AnuVizon

Another Brick in the Wall I have been meaning to write about issues of villages of our country and the state of education there. Villages contain about 60% of our population and yet are voiceless. I left school with many fond memories, but almost all were from my last years of schooling in JNVs. School experience before that had been a nasty one, and whenever I listen to the song Another Brick in the Wall, it strikes a chord with me. We don't need no education We don't need no thought control No dark sarcasm in the classroom Teacher, leave them kids alone Hey, teacher, leave them kids alone All in all, it's just another brick in the wall All in all, you're just another brick in the wall -Another Brick in the Wall, Song by Pink Floyd   Enough has been written about schools, teachers, and education. Contrary to what people might suspect, I will not denigrate education as it is given. Instead, I highlight how the fruits of education remain off-limit in rural areas. For thi...

Dusk has a fascinating name in Hindi. It is called Godhuli [Go is the cow, Dhuli is dust] . In our village, this confluence of day and night is called the Awadhi equivalent of its Hindi name. There is a very interesting phenomenon behind the naming of this time; I remember this phenomenon from when I was a kid. Every year in summer vacations, I would go to my Mama's home. His house is at the edge of the village on the side of a road that connects the village to farming fields and meadows. As the sun descended in the sky and outside became bearable, many kids would gather around the house and play one of the multitudes of games we used to play those days. On many such days, in the middle of our game, we would have to flee because some cattle from the herds returning to the village from meadows would decide to leave their own group and try to join ours or maybe in an attempt to grab a mouthful of some vegetable grown in a nearby farm. After all, herds passed through the roads air wou...