Even in the best of times the Indian schooling system is not remotely sensitive to a child’s needs, education or it’s aspirations.
Perhaps that one odd exceptional teacher could brighten a schooling experience but by & large the system is one of rote & elimination not education
To now sensitise these very educationists who if one may say, find it a challenge to handle even the conventional two genders to
“aspects of gender diversity keeping gender-nonconforming and transgender children at centre stage.” would be simply an exercise on paper,
whimsical at best, unrelated to our reality when so much more needs urgent looking into.
Out dated syllabus.
Innovative & interesting teaching methods. #NCERT
~Imagine if our city had announced that this year for Diwali they wanted you & your family to come onto your threshold, balcony, terrace or garden to enjoy a fireworks display – soundless & green whatever that means between 8-9 pm in celebration of Diwali.
There would have been no mention of an insulting ban, no smug reproach but only a very novel, enticing offer.
Yes, my children would have burst their sparklers, anaar, chakris after our Puja and yes with our diyas lit, our mithai exchanged wouldn’t we have for that one hour
put everything on hold & come out to enjoy our very important festival ?
Calling out to friends & neighbours from across doorways, balconies & terraces to enjoy the spectacle.
This community highlight would slowly grow to be that display which year after year with our enthusiasm
Investigation & law cannot & should not take its course in the case of a Superstar’s son because he happens to be Muslim & more so he promotes an interactive educational, please note educational, online portal.
Islamophobic, what ?
You can’t say anything about stubble burning or ‘Farmers Protest’ because our Anndaatas have fed this nation for gratis. Free electricity, loan waivers subsidised by our taxes, not withstanding.
As for our Little Emperors,
instead of clearing a backlog of over a million cases they spout Shakespeare & such like, far removed from our ‘vernacular’ folk, take vacations as in the Raj & serve you Contempt of Court if you as much question their ‘wisdom’
A gentleman & his lady several years after returning home to England from The Colonies, invited an old domestic to their stately home.
The elderly chap who had since evidently moved up in life, drove a spanking new car with the wheels crunching on the winding gravel driveway.
Overlooking their own new fortunes they said
~You have done well for yourself ~ with a smile not quite reaching their eyes.
~ Come! Come in!~
Invited the lady offering him tea but looking on in some trepidation as the guest held the wafer fine cup in his big hands.
Meanwhile the gentleman stayed out for only a minute longer to key the shining car.
It had been a while since he had his eye on this model.
To think the domestic had had the temerity to come & visit them flaunting it.
So no, he didn’t feel the least guilty as he ran the key
Perhaps insensitive & unpopular opinion at this time but ….. #Afganistan
In the early 80's Defence Colony & Lajpat Nagar, New Delhi were localities that found favour with Afghan refugees.
Within few months in our fairly relaxed locality there were disturbing changes to our way of life.
From walking alone without a second thought to Defence Colony Market a popular place with eateries, bakeries & other stores we began to go in two’s or more
as the young men who began hanging around streets in groups seemed unaccustomed to seeing unchaperoned girls/women.
~Art, culture, history taught & spoken are soothing balms for wretched souls savaged by violence.
Our leaders, historians & thinkers in their wisdom never utilized these means to assuage a new country and it’s trauma~
~The unforgivable tragedy is that we were deprived of National Therapy, a collective conversation to reveal, speak, discover others equally wounded and above all question~
However, it is the political agency of Hindus & Hinduism that is threatened everyday & is eaten away before our eyes.
Till there is a concerted effort & focus on fighting this threat by the State itself, there is no doubt we will be neutered & our voice, no longer count.
Compelling us into silence when it comes to crime. Forcing us indoors to practise our traditions & forms of worship ‘discreetly & quietly’ lest it ‘disturb’ those who pushed, shoved & got their way.