WHEREVER WE GO, WE CARRY OUR HEARTS, TOO
“As long as I am breathing, in my eyes, I am beginning.” Criss Jami “B oys will be boys.” My student Sanil* simply hates whenever I say this. He gets angry, thinking that I am biased towards him. He belongs to a small batch of five students in which he is the only boy. The classes, as you know, have been happening online throughout the lockdown period. Our girls do not give me any headache… neither when it comes to their attendance nor when it comes to their attention. They join the Zoom sessions without missing any of them and before time… Sanil needs to be coaxed and pushed. The girls show full attention – answering the questions and asking questions… Sanil is not bad in this respect though. God has given him a fine grasping capacity. But, as his parents say and I agree, ‘He doesn’t put his brain into use as far as his studies are concerned’. All these things are okay, tolerable. But, as several of Sanil’s online contemporaries do these days, Sanil, too, does this:...