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MESSAGE
RECTOR MAJOR
My dear young people:
ALLOW YOURSELVES TO BE
CAPTIVATED BY JESUS
My dear young people all over the world, my
dear friends:
through this message and asking you, boys and
girls, to allow me to convey my best wishes of
holiness and happiness to each of you.
Since I cannot be present in more than one
place, I am knocking on the door of your hearts
And, as I think of you and of a message that
could be a reference point for youon the feast
Do you know something? I think I can very
well understand what Don Bosco felt when he
wrote to the boys in his houses and oratories
saying that he missed them and that he so
much wanted to be back among them. I can
assure you that I would like to spend the
beautiful feast of Don Bosco in every single
Salesian presence in the world and greet you
personally. And also pray together with you.
And also laugh and rejoice, sing anddance as we
usually do to express our Salesian happiness.
As St. Dominic Savio said, “We make holiness
consist in always being cheerful.”
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While you celebrate the beautiful feast of
Don Bosco, I shall be in Sierra Leone in the
continent of Africa, in the company of my
Salesian confreres who chose to remainthere
right through the most difficult moments of
the Ebola epidemic in order to be with the boys
and girls who lost their father and mother in
the epidemic and now have only us Salesians
for their family.When I meet them, I shall
tell them that the young people in Salesian
presences all over the world and our whole
Salesian Family think of them.
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of Don Bosco, I say this to you: My dear young
people, allow yourselves to be captivated by
Jesus.
In line with what I suggested to the whole
Salesian Family in all the world, I invite you to
let your hearts be “stolen” by the Lord.
My dear young people, do not be afraid of
letting the Lord become a very important
part of your lives. Do not be afraid of letting
him penetrate your hearts so deeply that you
cannot live without him.
Perhaps someone will ask me why I am
sayingall this. Well, in the first place, becauseI
love you, and I want all of you, boys and girls,
to lead full and happy lives; secondly, because
I know that Don Bosco would say this to you
just as he said it to his boys of Valdocco;thirdly,
and most importantly, because it isthe truth: it
is absolutely certain that with Jesus everything
is seen in its proper light.
Do not expect many in the society, city or place
in which you live to extend this invitation to
you. It is not fashionable. But, God’s love for
each of you, my dear young people, is not a
passing fad but a reality that reaches all places
and persons if they allow his voice to resonate
in their hearts.
presence and the imprints he has left in you,
and recognizing him as someone who truly
seeks you, is with you andlives in you.
• I propose that you live experiences that bring
you to a personal encounter with Jesus, an
encounter that will always fascinate you and
give strength to your lives.
• I propose that you carry on maturing a true
friendship with Jesus, a friendship that you
will strengthen in personal and community
prayer, and in the sacraments of the Eucharist
and Reconciliation.
• I propose that you ask God the Father to grant
you the gift of his Spirit sothat he will make
you choose to be decisively one of his own, one
of those who follow Jesus.
• I propose that you grow in a greater
appreciation of family, friendship, brotherhood
and solidarity with those who suffer.
• I propose something else that is precious,
viz. that you dare to take up the challenge of
accepting life as a gift and a service, and this
will certainly make you better and give full
meaning to your lives.
• I propose that you stopas long as you can
tolisten to yourselves, to enter your own
interior world andlisten to your inner voice.
And I would want all these things to reach
the point where they mature into your own
plan for your life, turning God’s dream into
reality for each of you because you know that,
come what may, that dream will always be a
guarantee of your happiness.
• I propose that you let yourselves be helped
in seekingGod so that you learn to look at
life as a blessing from God, marvelling at his
I warmly embrace you with sincere affection.
And here is what I specifically propose to you:
• I propose that, once you enter yourselves,
you seek thepresence of a God who is Love,
Life and Newness itself: I invite youto have an
experience of discovering and recognizing him.
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My dear young people, I end my greeting in the
way I began. May the Help of Christians, the
Mother who has done everything, accompany
you and be a safe harbour for you, and may
the Lord Jesus too accompany you, captivating
your hearts and your lives.
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GOSPEL STORIES
as you never heard before..
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MARIA AROKIAM KANAGA
Note: In this series on Gospel Stories as you never heard before, I stray into the Old Testament
occasionally, although my concentration is always on the Gospels. Some time ago I heard
an insightful TED talk on the story of David and Goliath, which I share with you in my own
words. Unfortunately I do not remember the author of this talk.
We always thought that the combat between
David and Goliath was an unequal one,
between a giant and an underdog. It was. But
the other way around! David was the giant and
Goliath was the underdog! Surprised? Here is
an interesting explanation!
Goliath was a giant of a man, probably nearly 7
feet tall and heavy built. He was a show piece
of his army, a scare-crow set up to frighten
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the enemies. Actually the intelligence of David
consists in guessing that he was in reality just a
scare-crow, not to be frightened of. There are
signs in the biblical narrative (I Sam 17), that
indicate that Goliath had more disabilities than
abilities and he was probably sick. Researchers
tell us that people who overgrow the average
human size could be afflicted by a disease called
Acromegalin, giantism or gigantism in simple
English. The growth is due to excess secretion
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of hormones from the pituitary glands that
makes them “head and shoulders” above the
others. But this has certain debilitating sideeffects, such as myopia, slow movement,
double vision and probably also slow wit. We
see signs of this sickness in Goliath.
The war takes place in the Shaffala Region on
the hill ridges between the Philistine Coast and
the Israeli hills of Jerusalem and Hebron, with
the two rival armies arrayed on two hills, with
a valley in between. Goliath has to be led by
hand by two soldiers to the central spot where
the single combat is to take place. He can only
walk slowly down a slope like an elephant. He
wears heavy armour of about 70 to 80 kilos
that weighs him down. He boasts too much of
himself, without an intelligent understanding
of why a small boy dares to come to fight
against him with no weapon in hand except
a sling and a stick. He is asking why David is
coming to him with sticks, while David carries
only one stick, a sign of his double vision. He
does not react till David comes rather close to
him. “Come to me” he shouts, because he is not
able to go far, or he does not see the enemy
well unless he is close, an indication of his
guarding his flock alone, often without his
brothers, and he probably defended his flock
from preying wolves and lions just by using
effectively his sling and stone. Ancient art
reveals pictures of slingers who could hit a
bird in flight with precision. In front of such a
“powerful” weapon and a trained slinger, the
defeat of a slumbering giant was a foregone
conclusion, as the story reveals!
