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Climate crisis and the battle for imagination

Urvi Desai
Even though climate crisis has been upon us for a while now, we don’t see any serious intent among people or governments to tackle the problem. Climate change is a unique challenge facing mankind. It is a problem whose effects will be felt not now but later. Perhaps that is why people don’t feel the need to act now? So, we need to imagine new ways to instill the urgency of the problem in people. We need to change the way we tell the climate crisis story.

Building bridges through stories

Suroor Alikhan
We are becoming more and more selfish and less understanding and accepting of ‘the other’. In a world that is ready to take up arms at the drop of a hat, we need something that will help build bridges between communities. And the best way to understand a community that is different from us is to read their stories. So, when will you being to read the world?

An entry to other worlds

Jamuna Inamdar
The popularity and versatility of socially and politically dominant languages such as Hindi and English is pushing minority languages into oblivion. Unless we do something to preserve them now, minority Indian languages like Maithili, Konkani, Gondi, and many more will soon become extinct with nobody speaking or reading them. Can literature be used to revive a language on the brink of extinction?

Exploring Arunachal Pradesh through prose and poetry

Yater Nyokir
Literature has the power to inspire, encourage, reform, and introduce us to new cultures, traditions, and people. Here is how literature has been helping bring an isolated and unknown land from the dark into the light.

A land of stories

Jisha Unnikrishnan
Identify 35 timeless classics, characters and writers in this picture.

Teenagers and the Bard

Naina Joseph
For students learning and living in the 21st century, how relevant can Shakespeare be? What can they learn from stories that were written aeons ago? Well, if students are still experiencing anger, jealousy, hatred, love, and alienation, then they have a lot to learn from Shakespeare, whose works showcased these very human emotions.

Literature in high school

Kamakshi Balasubramanian
Your education is not complete, if you are merely literate and have laboratory and computational skills. Good education is that which nurtures a reflective, creative, and compassionate mind, for only then can you build a humane and understanding society. The arts and humanities are the best way to inculcate these skills in students, which is why even the science students must engage with literature. But how do you get them to?

Lessons in literature

B Ajitha
The CBSE literature curriculum for high school is designed to help students gain not only life skills but also the necessary tools to engage with the world. It is therefore imperative that we teach them the subject in a manner that piques their interest. Here are a few tips and suggestions.

Nurturing new poets

Saumya Choudhury
Anger, frustration, love, fear– there are so many complex emotions bubbling inside us and they need a let out. Poetry is one of the best mediums of self-expression and we need to encourage our children to use it to understand themselves and speak to others. So how do we inspire children to become poets?

Help the imagination take wing

Cheryl Rao
In this modern world where we find ourselves in situations we have never known of before, are encountering problems never heard of before, and witnessing changes never seen before, we need powerful and active imaginations to find solutions and live in harmony. And is there a better way than stories to build those imaginative skills?

Climate crisis and the battle for imagination

Building bridges through stories

An entry to other worlds

Exploring Arunachal Pradesh through prose and poetry

A land of stories

Teenagers and the Bard

Literature in high school

Lessons in literature

Nurturing new poets

Help the imagination take wing

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