Is predictability becoming part of the older order?
What is predictability – Wikipedia says “Predictability (also called banality) is the degree to which a correct prediction or forecast of a system’s state can be made either qualitatively or quantitatively.”
20 years ago… Shifting jobs wasn’t even heard off. My dad and mom spent their entire life in state government jobs saving for tomorrow than spending. Their lives was predictable – every 30th they got their salaries, they knew what is going to be the rate of kerosene, milk, water, food items, rent, school fees of kids, interest rate for their savings and so on. They knew what needs to be done to save, where they will spend the money next month, how much their saving will give them back tomorrow.
10 years ago… Engineering colleges start swarming the city suburbs. From 40 odd engineering colleges half a decade earlier, the number of engineering colleges when my sister attended counseling became 160… Then the new economy was kicking off…. It was only a couple of years since we got telephone at our home… People were joining IT companies…. My cousin married an IT Engg and he had shifted two jobs and was in his third… There were a lot of hush hush talk “Hey this guy has shifted two jobs so far in 5 years”. Salaries was beginning to soar for a section of population (read IT), LPG cylinders replaced kerosene with prices changing every six months, new terms like inflation, stocks, FIIs, service sectors were becoming prevalent. Ambitions of people started soaring, parents started visiting their children in US, and more TV channels starting airing programs.
Today… There are millions in new age companies in fields like IT / Heathcare / Telecom etc across the county… Service dominates the economy accounting over 50 percent of the economy… New business lines like retail, infrastructure have started dominating the economy… Cricketers are traded like commodity…. Flyovers and freeways are coming up all over the city… Cars dominate the city roads…. Using public transport is becoming outdated… And above all the days of predictability are over… Here after expect your petrol and diesel prices to be changed every month, interest rates to change every three months, continue holding the same job for not more than a couple of years, change your mobile phones every three months, internet connection to become faster every six months, what you learn to become obsolete every two years, and so on and on….
Hello all welcome to the world of unpredictability…. Here people move faster not knowing what lies ahead of them a year from now…. Choices in everything… from job to spouse (but still you get only one)…. Changes in everything every year…. Yesterday orkut… Today facebook and tomorrow convergence of all… Is this change for good or for bad… Wait till the next post… Hope I get some points to write… 
Book Review – The World beyond Marx and Market
This post has remained in my draft for quite sometime now and today i decided to give it life…
The World beyond Marx and Market – by S. Gurumurthy – my favorite columnist is a very small but informative book where he takes a dig at both communism and capitalism and explains the pros and cons of the both philosophies.
Gurumurthy starts the book explaining the evolution of Communism and says that Communists made Marx their prophet, and his book their bible and had so much unflinching faith in it that they never bothered to even think twice before applying it. Then he goes on to explain the similarities between communism and capitalism and says that both evolved from the same belief system of replacing traditional relations and bonds between the people by new relationships based on contracts – free contracts in capitalism and enforced contracts in communism. But according to Gurumurthy the more efficient capitalism won over the less efficient communism.
He explains the evolution of marxian ideology from Hegelian philosophy of thesis, antithesis and synthesis. He goes on to explain that both communism and capitalism are hostile but equally potent and materialistic cousins. Both promote consumption based development of a materialistic society the difference between them basically lying in the ownership of property – with state owning the property in communism and individuals owing it in capitalism. He then explains that capitalism has evolved much much beyond what it started to be when Marx ridiculed it. Today’s capitalism is not owned and operated by capitalists but by educated professionals playing with money which is entirely virtual. This mode of capitalism was never known to and thought of by Marx.
Gurumurthy further adds that the virtual economy of new age is moving wealth from individuals and enriching corporates. through a vicious circle of credit – consumption – debt which ultimately leads to individuals to be on credit and debt throughut their life.
In the later part of the book he explains how the world can look post market and post marx. He quotes certain examples from the Indian model of development based on community oriented development and social equity based growth. He quotes certain unique features of this model from historical facts.
In sum this book is a wonderful read for the weekend and guarantees to be a very informative one too… And for lovers of Gurumurthy posts in Express… This is a one that should not be missed….
Enge Bramanan
Thanks for reading my last blog post was New Yr Resolutions. Don’t ask me how many resolutions I am keeping up. Am trying at the earnest and not giving up. As always never loose heart and keep trying is my current mantra. அடிக்க அடிக்க அம்மியும் நகரும்.:)
So what is this Blog about… Am trying to present a bunch of thoughts from a television soap. Yes am seeing one particular soap with interest nowadays. No prizes for guessing the soap name right. It is same as the title of this blog “Enge brahmanan” – Roughly translating into “Where is the Brahmam“. Many of us might be seeing it, but I wanted to present some snippets given as given by Cho. I think these facts form a part of our belief system.