Besides a fresh explanation of what actually
could have led to the defeat of Goliath at the
hands of young David, this story could carry
a powerful message for our spiritual life. We
might think that we are powerful due to our
prestige, size, protection and wealth. In stead
of being big, we may be just bloated, with all
kinds of extras that weigh down our spirit
and body and make us more vulnerable than
powerful, a prey to sickness and delusion. Like
a snail that carries its house on its shoulders,
we can be an easy prey to every enemy. On the
other hand a Condor is a swift, eagle-like bird
of Andean mountains that flies where it wants
and can hunt and is a symbol of freedom of
spirit. For the warfare in the spiritual world,
we need to be light, detached and able to
FOR THE WARFARE IN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD, WE NEED TO BE LIGHT,
DETACHED AND ABLE TO SOAR ABOVE EARTHLY CARES.
myopic vision. He thinks that David is coming
for an individual hand to hand combat. His
intelligence does not go farther than that. He
is like a heavy armoured vehicle and is strong
but slow and can reach only an enemy within
his reach, and is powerless against someone
who fights from far. He is practically a sitting
duck, at the mercy of David.
On the other hand, David is young, swift and
intelligent like a light combat aircraft or an
eagle seeking its pray. Unlike Goliath he runs
down the valley. He rejects the armour offered
by Saul, as he wants to be light. His weapon
is a sling. Slingers were important warriors
in ancient armies. They could send a stone at
a speed of some 100 miles an hour that could
literally bore a hole into the flesh and bones
of the target, like a bullet. David was used to
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soar above earthly cares. A young man with a
sling in hand is more powerful than a giant in
heavy armour. A condor or even a sparrow is
far superior to a snail or a tortoise tied to the
ground. The message comes to us beautifully
in the old pop song of Simon and Garfunkel,
popular in the 1970’s, known as El Condor
Pasa. Here is the lyric:
I’d rather be a sparrow than a snail; Yes, I
would, If I could, I surely would
I’d rather be a hammer than a nail; Yes, I would,
If I only could, I surely would
Away, I’d rather sail away, Like a swan that’s
here and gone
A man gets tied up to the ground; He gives the
world its saddest sound, Its saddest sound!
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SATHISH KUMAR THIYAGARAJAN
Play is the highest form of Research
S V Ravikumar Yadavilli, Founder and Managing Director of Play Spring, an organization that
helps children learn through play. He is an IIM Ahmedabad graduate turned into a primary school
teacher, early childhood educator, and a pioneer in integrating neuroscience into teaching and
learning methods.
1. Why did you choose to be a primary school
teacher?
The training I received at IIM Ahmedabad was
radically different. We learnt in a free, interactive
and inquisitive environment. I wanted this
to start early in education. To explore such
possibilities, I became a primary school teacher.
2. What happened thereafter?
I realized that for a holistic education, we require
curated learning environment with effective
stimulus and informed facilitators (teachers).
I learnt that ‘play’ can be an effective stimulus
and so I began to facilitate it in schools across
the country with the help of educational toys and
teacher training.
3. Play! What is the significance of play and
what do you mean by play?
I believe ‘play is the highest form of research’.
There are different types of play. We at PlaySpring
engage children in the classrooms through
‘directed-play’ using ‘educational toys’. With the
help of a facilitator, moments of excitement can
be evolved into moments of learning, which can
have long lasting effect on children’s minds.
4. What is the impact of PlaySpring in Schools?
We help students learn Math and English and
promote directed play for its intellectual, social
and psychological advantages. We complete the
prescribed content in 50% of time. For the first
time, teachers are able to objectively assess their
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students based on their skill sets with the help of
our assessment module.
5. Does learning take a back seat when
incorporated with play?
In contrary to conventional wisdom, we have
observed that learning gets accelerated when
integrated with play. This is proven in each of the
schools that we cater to.
6. What is your utmost concern?
To reduce the widened gap between the way
students are taught and the way they need to be
taught – in terms of both the scale and the intensity.
7. Why do you focus on early childhood?
Research in neuroscience and developmental
psychology says that a child’s life depends mostly on
the impressions he/she has in the formative years.
Pioneers of education like Fredrick Froebel, Maria
Montessori and Jean Piaget advocate the same.
8. What is your take on current education system
in India?
NASSCOM employability report states that 83%
engineering graduates and 75% of IT graduates are
unfit for employment in India. This is the state of our
education system in India. We have a long way to go
in making the children of today leaders of tomorrow.
9. What impact do you want to create in the
world?
I want to bring meaningful play back in every child’s
life so that they have the ability to experiment, can
handle failures, and learn the art of perseverance.
10. As an education entrepreneur what is your
take on numerous education products in the
market?
Initiatives in the education space must bear in mind
that every child is like a butterfly. Everyone may
not fly high but everyone is beautiful. We need to
nurture them with utmost care because each one
matters.
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SWAMI VIKRANT, SDB
HOW A
GETS
MURDERER
CHRIST’S
The documentary film, The Heart of a Murderer,
depicts the murder of a Clarist missionary of
the Indore diocese in 1995 and the subsequent
repentance and conversion of Mr. Samandar
Singh, the murderer. This film was the winner
at the World Interfaith Harmony Film Festival
2013. Rani Maria was a young Clarist social
activist of the Indore mission, Madhya Pradesh,
where the rich landlords, moneylenders and
middlemen exploit the poor tribal and Dalit
farmers and landless labourers. Revenue
officers and the police are handsomely bribed
and they side with the exploiters and hence,
there is no justice system. Might is right, is
the law prevailing in this situation. If any
social worker or activist raises voce against
this oppression and exploitation, they are
physically eliminated by hired hit men.
