At Vipassana International Academy, Igatpuri:

At Vipassana International Academy, Dhammagiri, Igatpuri:
Attended 10 days Vipassana meditation course at Igatpuri. Spent 12 most exciting (though silent) days of my life. What an experience! I successfully observed “A Complete Noble Silence” (Arya Mouna- no talking, no newspapers, no TV, no cell phones, no music n so on) throughout the 10 days! Ya, I survived without my phone/book/laptop/internet/family/friends/pen n paper for 10 whole days! By the end of the course, I almost forgot what my netbook n phone looked like! They also got some well-deserved rest!
The location too was awesome. It was surrounded by a thick forest n hills and there was a giant Pagoda in the center. All the thoughts of the meditators were reflected against the hills and bounced back in pure form. Vipassana is science based and has no religious association. It is a technique to observe sensations on your body and become neutral to both happy / sad sensations.Yes, everyone should experience it at least once in a life!

A Talk on “English Medium Education in Rural Schools of India" at Anandi Public School

A wonderful day with parents, students and teachers of Anandi Public School. Given a talk with PPT presentation on “English Medium Education in Rural Schools of India: Need to be Injected with New Dynamism and Motivation”

Can Indian authors afford to pursue writing as a full time career?

Can Indian authors afford to pursue writing as a full time career? Here's a very good article which appeared in a very popular e-magazine STORIZEN. You can catch this article on pages 10-15 at http://issuu.com/storizen/docs/feb2014 

Pre-Ph.D. Submission Seminar at PG Dept & Research Center in English, Mahatma Gandhi Mahavidyalaya, Ahemadpur

At Pre-Ph.D. Submission Seminar held at PG Dept & Research Center in English, Mahatma Gandhi Mahavidyalaya, Ahemadpur on 18/03/2014. Also given a Guest Lecture on Poetry to PG students of MGM. Wonderful presentations by my research scholarsand grand organization by Dr. Nivargi and Dr. Jogdand.

 

 

  

Ph.D viva-voce: As an external referee at SRTM University.

Conducted Ph.D viva-voce of Mrs. Kajal Bhandari (Now Dr. Kajal Bhandari, Aurangabad) as an external referee at SRTM University, Nanded on 24/2/2014. Her defence was wonderful. Principal Dr. Vibhakar Mirajkar (Her research supervisor), Dr.Ajay Tengase (Dean, Faculty of Arts and Chairperson), Dr. Mukta Mahajan (Professor, Jalgoan University and external referee of another candidate of Dr.  Mirajkar), Principal Dr. Vaman Patil, Dr. Mannikar participated in discussion. A wonderful intellectual meet and experience. Congrats to both candidates and research supervisor.

Receiving “Dr.Kausalyayan Puraskar” declared to my elder brother Professor Dr. Sanjay Nawale for his contribution to Hindi translation

राज्य पातळीवरील अनुवादीत  ग्रंथसंपदेसाठी दिला जाणारा “उत्कृष्ठ अनुवादकाचा" माझे जेष्ठ बंधू डॉ. संजय नवले यांना जाहीर झालेला “डॉ भदन्त आनंद कौसल्यायन पुरस्कार” सकाळ वृतपत्र समूहाचे मुख्य संपादक व जेष्ठ साहित्यिक मा. उत्तम कांबळे यांच्या हस्ते,  माझे बंधू  डॉ. संजय कांही तांत्रिक कारणामुळे उपस्थित न राहू शकल्यामुळे यांच्या अनुपस्थित त्यांच्या वतीने  मी स्विकारला. सर्वांचे आभार. लातूर, दिनांक २3/०४/२०१४.

VIEW (Voices of the Indian English Writers)

Both first n second issues of our journal VIEW (Voices of Indian English Writers, an international Peer Reviewed Journal of English Language and Literature ISSN 2347-7717) received to me today. Due to technical problems, issues are delayed to get printed and hence both issues are brought together.

Feeling happy that VIEW is being 'viewed' and 'reviewed' by literary scholars and critics with appreciation. Feeling nice to be associated with Dr. Ratan n Dr Jaydeep for these two issues of 2013and could help them in editing, correcting, formating draft of issues. Now this journal will appeare in new form with new editorial board from 2014 issues. My one paper and one review on my one of books also appeared in it. 

AT ENGCONF2014

ENGCONF2014, Banglore

With Scholar Friends at Two Day International Conference on
Postcolonial Voices in South Asian Literature and Cinema, GCC, Banglore, 7-8 Feb. 2014