Today [19 June] is national reading day in India. Let me celebrate it with three posters I prepared with the help of Canva.
I’m retiring from teaching for the third time now. 28 Feb 2025 will be my last day at the present school from where I retired twice earlier. The first time was just a formality because when I completed the official age for retirement the school gave me a formal farewell and then shifted my name to another ledger in the account books. Nothing changed really other than the remuneration method. My second retirement was at the end of the last academic session in March 2024 when I decided that I was growing too grotesque for the contemporary teenagers. My young students called it ‘generation gap.’ They assumed that I belonged to the library shelf of the musty volumes of Britannica Encyclopaedia while they belonged to YouTube . They didn’t know that I had a YouTube video in which my cat was an emergent hero. And that there were a few more serious videos too which didn’t get much traction because the youngsters for whom it was meant thought that I belonged to the generation which ...
Beautiful creations Sir !
ReplyDeleteThanks, friend.
DeleteAwesome Sir! 👌🏻
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DeleteBeautiful! I have to learn to use Canva.
ReplyDeleteIt's easy to learn.
DeleteReading is indeed the gateway to knowledge and wisdom.
ReplyDeleteIn this age of internet, we all are reading much more than during the pre-internet days. All those messages and emails and forwards.
However, it's important for all of us to pause and think if what we are reading is worthwhile or not.
I for one have stopped reading / watching / listening to forwards on WhatsApp.
That's just it. What we read matters.
DeleteI can hardly imagine anything more commendable than a National Reading Day. It should become a World Reading Day.
ReplyDeleteThat'd be a good idea.
DeleteCanva is a God Sent! Great posters!
ReplyDeleteYes, I use Canva for various purposes.
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