Category: Students Nook

  • There Is Always a First Time

    There Is Always a First Time

    I got up in the morning with an unexpected flutter in my tummy. The first day of AS Level, the new chapter in my life after the gargantuan ICSE board examinations. Oddly, my mind was a tabula rasa. I wondered who my classmates would be. I felt apprehensive; a little clueless. I changed my T-shirt…

  • Just Another Story

    Just Another Story

    In the background, there was an awful commotion, men’s raised voices and women screaming. There was a deafening sound, a gunshot. I was used to all this from my days in the military. I turned in time to see a figure dart towards a balcony of a theatre. On the ground, there was blood but…

  • How Much a Dollar Cost

    How Much a Dollar Cost

    In Kendrick Lamar’s 2015 Grammy award winning album, ‘To Pimp a Butterfly,’ there is a track, ‘How Much a Dollar Cost’ which provides a commentary on our society and morality. The track begins with Kendrick rapping about a beggar who approached him, while he was filling up the tank of his luxury car. The beggar…

  • Economic Progress or Sustainable Prosperity?

    Economic Progress or Sustainable Prosperity?

    Economic growth refers to a rise in the GDP of the country, such as due to a rise in production of goods and services in the economy or maybe due to an increase in employment in the country. Sustainable prosperity would mean operating in such a way that lives of future generations are not put…

  • Is banning plastic the best solution?

    Is banning plastic the best solution?

    Over the years, we have been so selfish – destroying the planet and not thinking about the future generation. From wasting water to using harmful fuels, we have done it all, but the use of plastic might be the most heinous crime yet. Fortunately, the Government has contrived a movement for the betterment of the…

  • Let Us Build Bridges

    Let Us Build Bridges

    As an educationist any aspect of change in the teacher student relationship impacts me deeply and leads me to introspect and reflect on my role in modern day India. We have long been proud of our traditional methods of education and such hallowed relationships like the one between the teacher and the learner (the guru and the shishya)…