Introduction A School without an open and active library is like a human being with no centre. S.R. Ranganathan, the founder of the library movement in India calls the school library, ”Truly the heart of the school. Stimulating currents go out of it into every corner of the school.” Can this be done in each [...]
A brief description of me on the Pratham blog referred to me as an occasional blogger. Well! I have to do something about that. So here goes and if you are bored, so be it.
Thanks for the article. It was a coincidence that we came across it and we enjoyed reading it. It also reminded us of the time a couple of years ago. We were working at a boarding school in Dehradun. Mrs Sukumar had just taken over the primary section of the school and had introduced some [...]
Continue Reading: In response to “A Library In The Mountains”
We began by setting a Treasure Hunt in the library. Clues were set up in various books, artefacts and journals for them to find. Skill involved solving the clues as well as familiarity with the library and its collection. Two children presented book talks which helped highlight and introduce those books to the others. Along [...]
On 27 June, Patara was invited by Suresh Jairam’s/Visual Art Collective’s studio, 1 Shantiroad, to participate in a multimedia exhibition on Tibet. The three-day event included the ceremonial drawing of a sand mandala, film screenings, discussions, talks, poetry readings, music concerts, all on the theme of Tibet. There was also the launch and release of [...]
Continue Reading: Update from the Patara Exhibition on Tibet
“Can you help us set up a library?” was the request from Chirag School in the Kumaon Himalayas at Uttarakhand. “On a clear day, you can see the entire Nanda Devi range, as well as Trishul and Panchachuli from around the corner,” the letter added. What was I waiting for? An assignment dear to my [...]
Patara was a pleasantly refreshing experience. The activities are unique, simple, un-fussy and basic. Like the book jacket they made them this year. It is a novel idea and one which can actually inspire children to read more. My daughter and I have decided to make a jacket for every book we read, and on [...]
Some library interactions with the children of the Shraddhanjali Integrated School. This is a school with mainly children who have severe disabilities and is situated in Hennur. After a workshop with the teachers of the school on innovative use and approach to the library, I went to the school along with two young students fromCFL, [...]
Cubbon Park on a bright sunny Saturday morning, hundreds and hundreds of school children converging on the place and just five groups to tell stories every 20 minutes….Sounds like a recipe for disaster? Wrong!!!! Hippocampus, spearheaded by Aravinda and Vimala actually pulled off a gala event where everyone, children, storytellers and parents went home reluctantly [...]
Once upon a time, there was found a small room in a large compound of schools in a town called Chamarajanagara near Mysore. There came to it a team of magic-makers who had the will, the determination and the persistence to make that room a vision and a dream for all the schools, teachers and [...]