morning_rain   
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Post ID: #PID Posted on: 19-04-08 08:40:05

Quote:
Originally posted by puttoo

And you thought "Juno"was a western problem http://www.telegraphindia.com/1080113/jsp/7days/story_8776286.jsp</font>


Interesting article.

Do schools in India teach sex education?


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morning_rain   
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Post ID: #PID Posted on: 19-04-08 08:48:00

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Originally posted by Fido

I wonder how much insulated from this environment can we raise our kids in - something which we value in our parents and the society we were brought up in .




I dont know if you are writing rhetorically or not, but this is a common theme with many people.

I dont understand - if people come to Canada/US or whatever to give their children better lives and opportunties, then why insulate them from the environment.

On the other hand....you hear so much in the media about violence in schools, bullying, drugs,etc... it makes one wonder if its even WORTH having children today!!


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jake3d   
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Post ID: #PID Posted on: 19-04-08 13:06:22

Quote:
Originally posted by morning_rain
On the other hand....you hear so much in the media about violence in schools, bullying, drugs,etc... it makes one wonder if its even WORTH having children today!!



Can you magine what parents in the 60's went through with their kids? Every generation has its own rebellion and some of the problems you cited were probably worse in some ways, especially for minorities. Also joining communes/cults and drug use was a prevalent theme back then. Many of those hippies did very well later on in life once they grew out of that phase. If anything that generation changed the way people looked at many things. Be it civil rights, feminist movements, gay rights etc. These 'baby boomers' now are in leadership positions in most of the political, industrial, cultural and academic areas in the west.

All the stories about divorce, domestic abuse, betrayal etc does not mean marriage/spouses are not 'worth' it. Same can apply to having kids, right?


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prasad_vara1   
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Post ID: #PID Posted on: 08-05-08 07:04:33

It is true that very few immigrants got success and most of the people ended up doing odd jobs. This happens not only with people with Indian experience, but people with US experience also suffer due to Canadian employer’s attitude.

I hv seen here some people arguing that this is basically because of poor communication skills of Immigrants (Say Indians). But if it is true, then why same guy is getting Job in USA?

No point in wasting our time doing odd jobs and better to say good bye to Canada



Innocent_heart   
Member since: Mar 08
Posts: 88
Location: Ottawa

Post ID: #PID Posted on: 09-05-08 18:40:20

Read the excellent story(short) regarding same topic by

Dr. Anil Prabha Kumar a professor at William Paterson College in New Jersey

here is the link(for story)

http://www.abhivyakti-hindi.org/kahaniyan/vatan_se_door/2007/diwalikishaam/dksh1.htm

this line really touched me

"हर चीज़ की कीमत होती है, अमरीका आने की भी �क कीमत है''

-(Har chiz ki Ek kimat hoti hai, America aane ki bhi ek kimat hai)

that expalins other side of story even if your kids became Doc/Engineer or so called sucessful but at what cost.


Edit :-
another touching line

उम�र सिक�कों में तो नहीं मिलती, पता ही नहीं चला कि क�या पाने के लि� क�या और कितना दे दिया?

-(umra Sikko me to nahi milti, pata hi nahi chala ki kya paane ke liye Kya aur Kitana de diya ?)

PS: sorry if you can't see hindi font(check your browser setting,change it to "Unicode", View->text Encoding->unicode UTF8) that's why I also wrote the same by using english alphabet.



febpreet   
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Post ID: #PID Posted on: 11-05-08 11:53:25

Reading the above store right now. Look like pretty good.

Thanks for the story. If you know the sites something like these please let me know. I am into hindi reading.



Innocent_heart   
Member since: Mar 08
Posts: 88
Location: Ottawa

Post ID: #PID Posted on: 13-05-08 22:00:04

Quote:
Originally posted by febpreet

Reading the above store right now. Look like pretty good.

Thanks for the story. If you know the sites something like these please let me know. I am into hindi reading.



similar site like "Abhivyakti" are

1) http://www.hindinest.com/index.htm
2) http://www.bharatdarshan.co.nz/

in all 3 site go to archieves and there are lots of story, novel, Essay in hindi.
I normally like Vatan se Dur section in Abhivyakti.

some other hindi site

1) http://www.hindini.com/hindini/

on feb 23 there was excellent but controversial artical- "Bhartiya Nari Mukti Rag" :D written by some NRI

2) http://www.akshargram.com/


All the Hindi News paper(in one page) you can find it here

http://www.indiapress.org/index.php/Hindi/400x60




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