Education sector in limbo on June 17, 2021I recently read an article, “How Much Should Teachers Talk in the Classroom? Much Less, Some Say” by American journalist Catherine Gewertz on both student-talk and teacher-talk concepts in the classroom. The article intends to provide consciousness to the teachers to enquire: Are my series of questions increasing learning? Are classes controlled by my talk? […]
Remembering Girish Karnad on June 10, 2021The beliefs of secularism, societal fairness, and gender parity that Girish Karnad, an Indian actor and author 1938-2019, verbalised without dread are echoed in the dramas he composed. In his absence, we can explore these for a better vision and amusement. When we do so, we furthermore recuperate Karnad’s views on gender, noticeably expressed in […]
Theatre and societal conscience on trial in Pakistan on August 6, 2020It is the need of each discipline or vocation to be useful to its society and add to its progress and improvement, and theatre is not an exemption to this superior concern. Theatre prides itself in being more than absolute entertainment, a bit of departure to which we turn when we are drained of the […]