The Light Within

The Light Within

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On 22 November this year Touching Lives celebrates its fifteenth birthday! The organization has taken many strides in the field of Healing and Learning of children and their families. On the occasion of Foundation Day, the mentors, the founder and … Continued

Ready to Transform: A Mentor’s Letter to His Student

Ready to Transform: A Mentor’s Letter to His Student

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Dear Prashanth, To see a human being go beyond his own limitations and transform himself into a better human being, gives me a high. And it gives me the greatest joy in life! I am writing this letter to express … Continued

Learning About Learning

Learning About Learning

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Learning is a lifelong process. It need not be concrete. It need not promise you that what you have understood now will be the same until your last breath, or that your analyses that hold true now, will be the … Continued

How Observing Trees Can Help Us Draft an Eloquent Piece of Written Communication

How Observing Trees Can Help Us Draft an Eloquent Piece of Written Communication

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  Next time you sit down to write something, think of a tree! Yes, a tree. Be it an important email, a formal message, an article for your blog, the content for a poster, or a proposal for your business … Continued

Five Reasons why Reading is Awesome

Five Reasons why Reading is Awesome

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Reading is a voyage and the reader, a voyager. The earliest piece I remember reading, deriving a meaning out of and experiencing, was the poem Leisure by William Henry Davies. It was part of my 4th grade English literature textbook. … Continued

Five Ways to Create Happiness at Your Workplace

Five Ways to Create Happiness at Your Workplace

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  We all know that happiness can be elusive! How then do you create an idea that keeps slipping out between targets, deadlines, the fun work-lunches, the occasional drunken exploits at the nightclub, incentives, tours, holidays, the works. Just how … Continued

To Live By the Book: Touching Lives Publishing is a Venture into the World.

To Live By the Book: Touching Lives Publishing is a Venture into the World.

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Who says books are the best friends you can have? Well, whoever said it; truer words have not been spoken. They certainly make for great companions! Reading a good book is quite an adventure, and so is writing one! And … Continued

Moved by Movement

Moved by Movement

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What do we think about our body? Rather, do we actually think of our bodies? Rarely are we aware of how we give and/or receive a touch, a thought, an emotion, through our own bodies. Rarely are we aware that … Continued

What Einstein Did When He was Young

What Einstein Did When He was Young

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What did Einstein do when he was young? Before he became the living definition of what we call a Genius? Imagine that Einstein, who must have been a child once, a child with little hands, and a little head lit … Continued

The Extraordinary Intern

The Extraordinary Intern

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    These lines aptly sum up Zahra’s journey with Touching Lives. Not that she was an aimless wanderer before she joined Touching Lives. She had goals and was academically strong. By the time she finished graduation she already knew … Continued