Dan Brown: The Master Writer
With calm eyes and a mystic smile, the Monalisa sits patiently communicating the unsaid. Leonardo da Vinci’s masterpiece...
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ELTIS-SIFIL Blog:
Eltis-Sifil Symbiosis
- Sep 24, 2020
- 5 min
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.
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Eltis-Sifil Symbiosis
- Sep 22, 2020
- 4 min
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?
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Eltis-Sifil Symbiosis
- Sep 20, 2020
- 5 min
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.
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Eltis-Sifil Symbiosis
- Sep 14, 2020
- 2 min
‘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
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Eltis-Sifil Symbiosis
- Sep 11, 2020
- 4 min
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
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Eltis-Sifil Symbiosis
- Sep 9, 2020
- 3 min
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.”
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Eltis-Sifil Symbiosis
- Sep 5, 2020
- 4 min
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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Anagha Natekar
- Aug 31, 2020
- 3 min
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!”
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Eltis-Sifil Symbiosis
- Aug 29, 2020
- 3 min
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,
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Eltis-Sifil Symbiosis
- Aug 26, 2020
- 3 min
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...
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Eltis-Sifil Symbiosis
- Aug 24, 2020
- 3 min
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
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Eltis-Sifil Symbiosis
- Aug 20, 2020
- 4 min
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
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Eltis-Sifil Symbiosis
- Aug 18, 2020
- 6 min
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
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Eltis-Sifil Symbiosis
- Aug 16, 2020
- 4 min
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
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Eltis-Sifil Symbiosis
- Aug 13, 2020
- 4 min
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
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Eltis-Sifil Symbiosis
- Aug 10, 2020
- 3 min
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
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Eltis-Sifil Symbiosis
- Aug 6, 2020
- 3 min
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
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Eltis-Sifil Symbiosis
- Jul 30, 2020
- 4 min
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 27, 2020
- 7 min
Circe: The Sorceress of Aiaia
“The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for your senses to grow sharper!”
-W. B. Yeats
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