The Clarist missionary Rani Maria was a young,
fearless, zealous social activist who worked
among the poor tribals of the Indore mission
in the 1980s and 1990s. Against economic
exploitation of the poor tribal and Dalit
farmers and landless labourers, Sr. Rani set up
cooperative societies with N.G.O. assistance.
This was a severe blow to the moneylenders
and middlemen. They gave a severe warning to
Sr. Rani not to interfere in their business and to
return to Kerala. She told them that Indore was
her new homeland and the tribals and Dalits
her brothers and sisters.
Soon the hit men hired by the moneylenders
and the middlemen began to shadow Sr. Rani
in her movements. On 25 February 1995, while
Sr. Rani was travelling in a bus, a man with a
knife entered the bus and began to stab her
repeatedly and mercilessly. The shell-shocked
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co-passengers alighted from the bus and ran
in panic. Samandar Singh, the assassin, pushed
Rani out of the bus and continued stabbing
all over her body, in a frenzied fury. The
postmortem revealed 45 wounds. The Indore
diocesan authorities filed a criminal case and
soon Samandar Singh was behind bars. Sr.
Rani’s tomb soon became a pilgrim centre.
Cardinal Gracias of Mumbai described Sr. Rani’s
work as, “heroic example of siding with the poor
and the disadvantaged.” Many young Clarists
volunteered to replace Sr. Rani, ever ready
to bear witness to the infinite mercy of Jesus,
who too suffered martyrdom for espousing
the cause of the poor, the marginalized and the
outcasts, like the Samaritans, lepers and taxcollectors. In 2007 Rani Maria was declared a
Servant of God and her cause for beatification
was initiated at the diocesan level.
The Indore bishop and the Clarist Provincial
were in favour of granting pardon and showing
mercy to Samandar Singh who had spent over
ten years in prison. Besides, while Singh was in
jail, his wife got a divorce and his eldest son had
died. During his ten year incarceration, Singh
was desperate. None of the moneylenders or
middlemen came to see him or help him. While
he was in prison, he was plotting how to take
revenge on the man who pushed him to commit
the horrible crime. He could see only utter
darkness in the tunnel. But suddenly there was
a beacon light at the end of the tunnel, focused
on his face from an unexpected source. A
young Clarist nun came to visit him in prison,
heeding the call of Jesus: “I was in prison, and
you visited Me” (Mt 25:36). She was Sr. Selmi
Paul,F.C.C., the younger sister of Maria Rani.
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Only you Christians
can truly forgive. You
are a great example.
She had come to Indore in pilgrimage with
family members, some priests and Clarist
sisters to the tomb of the martyr Rani Maria
and for a mission of reconciliation. Pilgrimage
implies reconciliation. The unexpected but
spontaneous, holy embrace of Sr. Selmi melted
the hard heart of Singh. He was speechless but
sobbing and in tears. He prostrated before Sr.
Selmi and kissed her feet, like the sinful woman
kissing Jesus’ feet at the house of Simon, the
Pharisee. Singh was on cloud nine when Selmi
called him brother, ”bhai” in Hindi. She literally
meant it. Selmi told him to visit Rani’s father,
a cancer patient, who was waiting for him in
Kerala for a celebration of reconciliation.
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The Indore bishop and the Clarist Mother
General and Rani’s Provincial were all for
petitioning the M.P. government and governor
for remitting the prison sentence. The M.P.
Governor told the Indore bishop: “Only you
Christians can truly forgive. You are a great
example. Go; I shall do all I can to get Samandar
Singh released.” When Singh was finally
released, his first action was to hasten to Sr.
Rani’s tomb. He prostrated at the holy tomb,
kissed it and wept bitterly and said: “I accept
full responsibility for the heinous crime. For
this I will regret till my death.”Singh told the
diocesan authorities that his only desire in life
now was to become a Christian and to work
for the uplift of the poor tribals and Dalits,
following the foot-steps of saintly Sr. Rani
Maria. Singh’s conversion was Sr. Rani’s first
miracle. But before starting this new mission,
he wanted to meet Sr. Rani’s parents and
family members, to obtain their pardon and
blessings. The Clarist superiors and the Indore
bishop arranged this murderer’s pilgrimage
of repentance. Prostrating himself at the feet
of Sr. Rani’s ailing and aged father, Singh wept
bitterly and asked his pardon and blessings.
The father told him that henceforth he was a
full-fledged member of Sr. Rani’s family. Sr.
Selmi was the happiest person at this family
celebration, because it was her spontaneous,
Jesus-inspired embrace and kiss that touched
and melted the hard heart of the murderer of
her dearest sister. For Jesus, reconciliation was
a celebration as is evident from the parable of
the Prodigal Son. The local parish priest was
the chief guest at the family love-feast (agape).
From a beautifully framed colour photo, Sr.
Rani was smiling over the large number of
participants at the family feast to welcome the
additional member of the family, in the person
of Samandar Singh. God’s infinite mercy was
the leitmotif throughout this celebration of
pardon and acceptance. Before taking leave
of Sr. Rani’s father and family members, Singh
sad; “In my own humble way, I try to follow Sr.
Rani’s example of helping those who are less
fortunate than me, like tribal Christians and all
those who are marginalized.”
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RAVIKUMAR YADAVILLI
SATHISH KUMAR THIYAGARAJAN
Wake up
to Play
A
score and five years from now, when
there are lesser trees, lesser drinkable
water, fewer offline friends and more online
friends, fewer and smaller spaces, higher
pollution levels and lower food supplies, more
computers and lesser jobs, every day people
shall wake up to struggle hard and earn for the
fewer essential supplies left in the world to live
through the day. Unlike the current situation,
which presents opportunities in each sphere
in the name of jobs, the future world shall
desperately ask for leaders who can add value
to the world through function or aesthetics, as
most of the repeatable jobs get automated
soon. Such shall be the world we send our
students of today.
We understand the urgency of the
situation when we perceive it in
the context of techno-industrial
revolution that guided major
sectors of economy in the past
twenty years. Agriculture: Due to
shrinkage in the agricultural land,
non-availability of water and higher
pollution,
innovative
solutions
must be required to cater to the
ever increasing population growth
and protect the world from drought.
