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A Recapitulation Of My Forgiveness Journey

  “Wisdom is knowing I am nothing, love is knowing I am everything, and between the two my life moves.” — Nisargadatta Maharaj Forgiveness is the letting go of blameworthiness and resentment with regard to anybody who has wounded you,
April 25, 2019

Woman Of Vision- Bakes By Bella

Entrepreneurs are disruptors by nature: progressive thinkers, impatient with limitations, people who go their own way – and not on the roads generally travelled. Melissa Dharmadasa, the creator of BakesByBella, highlights this when she says: ‘The mind is a

Why We’re All Slow Learners?

  If there is such a thing as a ‘slow’ learner, does it mean there are ‘slow’ teachers, ‘slow’ trainers, ‘slow’ Head Masters, ‘slow’ officials, ‘slow’ institutions, ‘slow’ systems? It’s amazing to see how many people use the term ‘slow’ learner without

Poise By Purpose

I detest, very much, that word faith. I do so because of the way the word is abused, to convey anti-intellectual, illogical, and a blind acceptance of a conventional mode of thought without any further examination or probing. But I

Jolie-Laide

My body’s first betrayal was not its own. Never abuse, not when it is the nagging nasty reality of a woman’s world that people will tend to sit too close, to encroach into your space, their hands lingering, yet

The Gentlest Activist

  Surviving And Thriving In Times Of Crisis If we liken ourselves and our lives to ships on the ocean, it is a challenge at times to keep afloat, let alone to successfully navigate the troubled areas of life

A Minority Laugh

  To keep our guesthouse refreshed, a team of three used to enter my room every day. Usually, it consisted of two girls and a boy. Or, you could call them women and men. They are still in their youth. Young women

Power Of Digital Sisterhood

  In the last 6 to 12 months, several all-women’s groups have been created on digital media platforms. In the U.S., Jada Pinkett Smith’s ‘Red Table Talk’ brings together three generations of women – Jada herself, her mother and her daughter

Women Together- Empowerment In Action

  Shey Perera, in 2016,  founded United Humanitarian Aid, a small non-profit charity that helps any and everyone in need. It started by collecting used goods in working, usable condition and donating them to people in need: helping people clear off

Autonomous Women’s Group Of Thessaloniki

KATINA MAGASINE 1985-1995 The Autonomous Women’s Group started its activity in 1985 in Thessaloniki, a city with a very vibrant student life and a lot of energy. Young women, mainly University students, who already had an active role in women’s matters,
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Only With Our Consent

Some of the most crucial of choices include the decisions we make about our significant others and our love partners. In a previous era, I would have said husbands and husbands only, but today there are many kinds of categories of

Redefining The Classroom

People who criticise teachers tend to overlook the fact that the typical government school teacher has a challenging situation – a shifting population of children who are at different levels, with home conditions that do not always support education, and with

We Write Your Rights

The Challenge Of Creating Educational Material For Women Refugees As academics dealing with real-life educational issues with important socio-political dimensions, we often need to struggle in order to find a balance between our allegiance to our research goals, our ideological
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