On Feb 3rd, Google launched the "Internet Bus Project". Simply put, this is a campaign to take the internet - quite literally on wheels - right to people in the smaller cities in India who are still not participating in what is now part and parcel of our lives in urban centers. The campaign has been launched in Tamil Nadu where the Bus will visit 15 towns in the next 45 days. read more

In case you have not caught this on the news wire, India is all set to launch a $7 or Rs. 500 laptop. read more

BRAILLE PRESSES IN INDIA

The link demonstrates a live discussion widget designed for edublogs. It is of particular importance to India, as it incorporates the google transliteration facility for typing indic scripts for Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam and Kannada.

So go ahead and add the live interaction element to your blogs.

A very comprehensive website on anything and everything to do with flowers of India - types, botanical names, flowering tress, etc. Great resource for teachers!

(Cross-posted on Education Musings)

The Government of India launched the Sarva Shikhsha Abhiyan (Education for All) program in 2003. read more

I dont know if anyone has already listed this site here, but this is a very good resource for History on European explorers who came to India. It is called THE EUROPE-INDIA MARITIME HISTORY PROJECT (which seems to include Indians too as seen in the 'interviewees' list).

I liked the timeline section. The Internet Resources section also has many good history websites listed.

(I was not able to visit educatorslog regularly - nice to see lots of new posts and links and videos and people. I liked the ideas for geography with Google Maps and Google earth)

A new and unique translation in Hindi of the ancient Indian Rig Veda (ऋग्वेद) has recently been published - the first volume of a four-part series. This covers the third, fourth and fifth mandalas of the sacred text and is generally dedicated to Agni - the sacred fire. This volume also includes the sacred "Gayatri Mantra". read more

Independence Day

India of the reaching out
Reaching forth
Reaching in
Reaching up and down and……
Over
Where my people have either too much or too little
O India

India of the bad roads
And wide, open spaces
Environmentally virgin and raped
Polluted, happy, sad, poor, rich
"Dvd, vcd, cd, id, icecream"
No other place has such sign boards
Full of poems
Where else but in India would I be able to understand
That clichés and mistakes and typos are also part of the attempt
And lead to inte read more

I wrote a skit and a poem for this day. My skit was performed at Asha Kiran special needs school by special needs kids for special needs kids. I'm really proud of this.

I'm attaching the skit for your reading pleasure, feedback and also for use - because I believe copyright is the right to copy.