Manufacturing: Due to the rapid depletion
of natural resources, innovative solutions in
reusability and recyclability need to emerge
which may require a paradigm shift in terms
of how we view and use technology now.
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Services: We live in an age where assembly
lines in automotive manufacturing industry are
using high precision machinery to automate
even the most critical tasks. We are not very
far from the day where we don’t need humans
to help us in all the repetitive tasks. Hence, the
future world, for which we prepare our child,
demands high adaptability and extreme level
of innovation.
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The concern however is whether our social
and educational system prepares children
for the future. At the outset, we often fail to
understand that education is primarily a social
institution. Apart from formal knowledge
– language, history, science and arithmetic
- education facilitates socialization through
other things such as morals, values, and ethics.
It prepares children and young people for
entry into society. At the macro level, today,
education suffocates amidst social forces
such as politics, economics, and culture,
yielding to their pressures to ‘manufacture’ a
child amidst stringent codes to cope with the
present condition than to ‘nurture’his/her
growth in free spirit with a future vision. As
a result, at the micro level, children are stuck
in the groove and become innocent victims of
institutionalized learning, which encourages
uniformity and patterns that comply with the
majority.
In the matrix of learning contemporary
education and social system is alarming.
They develop insecurity and inferiority, lack
originality, and fear failure.
On the other hand, learning is much more than
what happens in a standard classroom in terms
of textbook knowledge, which is tested through
periodical assessments. We have a universe to
explore as part of our learning. The spheres,
in the matrix of learning where neither do we
nor do others have a clue about the mysteries
that unveil around us, broaden the scope of
education. It is rare to find schools that facilitate
discovery-based learning environments where
teachers together with students stride towards
the unknown. Moreover, a child is no more
to be regarded as inanimate clay vulnerable
in the hands of the potter. Since the dawn of
20th century, philosophers, psychologists
and pedagogists contend that a child actively
engages with the world around it ever since
its birth (during its different stages of growth)
and that he/she understands the world much
At the outset, we often fail to understand that
education is primarily a social institution.
education system, which is hinged on formal
curricula and its periodical evaluation,
functions only in those segments where the
teacher knows or at worst within the limits
of the textbook information. The rigidity of
the content influences the method too. The
learner, who should be encouraged to develop
his or her natural curiosity and instinct for
learning, is unfortunately asked to defer those
tendencies to conform to the institutionally
determined content, method, and pace. Most
parents accept this as part of the socialization
process and often ignorantly appreciate the
efforts of the school to ‘regulate/domesticate’
the ‘feral creativity’ of the child. Fed on this
academic diet, children grow up estranged
from their individuality, mostly feeling like
a survivor of the school system than a selfactualized graduate. The irreparable harm
that we do to the child through the existing
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differently than adults do. More often, we
fail to have an insight into their world and
thus obstruct their enthusiasm to explore
the world. Education, in this context, has a
converse effect on the development of the
child. In an integral and child-friendly learning
environment, a child plays, explores and
learns how to think in ways that better fit with
reality. Such an environment also develops
in the child qualities that include: initiative,
integrity, imagination, an inquiring mind, selfknowledge, interpersonal skills, and the ability
to feel and recognize truth on different levels.
Founded on our experience in interacting with
children in and outside schools, we believe that
children handle their future extremely well. In
one of the classes on properties of light, one
student asked a very strange question. We say
that “Light is a form of Energy”.If that is the
case, why light emerging from a bulb is not able
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Most parents accept this as part of the socialization
process and often ignorantly appreciate the efforts of
the school to ‘regulate/domesticate’ the ‘feral creativity’
of the child.
to move the chair we have in the classroom.
We discovered later that the question pertains
to quantum physics, more surprising was the
fact that students have a potential to catapult
themselves into learning things much faster
in a very organic way if the facilitator/ guide
creates the environment to inquire.
In this case, the student who had this question
is completelyready to enter the field of
quantum mechanics, even though he/she shall
be introduced to it at least 4 years from then.
Moreover, if he/she comes up with a technique
to move things (Read Turbines) using light,
imagine the impact it has on mankind. We
require such ideas and initiatives from
children and such initiatives never see light
in examinations where they are high stakes. It
requires openness from the teacher’s side to
see the right answers in what students say and
create a low stakes environment for them to
come up with innovate solutions for they are
extremely creative.
Students in different age groups play with
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different things as they grow. While the
student in my class was playing with the ideas
and asked a question “What if light moves
objects?”, students in the early years use
multiple avenues like Social Play, Constructive
Play, Fantasy Play and Games with rules. While
Social play helps students learn interactions
with fellow students there by developing
social and emotional skills, constructive play
helps students imagine manipulations in their
environment and creates avenues to create
their imagined world using blocks, sand,
clay, etc. As children manipulate the rules of
the world and learn to communicate using
play, they intrinsically develop the ability
to question the rules and frame new ones in
order to discover their answers which can turn
out into world changing inventions in the later
part of their life. Play in all its forms also makes
one live through failures and persevere, which
are not priorities of intellectually oriented
academic curricula in Schools.
As we move towards making each child a leader
by allowing him to experiment, fail, learn and
grow, right selection of toys to play with in a
school setup is equally if not more important
than understanding the science of learning
through toys. In Schools, where pedagogy
takes a front seat, selection of educational
toys tend to take the shape of instruments
with which a child can measure, or intelligent
microprocessors which make a child listen
to the right pronunciation of a word. These
methods of play make a child passive and give
him a message that learn it rather than play
with it to explore innumerable possibilities.
Toys like Froebel Gifts, which look very simple
yet extremely sophisticated for they can
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In an integral and
child-friendly learning
environment, a child
plays, explores and
learns how to think in
ways that better fit with
reality.
enable the child to create an entire world of
his, besides helping him explore (not learn)
different geometries, can make him explore
design elements of form and shape and can
also take the shape of elements in a rule based
game where children exchange pieces of the
gifts based on an exchange value.
