Siddhi Gupta
If only spoken and written words come to mind when you think of literature, you need to expand your horizon. Visual storytelling is a very old art form, especially in a culturally rich country like India. By introducing your students to books that tell stories through folk art, we can rethink literature classes beyond narratives and classics and help our students imagine, wonder, and understand the world better.
Dhwani Shah
Can you guess what literary genre members of this tea party are reading? Their attire and language are clues.
Bijal Vachharajani
Climate crisis is already upon us. Extreme weather conditions are becoming the norm. Unless we help our children fall in love with this planet, unless we show them that the climate we are experiencing today is not normal, unless we bring to them inspiring tales of climate champions, they will not be ready to tackle this huge problem.
Radhika Chhaparia
When one thinks of philosophy, one immediately frames it as a subject for adults. But children can be quite philosophical too. How can we feed and help this philosophical bent in children grow? Can stories help?
Geetha Iyer
If you are a science teacher, then you surely have encountered utterly bored or extremely terrified students when teaching taxonomy—a topic that is as confusing as it is important. In primary classes, stories are often used to teach children, but we don’t attempt to use this method in high school. Why? Won’t high school students enjoy listening to stories?
Somdatta Karak
If you thought COVID-19 was the worst pandemic to hit mankind, you will be wrong. We have another faceless enemy already amidst us and growing bigger every year. Indiscriminate use of antibiotics by man has led to the evolution of superbugs—bacteria and virus that can resist the strongest of antibiotics. We need to wage a war against Anti-Microbial Resistance right now and literature and other art forms can become powerful tools that will help us fight this pandemic.
Achala Upendran
When the number of books is so many that even if you spent a lifetime reading, you will not be able to read them all, why is it that some of us read the same books over and over again? Every time we re-read a book that has touched us, we meet a little piece of ourselves that we left behind in its pages and become whole again.
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.
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?
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?
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