Beyond Words
So remember when I told you that my mom would eventually get tired of seeing my face around the house? Yeah well, that happened barely 4 days after my break ( post exams) commenced. So much for a staycation, amirite? And so that’s how I started my internship at Sharada Trust as an elocution teacher. For the uninitiated, Sharda Trust a Arvind Group Initiative, based out of Ahmedabad and works for upliftment of urban poor in the areas of Basic Infrastructure, Health care and Education, inter alia. I always thought that teaching was a demanding profession but, holy cow! on the very first day, I was tasked with shortlisting students to teach elocution which triggered memories of my own school days when we used to get all excited and pumped up whenever teacher informed us about some inter house / inter school competition and became super competitive during its selection. It tested already fragile friendships and well, some survived most didn’t (I might hav...