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ELTIS-SIFIL Blog:
Dan Brown: The Master Writer
With calm eyes and a mystic smile, the Monalisa sits patiently communicating the unsaid. Leonardo da Vinci’s masterpiece...
Eltis-Sifil Symbiosis
Sep 26, 20204 min read
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Teachers from the Reel Life
Teachers have a profound influence on how our life turns out. We all have our favourite teachers. These teachers show us the path.
Eltis-Sifil Symbiosis
Sep 24, 20205 min read
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Salut! To all the Thomas Carters & Bruce Waynes around & within
I have always opined that grades get you a job and your attitude gets you a meaningful life. Why so philosophical?
Eltis-Sifil Symbiosis
Sep 22, 20204 min read
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Beyond classroom learning
The best teachers don’t give you the answers. They just point the way and let you make your own choices, your own mistakes.
Eltis-Sifil Symbiosis
Sep 20, 20205 min read
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‘Zooming’ into Online Teaching
As I log on to my online class, my ears wait for the distinct ‘ding’ that signals the arrival of a student, and as I click ‘Admit’, my mind
Eltis-Sifil Symbiosis
Sep 14, 20202 min read
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Has Social Media Increased the Use of Slang in Communication?
A sharp DING! screeched in my ears, and my eyes shot open. The source of the sound was not a gunshot, nor an obnoxious construction worker
Eltis-Sifil Symbiosis
Sep 11, 20204 min read
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Mona Lisa Smile: A Review
“Stop talking, and look. You're not required to write a paper. You're not even required to like it. You are required to consider it.”
Eltis-Sifil Symbiosis
Sep 9, 20203 min read
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It’s what you learn after you know it all that really counts
I believe that each encounter - good or bad is priceless. We are all aware that experience is the best teacher...
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Sep 5, 20204 min read
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Hinglish: The new language of the youth?
“He was trying to पटाओ me, yaar!”
‘‘मैं आज सोच रही थी, आधा semester खत्म हो गया; half the semester is gone!”
Anagha Natekar
Aug 31, 20203 min read
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A FREE BIRD
The only sound that could be heard in the hall room was the tick-tick of the clock and wooing of the table fan. It kept rotating to and fro,
Eltis-Sifil Symbiosis
Aug 29, 20203 min read
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Lakhi, Free for Now and Ever
This story is nothing you may have heard before. It has no hero, no chronological dates and no battlefield...
Eltis-Sifil Symbiosis
Aug 26, 20203 min read
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The Child Finder: A Book Review
Three years ago, Madison Culver disappeared from a forest in Oregon while choosing a Christmas tree with her family. Her family is harrowed
Eltis-Sifil Symbiosis
Aug 24, 20203 min read
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Unsung Heroines
I saw a grand statue on a traffic island, and was amazed to see that it was a statue of a woman warrior on horseback with a sword in her han
Eltis-Sifil Symbiosis
Aug 20, 20204 min read
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A Thousand Splendid Suns: A Book Where the Daughters are the Sunshine!
Khaled Hosseini’s second outing in 2007 is a captivating tale encapsulating the lives of Mariam and Laila, two women born 20 years apart mar
Eltis-Sifil Symbiosis
Aug 18, 20206 min read
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Understanding Emancipation from the Perspective of a 19th Century Philosopher
The objective of education is the freedom of mind which can only be achieved through path of freedom.’ Rabindranath Tagore
Eltis-Sifil Symbiosis
Aug 16, 20204 min read
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Not A Review But A Recommendation
“Independence, Freedom and Liberation,” are pretty heavy words, aren’t they? I have come across these words for an uncountable number of tim
Eltis-Sifil Symbiosis
Aug 13, 20204 min read
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Freedom From The 'Cage'
“Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with shades of deeper meaning”- Maya Angelou
Eltis-Sifil Symbiosis
Aug 10, 20203 min read
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It never rains but it pours...
“Año bisiesto, año siniestro” (Leap year, sinister year) is how the leap year is characterised in Spanish. They couldn’t have said it any be
Eltis-Sifil Symbiosis
Aug 6, 20203 min read
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Magical realism and JKR the Great
“It’s our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are,
far more than our abilities.”
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Eltis-Sifil Symbiosis
Jul 30, 20204 min read
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Circe: The Sorceress of Aiaia
“The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for your senses to grow sharper!”
-W. B. Yeats
Eltis-Sifil Symbiosis
Jul 27, 20207 min read
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