‘Good morning Ma’am’, a chorus greeted us as we walked into the indoor games area at Delhi Public School [DPS] Patna. A group of twenty-seven middle and high school students armed with sheets of information on Anne Frank greeted us with big smiles on their faces—enough to dispel the early winter gloom. After a brief…
Workshop at Teachers Centre, Loreto College, Calcutta. 29.11.2016. Facilitator: Meher Ali Participants: 9 A History for Peace event. ‘In our desire to be politically correct and neutral, in our desire to not step on toes, I feel that facts are being lost. How do we counter that? My tussle is that as a teacher…
On 29 September, Meher Ali, a Fulbright scholar from Brown University conducted a session on ‘Understanding 1971’ with 17 high school students from Modern High School for Girls and Lakshmipat Singhania Academy. This was the first talk for students as a part of the History for Peace project. Using various audio visual aids, including a trailer…
‘Since I have to go to my village to sell my land along with my wife, please sanction me one-week leave.’ A joke. Perhaps circulated on social media. ‘Lolz’ The reply to the joke. Language is a complicated topic. Not the study of language, but the use and the baggage that come with the use. In…
‘The human race has been telling stories since it began’ – Doris Lessing Everyone has a story of their own but not everyone can tell them. This is what sets storytellers apart from the rest. Storytelling is an art, which is to be expressed with the effect of impressing the listeners. A master storyteller should be…
