A SHRIPAD AND A RAMNATH
“Why should I cry for not being an apple, when I was born an orange; I’d be crying for an illusion. I may as well cry for not being a horse.” Donna Williams L ast night, after I ended my long, intense and impatient conversation with one of my students – a 17-year-old boy - my wife, who had overheard the entire conversation, started her own ‘lecture’… “Why do you show your irritation and impatience like this?” she, being my dear wife and conscience-keeper, asked me, “Look, it doesn’t work with today’s young boys and girls.” Today’s young boys and girls? Well, my wife was referring to the ‘owls’ who remain awake the whole night… Who wake up from their beds straight for the lunch… Who think Pandemic is a long, happy holiday etc., etc. I was having tough time convincing this 17-year-old, that 9, 10 and 11 in the morning were not ‘too early’ to schedule an online session for him. He was trying to convince me, on the contrary, that I had to ‘bend according to h...