Tag Archives: Tata-Dhan Academy

Am I inconsistent?

By Ananda | Published: November 15, 2009

I won’t pretend that I don’t have any illegal software installed on my computers, but here are a couple of scenarios that have occurred at work recently. A student came to me with his new laptop and asked me “Can I have a copy of Office 2007?” I thought for a minute and said, “Um, [...]

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An interview with Ananda Mahto

By Ananda Mahto | Published: February 6, 2009

Every year, pretty much everyone available from DHAN Foundation and its family of “themes” gets a chance to attend the “DHAN Retreat.” The retreat takes place in different places each year. There are also different themes each year. Because of my surgery, I wasn’t able to attend this last retreat, which was somewhat unfortunate since [...]

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Mr Grumpy’s 2009 “How-to-write” calendar

By Ananda Mahto | Published: January 4, 2009

Over the past few weeks, everyone has been going calendar crazy. I mean EVERYONE. I was sitting in meetings with colleagues trying to write “messages” and then find the right pictures to go with the calendar they were making. Amy was asking me how to edit some of her photos so that they would look [...]

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More websites…. I’m on a roll….

By Ananda Mahto | Published: July 6, 2008

Like I said in my last post, I’ve been trying to keep myself busy. This time, it is a website to highlight student life and student work at the Tata-Dhan Academy. What can I say? When the students don’t try to test my skills at detecting plagiarism, I actually enjoy a lot of the work [...]

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