Islam and India: Student writings on world faiths and recent floods

I asked the students to write about a special memory they had. Munna, a student whose group project was on religion, misinterpreted the assignment and wrote to me: Religion is like memory (for) anyone who cannot see with his eyes, he sees with his mind.
When asked, ‘If there was one thing you would change about [...]

The eraser and other simple poems

At Nalgonda A.P.R.S. Boy’s Residential School the chalkboard eraser is a newspaper. The students unfold the front page, read the headlines, the day’s events are then torn up and the paper is used to erase the board. Is someone willing to donate erasers to this school? The boy’s lessons are wiped out by current events.
Here [...]

A peek inside some notebooks

In an earlier post we shared some storyboards from the notebooks of the boys in Nalgonda.  This week, we will be sharing some entries from the notebooks of the Vijaynagar Colony students.  These are a mixture of drawings of their future ambitions for themselves, as well as some illustrative examples of types of shots (wide [...]

The Power to Change

This week the boys wrote to the prompts:
“If I had the power to change one thing, I would change…”
and
“Some problems in Nalgonda are…”
Below are a few of their answers:
There is one town which I live. My father and I have property and I study in city. When I complete my study in the city I [...]