Sea Elves of Myth - Coffee Time Reads

  Sasha was determined to fit in this time. New school, new teachers, new atmosphere! She was determined to work hard, study well, improve on her handwriting and be a success!! She just wanted to make her mom proud for once in her life.   Life had never been easy on her. Being an only child in the 80s was tough. She had been constantly judged by her relatives and bullied by her cousins. She was endorsed as the brand ambassador of ONLY CHILDREN – selfish, spoiled and lacking the qualities like sharing, caring and adaptability.   Though not lacking in any of the qualities mentioned above she was by no means what the dictionary defined the terms selfish & spoiled . But the girl was miserable. She had little academic, athletic or social skills. She was slow in everything! Even Turbo, the snail would be faster than her! Whether it’s a simple task of taking the book out of her bag in class or the more complicated ones like making friends and keeping them. She was ...

      Going through one of the articles meant to be uploaded in the blog, which is among the many practical activities of Semester IV in the B. Ed. life of present times, made me think about the busy schedule of this course as well as the many perks and perils of student life. Being a student is tough!! A truth that grown-ups and the society generally do not agree upon. Especially the literary world. Numerous poets have warbled about the wonders and beauty of that particular time of one’s life.   However the film world has been genuinely concerned about the traumas and troubles faced by the students in their academic endeavors. In fact, Aamir Khan has specialized in this genre of   academic background cinema giving us many blockbuster movies that are worth multiple watches. If ‘ Tare Zameen Pur’ explored the subject of ‘Learning Disabilities,’ a topic that needed to be addressed on a main stream platform, ‘3 Idiots’ discusses the deeper meaning of learnin...