Dharma (righteousness) – Cho says “Dharma is not standard“. What is dharma to one person can be adharma to another.What I many interpret as right can be wrong for others.
o Does this really hold sense?
o How can dharma have more than one form?
o From where does relative dharma come?
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According to Cho “As long as your heart says what you are doing is right, you are up keeping dharma”. But this does not mean whatever we do can be held as dharma. Some of dharmas he mentioned are raja dharmam (Dharma to be followed by a king), pitru dharmam (dharma to be followed by a son to his father) etc.
I see some merit in this but it is difficult to realise its true significance.
Stitapragyan (One who treats all situations alike) – According to Cho for a Stiapragyan ,”Respect and disrespect” are the same. He takes everything in equal spirit. For him “Sadness and happiness” are the same. He reacts to all emotions in a similar manner.
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One dialogue in the soap is “We are reading geetha but our son is following it“. The person mentioned here is considered as abnormal. He is ridiculed and treated with contempt. And it reinforces one firm belief “Preaching is easy, practicing is tough“.
Nishkaranyam (Not expecting anything in return for performing ones duties) – Very interesting. Without goals we never do anything. So how come we can do anything without expecting somethiong in return. Very tough. But this is what the Geetha has preached. In tamil there is a popular saying கடமையை செய் பலனை எதிர்பார்காதே.
My friend Shoba once said “Perform your duties and live through the results than expecting something in return and getting frustrated in the process“. I realised the truth in this statement on one occassion and since then have been trying to be so. I also see “Happiness lies in doing things we like than doing things and thereby expecting something in return“.
I do not care who wins the war… Does our self proclaimed humanism ever count today?
I asked myself on this very fine Saturday Do we have a pinch of humanism… This was a good day for me… I went to my cousin’s place and we all had a good time… Went out for lunch…
When i entered the hotel two or three sights disturbed me…
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First bright young children had come with their parents for having dinner… I compared this with young injured children carried by their parents in Lanka?
- Second as we were having food i thought of the peole suffering there without food, water and medicine…
That moment was as though a snake stung me… Why are our country men becoming so inhuman…
But what i am not able to think here is is it inhuman or indifference or fear…
- I dont see it as inhuman as we all try to do our bit for the society when it comes to helping others…
- Is it indifference… Sure to some extent… As we are not bothered about what happens in our neighbor place.. We think it is nuisance if we try getting into some affair not related to us…
- Next factor to consider is fear… This certainly plays a big role in such cases… As i go for campaigning for BJP in my area near my house… People caution me Be Careful… Do not get into trouble… But the real thing is there is no need for such fear…
So a combination of indifference and fear that someone will say something is what prevents us from becoming active to protest the mistreatment of Tamils there….. I am consciously avoiding from venturing into the politics of this issue as it will raise many opposing views…. The indifference is there everywhere …. Every political party says it stands by the public… but the public isn’t able to react or help its berth en there… I am getting the sense that more videos that come out on the suffering showing the suffering of people the more the voices will get saner in our part of the world on the human suffering and tortures the people are subjected to…
I remember a conversation that i had with my fren recently…. He said everybody are worse and selfish these days … We never care for those people beyond our close circle of relatives or frens… He said we will not change due to our situations…. I was disagreeing with him an i stated that we can consciously start showing concern for others if we want and as more such sanity emerges the society we live in becomes a better place… But now i am asking myself can we become the way I wanted or will we move towards more insanity as we become more mechanical? I leave it to the readers to decide…. If you come across an answer please let me know….
I have stayed away from adding beauty to this post by posting proper words and cliches… I am just pouring my outbursts here… Move towards sanity is what i think we all need….
Hindu in 21st Century India – Time to rethink your strategy
What am I going to talk now? IS there a reason for a blog with this title. For friends who know me more (I think most people do) will understand why I am writing this. For others, one self confession, am a believer in Hindu right wing thoughts.
Question: What does it have to do in this blog space?
Answer: Am presenting some observations I have made in the past few months.
All are from offbeat stories and subtle messages that are spreading around. But they all imply one fact which I am trying to decipher. Might be at the end of this blog both of us will see the meaning.
One news item I read provoked me to wrote this post now on Tuesday, November 25 and I did not want to post this but finally decided to post it.
Question: Who and what made this sudden provocation?
Answer: A news item in the Hindu (read anti – Hindu) paper read by majority of Macaulay educated (English speaking) South Indians (I stopped reading it a couple of years back).
I guess its readers include some of the people who read my blog too .
