My primary school building was an old-fashioned one. Classrooms on the first and second floors opened into an open balcony protected by a sloping tile roof. Three classrooms opened into these. The ground floor classrooms were connected and opened into a gravelly playground, the school church, the ‘grotto’ with a statue of Mother Mary and … More Celebrating a diverse Republic
December and January in Chennai are not just months of relatively decent weather, but also a time of holidays and disruptions. In a good year, students break for the Christmas-New Year week and then very quickly, for Pongal. In other years, climate emergencies disrupt their routine and they spend the rest of the academic year … More Citizenship, Protest and Democracy: A Teachable Moment
[This article appeared on the Open Page of The Hindu on September 29, 2019.] These are tough times to raise children. News, both true and fake, inundates us, and much that is considered newsworthy relates to violence and injustice. Children cannot be protected from this avalanche, and parents and teachers must contend with its effect on their sense of … More Teaching Peace, Learning Peace
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