Hero In Your Mind

Who doesn't love sale? It makes the things we have been planning to buy, affordable. The red hoardings with 'SALE' written on them in bold and the advertisements that prompt us to rush to the store to not miss the products we love, create an urge and make us overwhelmed. It's a great deal between consumers and capitalists as the consumers get to buy things at lower prices and capitalists get to clear the lot which seem to be not sold anymore at the specific rate (number of products sold/ unit of time) and/or specific price. The motive of a producer to sell a product at discounted price is apparently to bring in new products and earn more profits. No capitalist sells his/her products at discounted price because he/she loves the consumers. Yet, it's a win-win situation. Here in Jaisalmer, I'm working for improving Student Learning Outcome of the students in government schools. Jaisalmer is as big as Kerala, but has density of population as low as 19 persons/ s...

I've been visiting the rural areas of Jaisalmer district, Rajasthan for over a couple of months now in which I visited a single village for one whole month. Most of the kids attend the same school along with their siblings. A kid is enrolled in school at the age of six but are allowed to attend school even before that. Kids younger than the age of six attend school and learn from their environment and are not actually taught. I adore sibling relation, be it of opposite sex or same sex. But the relation I found remarkable here was older sister and younger brother relationship. Most of these sibling pairs do not have much age difference between them. Typically it is two to four years. But what would stun you is how much the girl cares for her brother. She literally becomes a mother for her brother at such a tender age. She studies while she caters to the needs of her brother and even the little boy follows her everywhere she goes to. I find no words to describe that unadulterated l...