The news item read “Andhra government starts a new scheme Subsidy to Christians to travel to holy Jerusalem”. Why does this bother a fellow Hindu. Well the CM is Christian and has introduced a scheme for his people(read Followers of his religion). For those who think “Hey come one, why don’t guys like me leave us free”. The government of Andhra takes billions of rupees given by Hindu pilgrims in Thirupathi and spends on its projects including this. All temples are government controlled and the government can take money from them and spend on its schemes. But the churches are not to be touched and Mosques are not to be looked at. Churches can be run by the their followers but temples will be secular. Minorities can collect funds in the name of charity and hold billions in their trusts and the government will not sorry cannot not ask anything about them. But billions of rupees of Hindu temples will be used for government projects and also minority projects.
Hey why this hatred there has always been such happenings throughout the history. Kings favor the minority. But is 15 crore people a minority? A new meaning needs to be defined for who is minority. Aren’t the Hindus minority in some districts why aren’t they treated special there (e.g. NE States and J& K). Political humbug.
Worse the educated Hindus are always in a mode of self denial. What if some government gives funds to some communities. But the problem is the government never think of extending such schemes to Indians travelling on pilgrimage to remote places like the Kedarnath and Mansarovar. Is this secularism? People say it is. Does secularism mean subsidize or pamper only the minority? Does secularism mean always think of the minority at the cost of majority?
Let us take the secularism debate.
Indian Model : All religions are celebrated and cherished by the state. Have presented the actual facts of celebrating all religions above)
Turkish Model: Religion has no place in public domain. It should always be confined to private space only. No favors in the name of religion. (Irony Turkey is a Islamic country and India is a Hindu majority country)
Reservation meant to benefit the oppressed is extended to include the minorities also. And the drama on reservation is another story altogether I don’t want to get into that here. Does all this make being Hindu less incentivizing in the future. It seems so on the basis of above facts. In the new world of abject materialism is being a minority in India a better choice I guess. Thoughts on these the above are welcome.
New Year Resolutions – At Least try and fail
Welcome to my new post on New year resolutions. I want to thank my friend my friend Shoba for tagging me. And about New Year Resolutions – I have taken quite a few resolutions in the past (not necessarily at the beginning of the year) and as always with me never attempted to keep up. When I started blogging I thought of writing at least two blogs every month, but I am not able do so I took a resolution to stop losing money by investing in markets. But I continue to invest and thereby continuing my losing streak (greed or impatience I am not able to find the reason).
Below are my resolutions and hope that at least my friends will make me keep up my resolutions by keeping a periodic tab on whether I keep up my resolutions.
- Try to live in the present. For me it means a lot.
- Stop worrying about where my career is leading me. Learn more and perform better by putting my heart and soul into whatever I do.
- Take small steps at a time and keep short term goals. I remember Shoba telling me “Measure your success everyday and feel happy about what you have accomplished”.
- Cause of my elation or dejection should be myself not others. For the readers this might sound philosophical. I feel this is important for self development. A point which Vaidy made comes to my mind “We are far better than what we think we are”. என்னை தவிர எவராலும் எனக்கு ஏமாற்றம் எழாது…. என்னை தவிர எவராலும் எனக்கு பேரின்பம் எழாது….
- Exercise regularly. The toughest of all the ones to keep up with.
- One thing I learnt in an academy training. Stop talking … Start listening… Listening is what we are least trained for in our society… I need to start practicing it…
- Learn to read and write my mother tounge Telugu… பாரதி தெலுங்கே சுந்தரமான மொழி என்றான்… I hope i learn that…
- For people who feel all the above are too tough to keep up … one last wish… I stole this from Shoba’s blog… This is very relevant to me too… “At the end of each day reflect back on the day’s events and write down incidents to which I reacted instead of responding and also note down my my emotions associated with various interactions that happened during course of the day.”
Once again thanks to Shoba for giving a compulsion to write a blog. If not this post, I wouldn’t have posted for another couple of months.
For others, thanks for taking the patience to read my scribbling…
Travelogue – Temple Visit to Trichy Part 2
This is a post in continuation to my previous post Travelogue – Temple visit to Trichy – Part 1 . I had finished my previous post with me and Rajeev reachin Trichy after visiting my KulaDeivam temple. Once we reached Trichy we took the bus to Thiruvananikaval, a temple town near Srirangam.
