We must not forget our roots and origins as we move towards a modern lifestyle. Let us introduce Rangoli Gardens, a model village theme park in Jakkur, which is a sculptural journey into the cultural heritage of Karnataka’s villages! Rangoli Garden is a fascinating and close-to-realistic sculptural journey into Karnataka’s economy, food habits, cultural traditions, religious events, recreations, and living conditions.
We found innumerable paintings, pictures, visuals, and eco-parks envisioned and crafted artistically by exceptionally skilled people. The primary mission is to develop art villages into the finest tourist destination and promote familiar people’s heritage practices and traditions.
As you walk in, you can see various depictions of village life, like siblings playing in a house, a school, a cow shed, a mail carrier delivering mail, a panchayat, and home scenes from a regular day in a village. It is a great spot to take the kiddos and show them a different way of life that is also educational. They also have live Mehendi, Pottery and Tanga, so free up your weekend!
Bharathi K
Ekya School, Byrathi
Teaching staff
Communicating education is being transparent about the changes in educational systems, which helps build trust between parents and the school. Trust is essential to ensure parents are comfortable and confident in their child's educational journey.
The best school systems worldwide have drastically changed into revolutionary spaces that allow children to investigate and discover their true potential. For a long time, students were expected to perform well in theoretical exams on restrictive subject combinations irrespective of their talent, interest and ways of expression varying from one another. In contrast, the recent shift in education identifies each child as unique and embodies rich characteristics that, when rightly tapped, can be harnessed in the most powerful way. Instead of focusing on control and management, it is now possible to build a learning structure that assumes students as independent, resourceful and motivated learners.
Schools must communicate clearly to embrace this education revolution that enables learning to become a part of generation z and generation alpha lifestyles. This new structure of education which allows students to take responsibility for their learning, peers and others in the community, must be a part of constant messaging. Schools that have adopted this renewed way of learning through a dynamic pedagogy to state their purpose must establish a brand for themselves.
Every school has a unique value proposition, and when effectively communicated, it benefits parents to make informed decisions based on the needs of their children. Schools providing comprehensive information about their culture, academic program, extracurricular activities, and other value-based educational programs, such as outbound learning and service learning, allow parents to distinguish between schools to identify if a school is playing a critical role in a child's overall well-being.
The cognizant school systems around the world are changing, enabling children to be not national citizens but global citizens, expanding their idea of "Us" and "We". A radical change in the ownership from national to global creates a sense of oneness and therefore nurtures personal respect for others. From thereon, children tend to actively partake in the community and work with others to make the planet more peaceful, sustainable and fair.
The shift from conventional learning and quantitative assessment to experiential learning and qualitative assessment will help the younger generation develop core competencies that allow them to engage with the world around them actively. They will be equipped with skills to discover, evaluate and manipulate new knowledge.
In recent times where repeated marketing has created chaos, a lack of clarity looms over parents and children to decide upon a suitable school for them. Ekya Schools understand the importance of right communication, emphasising transparency and honesty about our children's learning areas, curriculum, student life, and other initiatives. Even our school's name, Ekya, is thoughtfully chosen. It is derived from Sanskrit and means unity and individuality. The word embodies the spirit of collaboration and togetherness while allowing space for an individual to grow. Our salmon pink fish logo portrays the same idea.
Our community of learners are spread across our campuses at NICE Road, Byrathi, JP Nagar, BTM Layout and ITPL. https://www.ekyaschools.com/
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Sanjana S Gangarapu Content Writer, MarComm
The sun cowered behind the clouds with no silver lining, and my owner popped yet another can of tuna to satisfy my gluttony as a spoiled house cat. Cats, such as myself, are, more often than not, generalised as a species that keeps a lid on things. On the contrary, my past lives have shaped me to have a slightly varying outlook on some stuff.
A cheerful, outgoing and social cat is a standpoint most people cannot imagine, but that’s simply because I’m different. The enigmatic phrase ‘A cat has nine lives”, well… such an inconceivable thing might be true in rare cases; trust an old man. The fact of the matter is that in terms of consciousness, memory and maturity, I am over 92 human years old. That means my knowledge and conscience as a creature are a step above most living things. The superiority complex and condescending approach to things come from my experience of having died eight times in my past lives already…and still having a coherent memory of it all.
In my incredibly strenuous life(or lives), I have learnt that time is not relative in the long run and is too fast.
Over nine decades of living seems long; it is, but one’s perception of days, hours and minutes becomes subjective. Time seems slow in dull moments and fast when you’re having fun, and it seems to fly past when absorbed in the moment and stops…when something extreme or tragic happens. Indeed everyone longs to listen to a philosophical feline now and then?
I have been living in a spun-out biography of my existence. On countless occasions, I cursed fate for being a special cat that remembered its efficacies and many tragedies of multiple lives. Unsurprisingly, this caused me to go blind sometimes. Blind to all the positive aspects and how that caused me to grow as an individual.
After all this blasphemous repetitive death, your mental fortitude gets an upgrade. Suddenly, you realise that you aren’t as profoundly affected. Cataclysmic things phase you less and less each time, and the phenomenon is psychologically unsettling. Being aware that ‘bad things’ no longer get you worked up instils a sense of self-concern and drives you insane at times.
Despite all my self-proclaimed ‘kitten-wisdom’, I never truly understood the fast-paced lives of humans. This species, which happens to be the apex of the modern food chain, has a highly obsolete approach. As a 1-foot-tall domestic creature, seeing beings almost five times taller than me that never ‘live in the present’ is weird. Millions of years of evolution to reach the current pinnacle of science and technology, and yet it’s their future or past that drives them. Human conscience keeps oscillating towards arbitrary people and their thoughts while chasing fame and trying to live an easier life. How do I make sense of a species this bizarre?
On occasion, I get a profound sense of gratification. It knows I am on my 9th life; it will be absolute when I die. My learning has given me rational knowledge beyond what most humans achieve in their entire life. This has helped me accept that I will no longer reincarnate in the body of another cat again; with my memories.
I now savour every bite of cat food, every ray of mellow sunshine and every ounce of affection from my owner. Why am I not sad that these small pleasures will soon cease to exist in my world? Maybe I’m just longing for liberation.
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