ANOU’S BLOG
teacher’s day revisited
A nomadic childhood meant many a school, but when I look back on those years, each school no matter where it was located, always had a teacher one remembers with fondness, someone you wanted to emulate, someone you looked up to!Be it Melle Valent in France, Mr...
number game..
The results of a recent survey indicates that India is the sixth most dangerous country in the world. Afghanistan, Palestinian territories, Myanmar and Chechnya were placed better than India.Many will and even are contesting these results, and even if we do better,...
and the combat cannot cease..
And the combat ceased, for want of combatants. Le Cid (IV, 3).These words from a play long forgotten sprung to my mind this morning. Live every child put through the French system. Corneille is a must and often the play selected is Le Cid, where a tragic hero finds...
a hero to emulate
I often wonder who are the present heroes that the children of India can look up to and want to model one's self on. The ones that are often cited are jaded or otherworldly. We live in times when all we hear about is violence steeped in the widest variety of sauces....
intuition to validation
The bete noire of any not-for-profit organisation is undoubtedly its sustainability particularly if one views such work as having a duration in space and time. Education above all does not make any sense if its temporality is limited to the 'bon vouloir' of funding...
up, up and away…. another b & b
Wonder what mr p. is thinking as he climbs the steps to a temple he decided to visit on his monthly day out.This is the same kid who should not have been around had all things remained as they were in the life he was born to live. So what is it that altered his life?...
a moment in the India of my dreams..
Look at this picture, at first glance it may seem to be just two people and a child posing in front of the Birla temple in Delhi, India's capital city, nothing to write home about.Look again and let me tell you the incredible bonds that underlie this picture. In...
vex, lie and lose
In the land of the downtrodden and the illiterate, all is not as it should be. One would think that anyone who gives jobs to people considered unemployable, works towards containing drop out rates with success and cares for the differently abled should be welcomed...
an impossible dream or perhaps not….
In the wake of the reservation issue and keeping in mind the abysmal state in which education for the less privileged is, many questions come to mind. Today's paper published a report on India's capital city which states that over 100 000 children in the age group 6...
hijacked promises
The picture is a little hazy, just like the dreams these kids dare to dream...maybe it is better that way.These are children celebrating Independence day 2006. It was their decision, their planning and they even invited to local SHO, Mr Khan who always makes it a...
tread carefully mr government
A well rated TV channel has been airing dramatic pictures of instances of child labour, and we all agree that child labour should be banned as it goes against the essence of human dignity.Then why have I been so disturbed by some of the stories and in particular the...
a day in the life of India at 60
Three news item caught my attention today. Little Pakhi, age 6 is thrown out of her school bus as the driver brakes suddenly and dies on the spot, her school barely a 10 minute drive away from her home; 665 migrant labour come Delhi everyday and four years down the...