I began my teaching career without any pre-conceived ideas or notions. I was not influenced by Paulo Freire , Frank Mc Court or any other legendary practitioners of the art. I just started flowing like water all these years I have flowed in and flowed out through four different campuses. In all these four places my teaching life was filled with passion and energy. It started in Loyola in the year, 2001 and it continues till date.
Maybe it all started when I was a child, walking through the streets of Calicut. I made easy and quick rapport with people. Some of them were short lived and others exist even today. My parents were not quite happy with this tendency of mine. They like all other parents reprimanded me with the words of caution – NEVER TALK TO STRANGERS. My extra-gelling habit always became handy in my teachers profession. The only thing is that it sometimes it went beyond the limits and has led to many bad situations. The one involving the Rajasthan Episode and the other one involving the College Road remains stale and rotten in my memory.
At Loyola it was just the beginning… starting with newsletters me and student friends embarked on a journey beyond the classrooms. I really got the kick out of all these activities. As I write this blog, I am still counting the number of activities that I did in Loyola. If I arrange them first it was the class newsletters, then came the inter-class presentations, a lovely exhibition on world religion, the audio CD titled ADI, then the multimedia presentation titled – THE POWER OF ONE, audio-visual presentation based on Dominique Lapierre’s book – It was Five Past Midnight in Bhopal. All these projects were done through sheer team work and co-operation from my students.
When I came to MCC, it was time for action once again. Started with class newsletters and then into forming a club titled- Circle of Lightz. Under the aegis of this club, I did my first theater experiment based on the Diaries of Anne Frank. The play was titled as – Man – An Awakening. After two performances, one in the campus and the other one in Chennai city, the play and the crew became tired. The second theatrical presentation was based on Macbeth. Personally I liked this one because it was a small group and it was me who sponsored the whole project.
Then Libya happened. I felt little suffocated there. Conservative society. I cannot really blame them, I was a misfit there. Even though the situations were adverse I managed to bring out a newsletter titled – Humane writings… I think it was the newsletter that was published in the history of that university
Coming back to India, once again I plunged into action. Many of the projects are still in its formative stages. I will mention only one project which was completed – that’s the lab journal titled – CLL (Creations of Language Lab). Other projects are in the pipeline.
Maybe it all started when I was a child, walking through the streets of Calicut. I made easy and quick rapport with people. Some of them were short lived and others exist even today. My parents were not quite happy with this tendency of mine. They like all other parents reprimanded me with the words of caution – NEVER TALK TO STRANGERS. My extra-gelling habit always became handy in my teachers profession. The only thing is that it sometimes it went beyond the limits and has led to many bad situations. The one involving the Rajasthan Episode and the other one involving the College Road remains stale and rotten in my memory.
At Loyola it was just the beginning… starting with newsletters me and student friends embarked on a journey beyond the classrooms. I really got the kick out of all these activities. As I write this blog, I am still counting the number of activities that I did in Loyola. If I arrange them first it was the class newsletters, then came the inter-class presentations, a lovely exhibition on world religion, the audio CD titled ADI, then the multimedia presentation titled – THE POWER OF ONE, audio-visual presentation based on Dominique Lapierre’s book – It was Five Past Midnight in Bhopal. All these projects were done through sheer team work and co-operation from my students.
When I came to MCC, it was time for action once again. Started with class newsletters and then into forming a club titled- Circle of Lightz. Under the aegis of this club, I did my first theater experiment based on the Diaries of Anne Frank. The play was titled as – Man – An Awakening. After two performances, one in the campus and the other one in Chennai city, the play and the crew became tired. The second theatrical presentation was based on Macbeth. Personally I liked this one because it was a small group and it was me who sponsored the whole project.
Then Libya happened. I felt little suffocated there. Conservative society. I cannot really blame them, I was a misfit there. Even though the situations were adverse I managed to bring out a newsletter titled – Humane writings… I think it was the newsletter that was published in the history of that university
Coming back to India, once again I plunged into action. Many of the projects are still in its formative stages. I will mention only one project which was completed – that’s the lab journal titled – CLL (Creations of Language Lab). Other projects are in the pipeline.
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