Sea Elves of Myth - Coffee Time Reads

                                  For the last one year I have been anointed the family barber and to be honest have enjoyed the title very much. These lock down days have given me an opportunity to sharpen my hair styling skills. If my dad and husband requested my services, it was not the case when it came to my son. With him I had to beg, bribe and at times threaten to make him agree to shear off his unruly mane. Then he has always had issues with grooming. The trivialities of civilization like bathing, brushing, combing and changing cloths could hardly find a place in his busy daily schedule of games and play. Let alone setting time apart for trimming nails and getting haircuts. Hundred Year's War                                    ...

    Looking at the sobbing eyes of her child Mother’s heart melted. Which mother can bear the tears of her child? It is time to take charge…. So Mother put on her cape to set off and straighten some things. After all, isn’t it the job of every concerned, loving mom? Even before those times of Johnson & Johnson ads moms who invariably vowed to get the best for their child, mothers everywhere shared a similar concept. It is their primary, if not sole, duty and responsibility -  safeguard their brood. Mother had been a staunch believer of this concept. She had taken it her life mission to protect and preserve, to make sure that no harm will come to her child. So she never let her child play in the sun or in the rain lest it might give a heatstroke or pneumonia. A single cough could give her a panic attack as it might be whooping cough, common cold could turn into meningitis and a soft stool could be cholera. For...

  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...