In a nutshell, there need to be a broader
consensus on recognizing that education
is not just limited to completing syllabus
or rightly answering questions asked from
the completed syllabus. Understanding the
child from physical, intellectual, social and
psychological perspectives, schools should
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turn into places where students creativity and
ability to learn, experiment, and explore take
a front seat and syllabus, if necessary, need
to step back. For letting the students of today
take charge of their world tomorrow, our
responsibility as schools lies in exposing them
to the trends in the world, make them create
their own hypotheses, identify problems and
continuously innovate and feel happy for
every discovery one makes. We as a generation
of people passing the world to them may be
able to take the blame of depleting the natural
resources, but definitely not the blame of a
student who says that he became intellectually
handicapped because of your training. Lets
hope for wonderful days to come for the
students of today can make it possible if they
are let free to explore and discover in a safe,
congenial and stimulating environment. Carpe
Diem.
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Students from 50 schools
in Mumbai are striving to
be more environmentally
conscious and to care for
creation, so as to conserve
better our “common home”,
as Pope Francis calls it. The
Salesians are also involved
in encouraging those good
practices.Sacred Heart High
School, Vashi that has been
awarded the Greenest School
award by GreenLine - a
Don Bosco Environmental
organisation working in the
city of Mumbai. The award
took place on 5 March at Don
Bosco International School,
Matunga. The awards are
funded by Maschio Memorial
Foundation.
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Fr. Tom Uzhunnalil, Salesian
priest of Bangalore Province
was kidnapped on March
4 during an attack on a
convent and nursing home
run by the Missionaries of
Charity in Yemen. The attack
resulted in the deaths of four
Missionaries of Charity, two
staff members, eight nursing
home residents and a guard.
Fr. Tom was praying in the
chapel of the convent at
the time of the attack, and
was then kidnapped by the
attackers. The Salesians have
had a mission in Yemen since
1997. Salesians are the only
Catholic priests working in
the country. They provide
their services in four cities:
the capital of Sana’a, Aden,
Holeida and Taiz. Salesians
remain hopeful that their
priest kidnapped in Yemen
last week will be freed.
Prayers are being offered
throughout the Salesian world
for his speedy release.
The Salesian Province of IndiaTiruchyawared the thePascual
Chávez 2015 Prize in view
of
promoting sustainable
development initiatives and
innovative Salesian ministry
such as student Eco-clubs.
The award was presented in
Mumbai by Fr Maria Arokiam
Kanaga, Councillor for the
South Asia region, during the
Conference of the Provincials
of the region. The programme
began in 2012 and is active
in various districts of Tamil
Nadu. It is run by the Office of
Planning and Development of
the Province and has so far led
to the establishment of 163
Eco-clubs, with about 3100
student members.
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GREEN INITIATIVES AMONG
FR. TOM UZHUNNALIL STILL THE ECO-CLUB FOR
MISSING AFTER YEMEN
SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT KIDS
ATTACK
FR. LEON CRUZ- ONLY INDIAN SALESIAN MISSIONARY OF
MERCY
Father Leon Cruz belonging to the Salesian Province of
Mumbai is the only Salesian priest in India to be appointed as
a Missionary of Mercy by Pope Francis in this Jubilee year of
Mercy. He says of his appointment, “By God’s Grace and Mercy,
I would be happy to reach out to as many people as possible as
a Missionary of Mercy.”
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FR. VATTATHARA BLESSES A NEW VIA CRUCIS
On 11 March Fr Thomas Vattathara, Provincial of Guwahati, blessed the new Stations of the Cross
at the Shrine of Don Bosco of Gojapara. The ceremony was attended by thousands of faithful.
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Fr Ángel Fernández Artime,
Rector Major of the Salesians,
was visited by the Ambassador
of Panama to the Holy See,
Miroslava Rosas Vargas.
During the meeting various
issues were addressed, such
as the transfer of the casket
of Don Bosco to the Temple of
Don Bosco in Panama; and the
visit of the Rector Major to the
Province of Central America
and Panama, in August.
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THE RECTOR MAJOR
RECEIVES THE
AMBASSADOR OF PANAMA
PRESIDENT MATTARELLA
AUSTRALIA - 2016, A GREAT
CONFERS HONOUR ON SISTER YEAR FOR THE CAGLIERO
LAURA GIROTTO, FMA
PROJECT
On 11 March 2016 President
of the Italian Republic,
Sergio Mattarella, conferred
the honour of Knight of the
Order of Merit of the Italian
Republic on Sister Laura
Girotto, a missionary of the
Daughters of Mary Help of
Christians. The honour was
granted in recognition of
the tireless and courageous
work done by her and by the
FMA in the KidaneMerhret
Integrated Project in Adwa in
Ethiopia. Through this project
the Sisters cares for the most
needy primarily in education
and health, especially for
women and children.
This year 2016 promises to be
a great year for the Cagliero
Project,
the
missionary
volunteer programme of
the Salesians of Australia. In
recent weeks, several young
people and adults have begun
to collaborate in the Salesian
centres of the East AsiaOceania region, and among
them also, for the first time,
an entire family.All volunteers
of the programme have
been properly trained in the
months before departure.
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MEETING OF SALESIAN BROTHERS IN PHILIPPINES
On 12 March, the Salesian Brothers in the Northern Province
of the Philippines took part in a formation course at the Don
Bosco post-novitiate in Canlubang. The course was organized
by Raymond Callo, SDB, Coordinator of the Department of
Formation of the East Asia-Oceania Region.
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OPENING OF DON BOSCO COLEGIO TÉCNICO INDUSTRIAL IN 29TH DON BOSCO PRIZES
CALAMA, CHILE
Lorenzelli, have officially AWARDED
After more than a year of
work, the Minister of Mining
Activities, Aurora Williams,
and the Provincial of the
Salesians in Chile, Fr Alberto
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the
Colegio
Técnico Industrial of Calama.
This new work forms part
of the Salesian Educational
Network. It was built in the
Gustavo Lepaige district,
one of the most vulnerable
of the city. The opening
ceremony was attended by
various national and regional
authorities.
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The ceremony for the awarding
of the 29th Don Bosco Prizes
took place on 3 March, Spain.
The event was attended by
Teresa Pérez, Councillor
for Education, Culture and
Sports of the Government of
Aragon, Fr Stefano Martoglio,
SDB, Councillor for the
Mediterranean Region, and
civil and military authorities.
