Poetry: Soul food for learners

Ananthajyothi A few weeks ago a student came up to me and asked: “Do we need to study poetry?” This was no existential question; he just wanted to know if he could skip poetry for the forthcoming exams. While younger Read More …

Questioning literature in school

Bubla Basu “The fault, dear Brutus, lies not in our stars, but in ourselves, that we are underlings,” (Act I, Scene ii, Julius Caesar). Even as we make a ritual of blaming the syllabus and the powers that be, every Read More …

To master a language

Sheel English occupies a special place in India: a language that came to us from a different land, it is one that began to be taught in our country even before it became a subject of study in the country Read More …

Soft-footing into poetry

Venkatesh Onkar
Poetry helps a child’s imagination blossom. And the best way to teach young kids poetry is to allow them to intepret a poem and discover its richness for themsleves with the teacher intefering only if necessary.