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On Teaching, Learning and Roadies

Fiona Vaz

After being a teacher for two years and a viewer of the show Roadies on MTV (for several years, yes I am embarrassed), I have a few things to say.

Every time I watch the show – right from the time of auditions to the final episode – I ask myself: What are the children watching?

The episode I am watching right now (doesn’t matter which one, almost all of them are the same) has had me whip out my laptop and write …


An Exciting Bomb

Butterfly
Kartikey Sehgal
A green parcel-like bomb lies at the centre of a road. The police cordon off the entire area and send a protected man to diffuse it. Crowds stand at road corners wondering what would have happened had it exploded. News channels do the same; thinking on behalf of people sitting at home.

This is a time when caste and class barriers thin out. The madam in the fancy car and the salesman inside the fancy potholed road are discussing safety issues in a few sentences. And nobody asks the sweeper his caste before informing him about the green parcel that lies at the centre of the road.


Let’s complain about…?

building in a mess
This was once a beautiful building. For almost two years now, it is a dumping ground.
This is a monsoon destroyed. Would you credit people from this building when they talk about societal problems?