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COLUMN
IVO COELHO SDB
“GUIDE OUR FEET INTO THE WAY OF PEACE” (Lk1,79)
Being
CHRISTIAN in a time of
VIOLENCE
This morning, 22 March 2016, the news of yet
another terrorist strike, this time in Brussels.
Every day the concern and anxiety for our
confrere Tom Uzhunnalil, with blood chilling
rumours flying thick, rumours that we can
only hope are not true. And every day also the
images of thousands of men, women, children
camping in the muck at the gates of Europe,
making desperate journeys over land and sea,
in an attempt to enter a promised land.
How do we respond to all this? The old
continent is slowly turning to the right, as is
a good part of the New World. Islamophobia
is slowly but surely on the rise. I have heard
of Salesian confreres themselves expressing
themselves quite freely on Facebook, though
thankfully the provincial had the very good
sense to intervene. But once voice is very
clear: that of Pope Francis, who appeals to the
nations, at every occasion, to keep their doors
open to the human tragedy that is in act.
So how are we to respond? I can find only one
answer: we are called to respond as followers
of Jesus. Now is the time to truly live and
respond as followers of Jesus. This is no time
for discounts. This is the time to live our faith.
As followers of the one who taught us to
pray “Our Father – Abana!”, the first word
is fraternity. If we have one Father, we are
brothers and sisters. Pope Francis calls upon
Europe to open its doors and to keep receiving
the thousands that are pouring in – even at
the risk of being overwhelmed, of losing its
identity, of dying. How difficult that is to face.
And yet that is the mystery we celebrate and
the man we follow.
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The second word is joy. Joy is central to the
good news, to the following of Jesus, as Pope
Francis has been emphasizing time and again,
to the point of enshrining it forever in the title
of his encyclical: Evangelii Gaudium. “Where
there are consecrated persons, there is joy!”
we remember him saying. Joy, the birthright of
all the followers of Jesus, but most especially of
consecrated persons, not because they follow
more radically than the others, but because
they are called to be signs, icons, and beacons.
But how speak of joy in the face of tragedy?
Because joy does not exclude sorrow, as Kahlil
Gibran said so well. Because a joy that has no
place for sadness is a sorry thing, and hardly
joy. Because there is place for joy as well as
sadness in the heart of the Son, a sorrow that
sometimes bursts out into the open, as when
he weeps over Jerusalem, and at the grave of
his friend Lazarus, and in the Garden. So in the
face of tragedy and senseless violence, we learn
to pray every day for the ongoing gift of joy, a
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joy that knows how to embrace the sadness
and the suffering of the world, a joy that does
not shut its eyes to brothers and sisters in
need, a joy that knows how to descend from
lofty heights to the concrete, a joy that knows
how to go out of itself.
The third word is hope. Hope and joy meet: for
the joy that was set before him, Jesus endured
the cross (Heb 12,2). And here I cannot help
remembering James Alison who asks, what
was this joy that was set before Jesus? and
answers: “It was the possibility of delighting
forever in a huge celebration along with a huge
multitude of us human beings, people who are
good, bad, creative, depressive, but humans
and, for that reason, loved.” (Raising Abel: The
Recovery of the Eschatological Imagination,
1996) It is a joy that looks forward to good and
evil sitting together at the wedding banquet
in the kingdom. It is a joy that is able to say,
Not without you: “it will not be without the
others, the betrayers, the persecutors, those
gone astray; all are forgiven because they are
loved, because they are delighted in.” (Brendan
Lovett, For the Joy Set Before Us)
Some have thought that the recent document,
Identity and Mission of the Religious Brother
in the Church, is somewhat shallow because
it identifies in fraternity what is specificto the
vocation of the Religious Brother, and does
not seem to have profound things to say about
the consecrated dimension of his identity. But
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Venerable Simon Srugi
I ask myself: what could be deeper than the
fraternity that comes from and is a sign of the
Communion-Love that is God?
This fraternity is what our own venerable
Brother Simon Srugi lived: he who chose to
give medical treatment to one of the young
men responsible for the murder of his Rector,
rather than turning him in to the authorities;
he who spent all his life administering
medicine to the hundreds of Muslim men and
women and children who flocked to him from
as far away as Gaza. Brother Srugi is an icon
of fraternity for our times, and he knew, with
the instinct born of true faith, at a time when
no one had heard of interreligious dialogue
and long before Vatican II, that fraternity has
no bounds, that it extends in concentric circles
beyond the confines of our religion to embrace
all men and women, brothers and sisters, sons
and daughters of one Father.
Brother Srugi reminds us to pray for Tom,
and for the thousands of people of all faiths
whose lives have been turned upside down by
violence and tragedy. But Srugi reminds us to
pray also for the many young people and not
so young ones who are drawn and moved by
hatred and violence. And we pray for ourselves,
that in the face of violence we might refuse to
hate, that we might know always to be true and
courageous followers of Jesus. We pray that
the Lord guide our feet into the way of peace.
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MEDIA MATTERS
Ma degree
C. M. PAUL
prepares backpack,
citizen
journalists
Two years ago, an university in northeast India
launched a brand new program to prepare a
new breed of social media activists with an MA
degree in Mass Communication. The first batch
of that group of 12 students who put their faith
in the program will graduate in May end 2016.
The eight-year-old Assam Don Bosco
University (ADBU) based in Guwahati, claims
the new course entitled Convergent Media
and Technologies which started in July 2014 is
“one of its kind post graduate degree program
in backpack journalism to prepare citizen
journalists.”
Speaking about the value added components
of the course Jamia Millia Islamia Alumnus and
Asst. Professor at ADBU - Mr. Kaushik Bhuyan
says, “Today’s media professional needs to
connect with her/his audience across multiple
platforms - broadcast, mobile, on-line, social
media and other new platforms. The MA degree
course in Convergent Media and Technologies
in the Dept. of Mass Communication provides
this multiplatform environment to help
students build their skills - conceptual and
technical - to produce new digital content.
