Another Fort- Travel Challenge

Like the Summer of 42, KBG enters the 42nd episode!

KBG-42 throws a challenge to all the travellers and roadies. Identify the fort shown in the picture.

Do you need a clue? The Fort is situated next to a National Highway in India. See the car in the foreground in the picture below.

Still not got the answer? Well, here is the last clue for you. Read the description in the picture below and revise your geography!

You should have got it by now! Shoot your response without further delay. First three correct answers will be the Winners of Kaun Banega Ghumakkad KBG-42!

For the first-timers on KBG, you can respond on any of the six channels below:

1. Leave a comment on this post
2. Send email to hbindia@gmail.com
3. Respond on FB
4. Comment on Instagram @ghumakkadhb 
5. Comment on Twitter @HarshBh21184761
6. Send a WA message. If you want your WA number to be added to Ghumakkad's list, send an email.

The KBG Contest timing is chosen to suit most of the time zones across the world.

Hope we helped you in overcoming the lockdown boredom to some extent.

Those who missed the last edition KBG-41, we had featured another hill fort from Rajasthan. It had huge response with first three winners all coming within few minutes of posting the quiz. See the picture below.

Thanks for participating and all the best for KBG-42!

Stay connected, stay safe.

   - Harsh-the-Ghumakkad with Neeta Bhargava/ 30th Sep 2020.

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Ranthambhor Fort KBG-41 Answer

 KBG-41 evoked enthusiastic response from more than 350 readers through all the channels.

The clues highlighted the sparse vegetation on the hill slopes, rock shapes and formations. Despite the clues, the readers gave Golconda and Chittorgarh Forts as the answer. Do recall our geography lessons in the middle school. The difference in the age, type of rocks and shapes between the Aravalli, Satpura and the Vindhya ranges! Ranthambhore fort, the correct answer, is part of the Aravali range which is an example of fold mountains. 

Fold mountains are formed when two plates move together. This can be where two continental plates move towards each other or a continental and an oceanic plate. The movement of the two plates forces sedimentary rocks upwards into a series of folds. Our pictures shown in KBG-41 highlighted the folds.

For more pictures and a detailed story of Ranthambor Fort please browse our earlier story here.

Winners

The first three correct answers came within few minutes. Our congratulations to the winners whose brief profiles are listed below:

1. Anshu Bhargava: Chartered Accountant, Pranic healer, fitness enthusiast, keen traveller and Nature lover. KBG winner multiple times.
2. Rashmi Bhargava: MA(English Honours) loves reading, gardening and travelling. Lives in Sikar Rajasthan. KBG Winner multiple times.
3. Dipankar Dhar: Anesthesiologist, former Surgeon Commander Indian Navy, keen photographer and traveller. Circumnavigated the earth in a yacht.

Once again, we thank all the participants from different time zones. Without you Kaun Banega Ghumakkad would not have reached where it has! Hope KBG contest helped in taking your minds off Covid, Corona and the lockdown anxiety.

Thanks for browsing and keeping the KBG going!

Stay connected, stay safe.

     - Harsh-the-Ghumakkad with Neeta Bhargava/ 25th Sep 2020

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Seen this Fort KBG-41

After a series of KBGs on plants and trees, we now tickle your knowledge of Forts and Palaces of India.

Which fort is this?

Need a clue? See another picture below.

Still not got it? Last clue for you follows!

That was a big giveaway!

Now, shoot fast. Name the fort. First three correct answers will be the Winners of Kaun Banega Ghumakkad KBG-41!

For the first-timers on KBG, you can respond on any of the six channels below:

1. Leave a comment on this post
2. Send email to hbindia@gmail.com
3. Respond on FB
4. Comment on Instagram @ghumakkadhb 
5. Comment on Twitter @HarshBh21184761
6. Send a WA message. If you want your WA number to be added to Ghumakkad's list, send an email.

The KBG Contest timing is chosen to suit most of the time zones across the world.

Hope we helped you in overcoming the lockdown boredom to some extent.

Those who missed the last edition KBG-40, we had featured a monsoon favourite plant the healthy Maize or Indian Corn. It had huge response with first three winners all coming within few minutes of posting the quiz. See the picture below.

Thanks for participating and all the best for KBG-41!

Stay connected, stay safe.

