{"id":58,"date":"2011-09-30T23:52:33","date_gmt":"2011-10-01T04:52:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sangamithra.wordpress.com\/?p=58"},"modified":"2011-09-30T23:52:33","modified_gmt":"2011-10-01T04:52:33","slug":"good-books-and-good-associations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sangamithraiyer.com\/?p=58","title":{"rendered":"Good Books and Good Associations"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 152px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"   \" style=\"margin-left:5px;margin-right:5px;\" title=\"Kausalya Thirupuvanam\" src=\"https:\/\/lh5.googleusercontent.com\/-MgesdnqUFEI\/SolHQCTbI3I\/AAAAAAAAF9Q\/JmLFXmGufO4\/s512\/DSC_8042.JPG\" alt=\"\" width=\"152\" height=\"184\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kausalya Thirupuvanam<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>This summer, my brother and I interviewed Kausalya Thirupuvanum just before her 90th birthday. \u00a0She and her family set up the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thirupuvanamfoundation.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Thirupuvanum foundation <\/a>which sponsors a local government school in Bangalore, and was set up in response to this question:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;How can children deprived of even basic necessities like food, clothing, shelter and even parental care survive in this world\u2026 much less learn their abc\u2019s? What future do such children have and how can this situation be alleviated?&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Kausalya Patti, as we call her, has always been full of wisdom and a proponent of education. Her advice to us about the key to a good life, was &#8220;good books and good associations.&#8221; As a literary animal, I couldn&#8217;t help but agree. \u00a0She also talked about \u00a0Jiva Karuynam&#8211;Life Compassion&#8211;and the importance of trying to live what we learn.<\/p>\n<p>Here is a video that came out of that interview:<\/p>\n<p>[youtube=http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=aXP8XmI2qGE]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This summer, my brother and I interviewed Kausalya Thirupuvanum just before her 90th birthday. \u00a0She and her family set up the Thirupuvanum foundation which sponsors a local government school in Bangalore, and was set up in response to this question: &#8220;How can children deprived of even basic necessities like food, clothing, shelter and even parental &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sangamithraiyer.com\/?p=58\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Good Books and Good Associations&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,11],"tags":[105,83],"class_list":["post-58","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books-2","category-india","tag-india","tag-schools"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sangamithraiyer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sangamithraiyer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sangamithraiyer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sangamithraiyer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sangamithraiyer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sangamithraiyer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sangamithraiyer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sangamithraiyer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sangamithraiyer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}