This is the only MA course where students are
taught to create multi-platform media content
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using professional Free and Open Source
Software.”
“In our technology dominated world, the
professions are multi-tasked and require
one to be an expert in more than one narrow
specialism,” says student from South Sudan
Shyjan Job who did one month internship with
EWTN (Eternal Word Television Network)
studios in Alabama, USA.
His two companions Sabin Sebastian from
Vishakapatanam and Daniel Thomas from
Thiruvananthapuram who spent one month
with Goodness Television in Kerala say,
“greater demands are made on modern media
persons to become a producer, a director,
a cameo actor, a scriptwriter, a copywriter,
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a video/audio editor, a PR campaigner, a
cameraman, a journalist and even an advocacy
enthusiast.”
“The MA programme,” says Aurelyne Mary,
from Shillong who had her internship at
Doordarshan Kendra Shillong “is designed
to equip one with a thorough knowledge of
the entire media spectrum from journalism
to radio and video production, traditional to
mobile media, the gamut of social media, citizen
journalism, development communication and
the world of public relations.”
Patricia Swer, Macdolina Shangpliang, Risa
Laloo and Everwin Emlang Khongwar from
Meghalaya joined Miss Aurelyne for internship
at Doordarshan, Shillong.
“For those who are not so social media savvy,”
suggests Steffi Soibam from Manipur who
did internship with Press Trust of India New
Delhi, “there is another world out there for
critical commentators to keep a tab on the
ways in which media reflects, represents and
influences the world.”
Jacob Malkias from Nashik and John Paul
Tirkey from Assam who did their internship
in a television production house at Indore say,
“The ADBU post graduate degree program
takes students through hands on exercises
in the glamour of the advertising gimmicks,
showing the way how a news story gathers
steam, and help students try their hands at
getting a video from script to screen, and cause
waves.”
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“The media platforms - Blog, Instagram,
Twitter, YouTube, Podcast, Facebook and
other social media networks are so varied,
pervasive, influential and fast changing that
it is a continuous challenge to keep pace with
the latest trends in media - related industries,”
tells Assistant Professor Dr Robi Augustine
Mundackal.
Head of the Mass Communication Department
Dr Machun Kamei says, “On-line admissions
for MA Mass Communication will open in May
- July for graduates in any stream.”
A bouquet of 10 programs in Mass
Communication include the following: PhD;
MA in
Convergent Media & Technologies; MA
in Development Communication; MA in
Public Relations; PG Diploma in Convergent
Media & Technologies; PG Diploma in
Development Communication; PG Diploma in
Public Relations; Certificate in Professional
Communication Skills; Certificate in New
Media and Citizen Journalism; and Certificate
in Media Management and Entrepreneurship.
Applicants will have entrance test and
interview (please check dates on www.
dbuniversity.ac.in) at ADBU’s Azara campus
in Guwahati, and selected candidates will start
classes July end.
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On
4th
March,
Sister
Anslem
(India),
Sister
Reginette(Rwanda),
Sister
Judith (Kenya), and Sister
Marguerite (Rwanda) were
attacked by two gunmen who
killed the four nuns along
with sixteen other victims,
including volunteers from
Ethiopia and Yemen. Each
victim was found handcuffed
and shot in the head. The
Missionary of Charity nuns
have been serving the nursing
home for the past 24 years in
Aden, Yemen. They worked
together with volunteers
at the convent’s home care
center, where they served
around sixty to eighty patients
of all religions. Yemen is in the
midst of a year-long civil war
which has claimed the lives of
more than 6,000 people.
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Marking the fifth anniverary of
the assassination of Shahbaz
Bhatti on 2nd March, a
Pakistani diocese has opened
a process of enquiry towards
declaring the late politician
a martyr. Bhatti, a Catholic
and the only Christian in the
Pakistani cabinet, worked
as the federal minister for
minorities and spoke out
against religious persecution,
and particularly the misuse
of Pakistan’s blasphemy laws.
He was gunned down by
members of Tehrik-i-Taliban
Pakistan while driving in
Islamabad on March 2, 2011,
after more than a year of
death threats. The Diocese of
Islamabad-Rawalpindi
has
begun collecting testimonies
about Bhatti to enquire into
his martyrdom and sanctity.
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NUNS MARTYRED IN
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PRO-HINDU GOVERNMENT TARGETING PEACEFUL DISSENT
IN GOA
The Jesuit Conference of Asia-Pacific Region organized the
three-day workshop on Buddhist-Christian dialogue, which
concluded March 7 in Bodh Gaya, the town linked with
Buddha’s enlightenment. The workshop, held under the
Interreligious Wisdom Sharing Program and organized by the
Indian Buddhist Jesuit scholar Lawrence Eucharist, dwelt on
the theme - ecology and religion. Jesuits from Korea, Indonesia,
Thailand and Japan and more than 100 Buddhist monks and
nuns from the monasteries in Bodh Gaya took part in the event.
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IT’S OFFICIAL - MOTHER
TERESA WILL BE
CANONIZED SEPTEMBER 4
After months of anticipation,
the date of Mother Teresa’s
canonization has finally been
announced. It falls on Sept. 4,
which this year will also mark
a special jubilee for workers
and volunteers of mercy. The
Vatican made the date official
during a March 15 consistory
of cardinals. Mother Teresa
died Sept. 5, 1997, and was
beatified by St. John Paul II
Oct. 19, 2003.
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PAKISTANI DIOCESE OPENS
CAUSE FOR MARTYRDOM
60 INDIAN NUNS PLEDGE TO
DONATE THEIR EYES
During a meeting organized
by the Claretian Fathers
of the Indian Institute of
Spirituality of Bangalore.
Sixty Indian nuns belonging
to various congregations
have pledged to donate their
eyes upon their death. Fr
George Kannanthanam the
organizer of “Project Vision”
said that this program aims at
raising awareness for vision
problems. India is home to a
third of all blind people.
