hours after going to bed.
In this blog, we’ll look at Java’s reputation as one of the most secure programming languages available today. We’ll go into detail about some of its most important security features, including bytecode verification, sandboxing, and autonomous memory management. By being aware of these aspects, developers may make the most of Java’s security advantages to create dependable and safe programs. Read More Details: medium.com/@kajaldigital8700/java-a-secure-programming-la...
The term NFTs is all over the place, taking the news headlines by storm and becoming the major talk of the crypto space. But you’re still very much confused about the whole NFT craze and feel entirely lost whenever the subject matter is brought up.
Well, this article is prepared for you to grasp what NFT actually entails as well as how to immensely benefit from it by understanding how to chalk out huge sum of money for yourself.
JUST EXACTLY WHAT IS NFT?
NFT is simply “Non-Fungible Token”. Yeah that’s simply what it is. But that makes no relatable sense to you right? So before we move on, try substituting the word “fungible” with “replaceable”. Therefore, NFT is a Non-Replaceable Token; A non-replaceable entity.
Let’s take for instance the worldly highly regarded popular Monalisa painting by Leonardo Da Vinci, there’s just one original copy of the painting and no other one right?
So even after taking a picture of the painting on your smartphone, it does not in any way affect the value of the original painting and neither does it mean that there is a duplicate of it. The painting can be called an NFT. It is not replaceable (Non-fungible).
Conservators at the Museo del Prado in Madrid recently discovered that this copy of the Mona Lisa was painted by a pupil working alongside Leonardo da Vinci.
NFTs could be art, collectibles, moments, and anything that is single, unique and original and as well can’t be duplicated.
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An extended plenary at UBCM 2026 focused on the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act.
rstanding DRIPA: Opportunities, Challenges and Implications for BC Communities
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View large. Note a very narrow band of focus, which in part runs up and around my brow ridge. This is not a crop; this is a 24mm macro @ f/1.8, so DoF is a very slim disc parallel to the lens, the front of which is about 4.5 in. (11.5 cm) distant from the center of DoF.
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Conference of Interfaith Understanding at Ramakrishna Mission New Delhi
The Aligarh Inferfaith Center in collaboration with the Ramakrishna Mission, New Delhi and Iran Culture Centre, Delhi organized a one day conference of interfaith understanding on the 10th of December, 2022 in the Vivekananda Auditorium of Ramakrishna Mission, Delhi.
Understanding the performance penalty: HTTP vs. HTTPS Pete Mastin (Cedexis), Sam Richardson (Microsoft
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I now want to get the bases the same thickness, to speed the Sled setup further on, maybe.
All these numbers are not that necessary, but I wanted a feel for how quickly the sander sands.
Photo by Derrick Crawford
One thing that makes NRCS Pacific Islands Area (PIA) so unique is the vast distances between its headquarters, its field offices and the people they serve. It’s also what makes it a highly complex environment to administer NRCS programs and assistance.
That understanding guided NRCS PIA leaders when they visited Guam and the Commonwealth of Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI), Jan. 8–13, 2024, as part of their quarterly leadership training. While the group met with officials from local governments, their conservation partners and NRCS clients, the mission was as much about meeting needs as meeting people.
They visited producers on the islands of Rota, Saipan and Tinian improving their farming, ranching and orchard operations with conservation practices ranging from agroforestry to deep litter piggeries to water catchment systems.
Side event at the fifth Global Meeting of the Mountain Partnership: “Understanding landscape and watershed management in mountains ”, 17.30-19.30, 12 December 2017, FAO HQ. During the side event, the new FAO publication “Watershed Management in Action” was launched.
The fifth Global Meeting of the Mountain Partnership – with its theme “Mountains under pressure: climate, hunger, migration” – was held at FAO headquarters in Rome, Italy, on 11-13 December 2017.
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