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Open your ears, tap the screen, switch on the radio, turn on the news channel… all of them are taking a toll on us. Even the strongest of us are faltering, even if it is only for a moment. Events triggering optimism have become vital for survival. Numerous influencers have highlighted the importance of creating content and working even in this situation. It may sound insensitive, but on the contrary, we need this stuff. We need something to make us smile, to divert the mind and to think clearly. After all, as Zig Zaglar puts it: A healthy mind breeds a healthy body and vice versa. Today I am here to simply share something that triggered optimism in me and as Robert Frost puts it: Has given my heart, A change of mood. I was conducting an online class after which I bid goodbye to my students. As they were leaving the meeting, I called out to a student and told her that she almost sounded like her elder sister. I added that it was confusing for anyone who would hear the younger one ...

  March 2020 had us marching in an unknown direction. Locked movements and heavenly freedom from studies for students. Dig deeper and you’ll realise that the virus revealed who really cares about knowledge and who doesn’t. Lectures happened online and you know it, half of the students were on YouTube on another tab “attending the lecture”. Education was literally brought to your computers to avoid loss of knowledge. This situation was a double-edged sword. If there were students who went away from studies, there were many who embraced the situation to do things which otherwise in a normal situation would be next to impossible; most probably due to lack of time. Time saved, students took full advantage of the situation. As teachers, many of us got lucky during this period. We ended up honing our skills and learning new stuff, reading new books, and got into various other activities. It provided us time to go beyond just teaching. Classroom teaching was replaced by online teach...