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when failure matters more than its success

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Memories with grandpa / recuerdos con el abuelo

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Kabi and parents

My dear friend, When you are so much interested in my boy’s S.Muthian’s affair and progress, I do not want to stay in the way. You are at liberty to detain him to your complete satisfaction. May God in is mercy shower his blessing upon you, for you deserve them all for your philanthropic spirit and your inestimable sacrifices. Maybe Kabir did refer to a voice of a parent of a pupil as a reaction…

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No.2 Being a student I

No.2 Being a student I

NO.1Address by Prof. Humayun Kabir at Radio Theatre “Gopal Bagh”, Coimbatore9.9.1948 Well, what is the education, outside, to draw your attention?Generally in India there is a very great lack of discipline. You must have discipline.Unless you have discipline, you can not do anything at all. Why is it that amachine works so well? Because in a machine every part does exactly what it isexpected to…

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pavilion surprise

Walking into this special Pavilion, one saw a huge pile of machinery, the best “friends” of Mr. Naidu! PAVILLAGE FRIENDS WITH BENEFITS Why, it is even said, that Mr Naidu himself is more “a machine” than “Man”, but that is what his enemies say!Here in this Pavilion one saw a few varieties of aero engines – Rolls-Royce, Pratt and Whitney – and many other types. RICH MAN, RICH CARS, RICH PETROL…

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writing about objects

I am in receipt of your letter which was written with a real feeling. Till recently I had a workshop for training such interested students in different sections. But the unfortunate circumstances made me to leave them or close them at a stroke. Still I have a workshop but not in a very big building or equipped with a large number of machines or with enormous tools. I took out some words and…

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imitate someone reading by placing a mic close to your hand

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Somehow Darwin’s notebooks seem to have reappeared in the library they got stolen from twenty years back. The librarian looks happy. I wonder how important they are for tracing an individual meaning in his work?