“Cause” – Nayana Nair

Are all theses plights
result of
the conflicting voices of various people
or the wavering heart of each one?

“Your Fullness” – Nayana Nair

The fullness of your soul
reminds me of the emptiness of mine.
And of countless others
who have not yet realized
the word for what they feel,
who have been carefully dodging
their own reflections
by looking into the the right mirrors.
And you might not have known
what this plight feels like,
but I guess I am also choosing
a convenient lens to look at you,
while I am making list of people
who have misunderstood me.

In name of education

(Image taken from acralive.org)

Have you ever wondered what do they teach the children in schools today? ……Well, I know…to a large extent, at least. Well these days they are learning to spend their whole day doing the never ending list of homework…which sadly gets renewed everyday…and in the meantime…the whole family is busy completing their project work….When they are in school…the teachers ask them to get the next exercise as homework…and if they are kind hearted enough they’ll probably solve those already solved examples. They pile up their notebooks and project…and never ever give it a second look ever again…. (Maybe they’re reusing their files for their own purposes….) and the whole time teachers know that the children’s project work…..that is too good to be true…has been made by someone else…you present a doubt before them…you’ll then probably end up getting scolded “what! You don’t even know that? What are you doing in school…..blah…blah….blah…” in short student never go to teachers to ask doubt….and in the end…at the parents meet teachers says “if you have any problem…why don’t you come to me” (as if they don’t already know what are the consequences of asking doubts )…and by mistake a parent complaints against a teacher…for not teaching good enough…no harm done to teacher…its still the student who suffers…

In the end…students are vexed…teachers irritated…and parents hopeless from this so called developed system of education. What’s the result…children practically don’t know anything…..(this is real life situation…)…and then they say…no child will get failed till eighth class however low the marks….a good reason for them for not studying…..

If this is the education they impart in schools these days….I’d prefer home schooling

And if you read newspaper…you must have come to know that we stand second last in the whole world as far as education is concerned.

So there maybe many ministers…. out there….boasting what a difference they have made in this field…they’ll probably end up saying….

”look…you can clearly see the difference made by our REFORMS…no students attempt suicide…lamenting about their marks”

Well they are right….now it’s the guardians that will die…….no one knows what’s happening…students are confused…and so are parents….