Category: Hear from Our Students
#TeacherBlogger: Think Before You Type By, High School English Teacher, Ekya JP Nagar
Think before you type It all began with ‘roasting’. Being a foodie, ‘roasting’ to me meant only one thing: marinated vegetables, fish, or meat cooked over slow heat to produce a heavenly gastronomical experience. Again, I was wrong! Roasting, as...
#StudentBlogger: Online School And How To Get Through It By, Siya Heda Grade 11C, Ekya ITPL
More than a year into the pandemic, online schooling has become the new normal for education. However, the entire last year felt like a temporary thing – and we were all thinking about how we’d be back in offline school...
#TeacherBlogger: Self Discovery By, Ashalatha Chatterjee Middle School Science Teacher, Ekya ITPL
What is self-discovery? Well, the act or process of gaining knowledge or understanding of your abilities, character, and feelings is termed or defined as self-discovery. There are certain rules for self-discovery, they are 1. What do we want most? 2....
#StudentBlogger: If I Had 3 Wishes By, Claire Jacob Grade 4, Ekya Byrathi
If I Had 3 Wishes I have many wishes. I pray that some of them may come true. Out of all the wishes, three are most important for me. My first wish would be to ask God to grant me the...
#TeacherBlogger: The Legacy Of Writing By, Rituparna Gupta High School Teacher, Ekya BTM Layout
Writing is an essential life skill. It has been rightly said by Anais Nin, “We write to heighten our own awareness of life. We write to lure and enchant and console others. We write to taste life twice, in the...
#StudentBlogger: Exploring Magazines On Booknook By, Lisa Alex Grade 4, Ekya Byrathi
‘A truly great magazine cover surprises, even shocks, and connects in a nano-second Book Nook has a variety of magazines, there are different types of magazines which you will love to read. There are magazines on animals, geography, culture, festivals,...
#StudentBlogger: Sow Heartly! By, Skanda P Grade 10, Ekya JP Nagar
Sow Heartily! “The love of gardening is a seed once sown that never dies” I started gardening from the time the coronavirus pandemic started and it has been a wonderful journey so far. The benefits provided by this hobby are...
#StudentBlogger: Don’t Judge And Discriminate By, Lekhana Harish Grade 11A, Ekya BTM Layout
On 15th April 2014, the Supreme Court gave a historic and revolutionary judgment in the National Legal Services Authority (NALSA) vs Union of India case, identifying transgender people as the “third gender” in India. According to this judgment, transgender people...
#StudentBlogger: The Science Behind Patience By, Lekhana Harish Grade 11A, Ekya BTM Layout
Did you know that in the 1600s, many Puritans (English Protestants) named their daughters “Patience” because it was and still is an amazing virtue? Patience is the ability to wait calmly in the face of frustration or adversity. Like when...
#StudentBlogger: मेरी मातृभाषा मेरी पहचान By, Ritu Kumari Jain, Ekya JP Nagar
मेरी मातृभाषा मेरी पहचान ‘भाषा’ मनुष्य की अभिव्यक्ति का सर्वाधिक महत्वपूर्ण एवं व्यापक माध्यम है l भाषा शब्द संस्कृत के “भाष्” से उत्पन्न हुआ है जिसका अर्थ है ‘ प्रकट करना’ जिस माध्यम से हम अपने मन के भावों को, मस्तिष्क के विचारों को, बोलकर (वाणी के माध्यम से ) प्रकट करते हैं उसे भाषा की संज्ञा दी गई है l भाषा का प्रथम रूप मातृभाषा है। “ मातृभाषा का शाब्दिक अर्थ है- माँ से ग्रहण की गई भाषा” जिसे बालक सर्वप्रथम माँ से सीखता है और जिसके माध्यम से वह, परिवार एवं समुदाय में, अपने विचारों की अभिव्यक्ति करता हैl यूनेस्को (2007) के एक सर्वे के अनुसार यदि बच्चों को उनकी प्रारंभिक शिक्षा मातृभाषा में प्रदान की जाती है, तो बच्चे पढ़ाई के प्रति अधिक रुचि दिखाते हैं । बच्चों का स्कूल में दाखिला, अधिक संख्या में होता है तथा उनके माता-पिता भी, संबंधित शिक्षकों से, बच्चों की पढ़ाई के संदर्भ में वार्तालाप कर पाते हैं। इस प्रकार हम समझ सकते हैं, कि मातृभाषा व्यक्तित्व के विकास की वह आधारशिला है जिस पर उनके जीवन का एक माहौल तैयार किया जाता है । अगर आधारशिला कमजोर हो तो भवन खोखला सा पड़ जाता है । उसी प्रकार यदि बालक, अपने विचारों की अभिव्यक्ति सही अर्थों में नहीं कर पाता है तो, उस बालक का मानसिक तथा शारीरिक विकास पूर्ण रूप से नहीं हो...