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THE CATHOLIC CHURCH GREW FASTER THAN THE GLOBAL POPULATION IN PAST DECADE
The number of Catholics worldwide has increased by 17.8 % compared to the global population,
which increased by 17.3 %. From 2005-2014, the number of Catholics grew from 1.12 billion to
1.27 billion. These statistics were released by the Vatican in March and are contained within the
2016 Pontifical Yearbook, and the 2014 Annuarium Statisticum Ecclesiae.
THESE SEMINARIANS ARE
BEING ORDAINED – IN A
REFUGEE CAMP
After their seminary in
Qaraqosh was dissolved
following a brutal ISIS attack in
2014, four Iraqi seminarians
chose not to give up after being
forced to flee, but to continue
their path to the priesthood.
All of them formerly studied
at St. Ephraim’s seminary
in the mainly Christian city
of Qaraqosh, which is now
under the control of ISIS. The
four seminarians were sent to
finish their studies at the AlSharfa Seminary in Harissa,
Lebanon. The four men chose
a church in an Erbil refugee
camp for the Ordination and
were ordained on 9th March
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On 19th March Pope Francis
launched his new INSTAGRAM
account with a tweet in which
he said: “I am beginning a new
journey, on Instagram, to walk
with you along the path of the
mercy and tenderness of God.”
Founded in 2010, Instagram
has
approximately
400
million users worldwide and
shares photos and videos with
a community of followers. The
launch of the Pope’s Instagram
account will increase his
substantial presence on social
media platforms. Recently
Instagram’s CEO and cofounder Kevin Systrom met
with Pope Francis at the
Vatican in a private audience.
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POPE FRANCIS LAUNCHES
“FRANCISCUS” INSTAGRAM
ACCOUNT
POPE ANNOUNCES
PALESTINIAN AS WINNER OF
INTERNATIONAL TEACHING
PRIZE
Hanan Al Hroub , a Palestinian
school teacher on 13th March
became the recipient of a
US$1m international award
for her work with children.
Pope said in a pre-recorded
video message that Hanan Al
Hroub is the winner of the
Global Teacher Prize, awarded
by the Varkey Foundation.
Hroub grew up in Bethlehem
refugee camp where she
regularly witnessed violence,
she now teaches at a school in
the town of al-Bireh, about 14
miles north of Jerusalem.
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CARITAS SPAIN IS HELPING MORE THAN 2,000 WOMEN LEAVE PROSTITUTION
Caritas Spain has helped more than 2,200 women to exit
prostitution and is constantly fighting against human trafficking
and supporting immigrants. Caritas Spain representatives
presented their document entitled “Prostitution As Seen in
the Experience of Caritas” at a recent press conference held at
its Madrid headquarters. The 80-page document is based on
Caritas’ 30-year experience in rescuing the women.
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SPECIAL FEATURE
DR. C. T. GEORGE
OLD AGE
IS THE LAST
STAGE
About
retirement:
Retirement
from
employment is a dated event. So it can be
planned but most importantly it has to be
planned to meet the problems originating
from the sudden reduction of monthly income,
absence of perks and privileges, simultaneously
increase in expenses, availability of more time
at disposal and the need to attend to more
and more personal and social commitments
and engagements in and around. To retire
is to inspire the self. Retirement demands
rescheduling of routine life because there is
more time and less money. In this context,
the idea of taking up a suitable job is relevant.
Work-life had a strict discipline and a proper
time management. These patterns are to be
reworked and rearranged to suit the retired life
schedule.
Some cardinal thoughts: Living long is a blessing
but living long healthy, happy and helping is
more significant and a great fortune indeed.
Money is needed for our own needs but too
much money beyond our needs belong to others
who are in dire need. Nothing can be carried by
a dead person to his final resting place. At the
same time it should be remembered that some
living persons are required to carry the dead
body to be disposed off.
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Old persons should be extra careful while
talking and dealing with youngsters because
the young are short on courtesy and long on
calibre.We need to acknowledge the generation
gap and it has to be understood in the right and
positive manner.
Ageing: The ongoing process of becoming old
is called ageing .It is nothing to be afraid of
since we have no means to stop it.
Pension and medical care: Old age pension
should be given to all those who are aged 60
and above if they are not getting pension
from their previous employer or from
establishments or from government or not
having any means to survive.
Normally by the age of 75 a person will become
increasingly frail. It is a condition inviting
serious mental and physical debilitation and
desperation. They are more prone to diseases,
syndromes and sickness than others mainly
owing to immune deficiency. Appropriate food
is an immune booster. So consult your family
doctor and get prescription to follow.
Safety, security and functional efficiency check
List: The most common, serious and immediate
cause of death of an aged person is due to
falling down uncontrolled and unexpected.
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Hence the precautions are:
- When inside any room do not lock from inside
- Arrange to fix handrails, grips inside the
above rooms so the aged, when required can
hold on to those strong rods and avoid the fall
- Remember toilets, bathrooms are always
slippery despite extra care
- While sleeping be aware that you are lying on
a cot above 2 or 3 feet from the floor so arrange
for suitable safety measures.
- Keep personal hygiene to the best level
possible and start and close the day by invoking
apt prayers to God almighty
- Before starting for shopping, prepare the
list of items to be purchased, arrange them
serially and systematically in order to avoid
unnecessary walking up and down. Check the
price and carry only sufficient money.
- Have a checklist prepared for the day-to-day
tasks to be performed on each day.
- Eat to your need, the food prepared at home.
- Carry a copy of photo identity card withyour
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name, contact address, emergency contact etc.,
- Make sure to reach the bus stand, railway
station, aerodrome well before time and
peacefully go through the formalities
- Carry your mobile phone and inform all
concerned your whereabouts in time.
- Carry the essential medicines in sufficient
quantity
- Carry hard cash even though you have ATM
card/s.
- Avoid walking in busy and crowded roads, do
not expect courtesy, respect and consideration
because the moving public has no time for
these etiquette en-route, currently roads,
sub-roads, lanes and by-lanes are not meant
for pedestrians because these traffic lines are
overloaded with vehicles of all types.
- If you happened to go to an unfamiliar place,
it is better to pre-arrange the services
The above-cited checklist is illustrative in
general, a comprehensive list will run into
pages. Each person, according to one’s stature
can prepare appropriate list and attempt to
sincerely adhere to it.
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A. J. FRANK
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