Raghunatha Iyer Vakya Panchangam -

Today, the Raghunatha Iyer Vakya Panchangam coexists with dozens of others. It has even adapted: the current publishers often include a comparative table showing the dates according to the Drik system, allowing users to choose. The Raghunatha Iyer Vakya Panchangam is far more than an outdated almanac. It is a monumental intellectual artifact—a bridge to a time when astronomy was practiced with poetry, memory, and devotion. Its continued use underscores a fundamental truth about Hindu timekeeping: that a calendar is not merely a tool for measuring the sky but a sacred text that orders ritual life. While the heavens above move according to the immutable laws of physics, the devout calendar-watcher in Tamil Nadu finds not error but orthodoxy in the Vakyas of Raghunatha Iyer. In its pages, the cosmos remains not as it is, but as the sages perceived it—a perfectly ordered, spiritually potent whole. As long as traditional rites are performed, the ancient sentences ( Vakyas ) will continue to speak, and the name Raghunatha Iyer will remain synonymous with the sacred computation of time.

Play Club: Discovery Ridge Elementary

Students at Discovery Ridge Elementary in O’Fallon, Missouri, were tattling and fighting more than they did before COVID and expecting the adults to soothe them. P.E. Teacher Chris Sevier thought free play might help kids become more mature and self regulating. In Play Club students organize their own fun and solve their own conflicts. An adult is present, but only as a “lifeguard.” Chris started a before-school Let Grow Play Club two mornings a week open to all the kids. He had 72 participate, with the K – 2nd graders one morning and the 3rd – 5th graders another.