Around the world and mind...

Internet is a big boon for the generations now and about to come although with some harmful strings attached. Let’s keep that negative aspect aside for a while. But factually, it is really helping many who remained abandoned from the learning opportunities. Especially the rural or suburban pockets have been deprived of education and related opportunities of late. In spite of being akin to fruitful abilities, they remain deprived of education. This is thanks to the tyrannical government policies and the growing urban migratory mindset. Recently I had a chance to listen to ma’am Vidhi Jain . The platform was Josh Talks . The examples that she narrated were startling and equally horrendous. She terms the schooling that we go through as the ‘factory schooling’. She narrated this one incident of conducting an art and craft workshop which consisted of about thirty pupils. Twenty-six out of them were so called school-going folks and remaining four were from nearby kachchi-ba