   - Harsh-the-Ghumakkad with Neeta Bhargava/ 18th Sep 2020.

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Covid Couldn't Deter Us: Teachers' Day 2020

 'Covid couldn't deter us'- am saying this on behalf of all the teachers of the world.

Pre-schools, schools, colleges, universities- teachers boldly accepted the challenge posed by Covid lockdown and continued teaching. Both students and teachers being forced to stay home, the teaching had to go on-line. Not the best way to learn and teach, but we had no option. 

This Teachers' Day is thus different. We can't meet and greet our students and colleagues physically. For readers outside India, 5th september is celebrated as the Teachers' Day. It commemorates the birth anniversary of Dr S Radhakrishnan, a renowned teacher and  former President of India.

Harsh-the-Ghumakkad is also a teacher. I firmly believe that real learning happens outside the classroom. 

Be it summer internship, shorter field projects involving a survey and analysis, organising and attending a professional event- every activity outside the classroom helps in transforming the students. Even extra curricular activities help in personality development as well as gaining self confidence. Am sharing few pictures of outdoor activities with my students during the year.

You may browse a story titled 'Management Lessons from Visit to a Forest'. Some of the pictures from the story reproduced for you below.

Get a glimpse of the Farewell Function for the outgoing Class of 2020 organised by the junior batch.

See the five-second video clip below and feel the energy of the graduating students!

As teachers, we learn from each other as well. The faculty team at VVISM Hyderabad.

From last Teachers' Day in Sep-19 till Feb-20, it was teaching in physical mode. However, Mar-20 onwards it had to be on-line. Sharing some of the pictures/experiences of the year gone by.

Teacher Continues Learning

As I have always said, teacher continues to learn. He/she learns from the students, fellow teachers and the world at large. In Google-driven world of today, teachers have to go beyond Google. We as teachers thrive on innovation and by igniting the young minds. You may browse what I wrote earlier in the stories titled A Teacher Keeps Learning (2018) and Who Inspires A Teacher (2017).

FDPs

Govt of India utilised the Covid lockdown to conduct numerous Faculty Development Programs for teachers across India. I was invited to conduct 'Case based teaching for Rural Entrepreneurship' in few of the FDPs conducted by Mahatma Gandhi National Council for Rural Education (MGNCRE). Sharing a picture of an online FDP workshop below.

Ghumakkad also mentored the 33rd cohort of Social Entrepreneurship program conducted by CSIM Hyderabad.

Webinars

The pandemic saw a spurt in Webinars (web based seminars) on various topics. In fact, people started suffering from webinar-fatigue! I too participated in few webinars. The webinar titled 'Pandemic The Unwanted Companion But A Great Teacher' had a large viewership of 3000+ views. See the poster below.

A Teacher's Joy

What is the biggest joy for a teacher? Simple. It is when their former students excel in life! One such joyful moment happened when I chanced to meet a former student at her place of work! She was part of the marketing team of a gated villas-cum-resort in Vapi, Gujarat. And I happened to travel all the way from Hyderabad for this surprise encounter! Picture below.

Similarly, when students get placed as a direct result of a teacher's course, there can't be a better proof of the pudding! See the picture of two of my former students of Startup Management course who joined a Startup!

It is the youth of the world who will make the earth a better place to live. Please view my short video message to all my former students to continue to do well. That is the ultimate joy for me as a teacher!

Gratitude

On teachers day, I thank all my students, former students, fellow teachers, my teachers, parents (both were teachers) and family for enriching my life as a teacher. Sincere gratitude to all.

Special thanks to the 'naughty' students for making the classes interesting! No names but all the 'naughty' types will connect with this, am sure. You guys rock!

Am also recounting some of the previous years' Teachers' Day stories below. Just click to browse.

Inculcating the Spirit of Enquiry (2019)

The Fun is about to Begin (2016)

Teachers Open the Door.. (2015)

Teacher Goes Beyond the Classroom (2012) - My IBS experience

I must thank VVISM Hyderabad for providing me with the platform for continued learning with my students.

We end with a quote by Mark Van Doren (Poet, writer and critic. 1894-1972) who said that "The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery".

Thanks for browsing.

Stay safe and stay connected.

    - Harsh-the-Teacher/ 5th Sept 2020/ Secunderabad

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