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Featured L4C participant: Dr.

Ramakrishnan Srinivasan
Learning4Content Home Page

"Getting together is beginning. Staying

together is progress. Working together is
success." Rg- Veda.
I am Dr. Ramakrishnan Srinivasan, a 52 year old
male Indian hailing from the state of Karnataka. I
live in the coastal suburb of Suratkal about 18 kms
from Mangalore. I have been teaching English as a
second language since 1991 in a governement
aided college managed by the Academy of General
Education, Manipal, Karnataka. I hold Ph.D degree
in English Literature (1998) and a Ph.D degree in
Sanskrit (2007). I am multilingual and apart from
English, I am proficient in Sanskrit, Hindi,
Kannada, and Malayalam. As the Director of the
Centre for Spiritual Resource Development
(CSRD), I am involved in research studies in
Traditional Disciplines such as Ayurveda, Yoga and
WikiEducator is an empowering force for
education
Tantra. I am one of the founding members of the
Project Mind Foundation for realizing Accelerated
Thought (as constituted by David S. Devor, Israel).

I discovered the country page for India on

WikiEducator and enlisted myself as a
WikiAmbassador on 13 April 2008. The following
day, I registered for an online Learning4Content
workshop. My mission is to share with the world
our rich heritage of India, that is Bharat, and this
will help fulfill my vision of realizing global
Vande Mataram, the national song of India
human identity as revealed in the living Vedic
tradition. I believe that the wiki environment is conducive to achieving the ideals of being
human globally.

Reflecting back on my first interactions with WikiEducator, I navigated effortlessly from the
main page to WikiEducator's country page for India. This hoisted my flag of inspiration, to
elevated heights and marked the realization of the rich heritage and potential of Bharat
(India). WikiEducator's philosophy of sharing is an enabler to achieve and fulfill: the vision
of living in the Vedic Tradition; global human identity and unity through knowledge for all
and by all. Through my interactions in the Learning4Content workshop, I discovered that
the wiki approach combined with the wider WikiEducator community to be an empowering
force for education. I was attracted by the universal acknowledgment of the value of the

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human knowledge capital in WikiEducator. Above all the notion of a global fraternity aiming
progress and peace through a reusable knowledge base will become life- fulfilling to both
teachers and students.
I have initiated a grassroots campaign for WikiEducator focusing on advocacy, access to
technology and local capability development. I have started promoting email accounts for
colleagues and teachers at large in Karnataka. Soon, in collaboration with state level plans
for increased access to the Internet, I am planning to promote skills development for future
WikiEducators in my region to increase the number of OER contributors from South East
Asia to this international endeavour of Jnana Yajna, meaning kindling the fire of wisdom.

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Vande Mataram.

"Mother and Mother Land are greater Heavens than the Paradise." - The Ramayana

Notes
• Copied and refined from original submission by Ramakrishnan Srinivasan.

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