Thiruvananikaval temple is significant as as one of the five Pancha Budha Stalams of Lord Shiva (the Neer Stalam). Two main praharas are there in the temple one for Jambukesvarar & the other for Akilandeswari. It is believed that, everyday Akilandeswari comes to perform puja to the Siva Linga. In continuation of this practice, the chief priest of the Akilandeswari Sannidhi adorns a sari and kreedam to perform the puja. Surrounded by the sounds of Melam & Nadhaswaram, led by an elephant in the front, the priest starts from the Akilandeswari Sannidhi to the Shivan sannidhi. He performs the puja, and heads back to Amman Sannidhi. The elephant let out a roar to welcome the Amman (the priest) back to her Sannidhi. Looking at the Tejas of the petite priest who does the Puja on behalf of Goddess made me envy the amount of punniyam that he had done to be eligible to perform this kind of puja. The Amman with a parrot in her hand resembled Madurai Meenakshi Amman. Ekapadhamurthi, a carving in one of the temple pillars, is a confluence of Brahma, Vishnu and Shivan standing on one leg(ekapadam). I want to refer an interesting incident which my friend narrated to me about Akilandeswari Amman.
“In the 1980s there was a bad drought in the area which left people suffering. The Kanchi Math Sri Chandrasekarenda Saraswati Swamigal, one of the most revered saints of our times, was requested for help. He realized that the suffering of the people was because of the ugram of the Amman. Sankaracharya erected a Vinayagar statue opposite the Akilandeswari Amman Sannidhi. The reasoning of putting Vinayagar opposite to the amman is “When a mother sees her child her anger reduces”. As anticipated Amman’s ugram reduced and the drought was over soon”. I will present more interesting incidences about Kanchi Periva in some other blog”.
After we completed our visit to Thiruvanaikval we proceeded to visit the Samayapuram Amman Temple. Unfortunately, I am unable to present the any historical references here . This temple is one of the most revered ones among the many Mariamman temples in Tamilnadu. Very interestingly the statue of Amman is entirely made from Arraku and Abhisekham is not performed for this Amman. We used some good connections and saw the Amman from very close quarters. Upon completing the visit we headed back to Trichy. Four temples in a single day is an achievement but completing all four within the afternoon is a bigger achievement. On reaching Srirangam we finished our lunch and vacated our room. We headed back to Trichy. From Trichy we travelled to Pudukottai with the of visiting the Bhuvaneshwari Amman temple there.
After an hour’s travel we reached the land of the Thondaimans(Pudukottai). Interestingly, yesterday I was reading an Wikipedia post on the history of the Pudukottai and its yesteryear rulers the Thondaimans. My dad had been in Pudukottai for some time and through him I came to know about the famous Bhuvaneshwari temple there. We reached the temple in time for the evening puja. Not very big the temple is calm and serene. The main deity Goddess Matha Bhuneshwari (a relatively small vigraha) stands tall in her keethi(fame) and elegance. Two brass stupas, Meenakshi Amman and Varahi (an incarnation of Lakshmi) adorn the either sides of Bhuvaneshwari. There is also a big Durgai Amman statue in the temple. Other vigrahas in the temple include Panchamuga Anjaneyar, Panchamuga Ganapathi and many more. This is the only temple (which I have visited so far) with most numbers of Panchamuga vigrahas. After the puja we headed back to the Pudulottai to catch a bus back to Chennai, hoping to return one day to see the beauty and experience the history of this town.
Travelogue – Temple visit to Trichy – Part 1
Thanks for your comments in my previous blog… Through this blog I am starting a new series – Travelouge. Through this series I will share the experiences I am going through whenever I go out of Chennai.
In this first post I am sharing the experiences I had during my recent visit to Trichy. The purpose was to visit some temples in and around Trichy. I wanted to visit my Kula Deivam Subramania Swami temple there. My friend Rajeev agreed to gang up with me. We packed our bags and started.
An eventful train journey is the last I expected on a Friday night. But as always railways stands out with its avatars of comedies and errors. We had booked a Tatkal ticket. The new arrangement in trains with three seats in the side is a problem for passengers and a headache for the TTE. One passenger grew furious after he did not find his name in the chart and the TTE called his E-Ticket printout as invalid. He TTE made the best comedy when he said that the person with a supposedly invalid ticket call and enquire the place from where he had got his ticket, not realizing that it was purchased over the internet. Fortunately for me and my friend, though the seats were changed we identified the new seat numbers and settled down. Later we discovered that there were three persons who were allocated the same seat number in IRCTC online booking. We planned to catch the foto of the people and publish it in CNN citizen journalist (typical IT guy way of fighting for justice). Buy the lighting was a worst and we could not do that.
We talked for some time and as usual with me and Rajeev the topic was centered around one issue which seems omnipresent now. No gifts for guessing the right answers – The recent market crash. We got down in Srirangam just in time otherwise we would have gone to Kumbakonam ) . As we got down a new world was staring at us – the world of power cuts. We heard from the Auto driver that the power cuts happen from 3 AM to 6 AM. I think we are lucky chaps in the city at least. We have a schedule for power cuts that starts from 6 AM. My friend commented that people will be up at 3 AM and scolding the power minister for all these (the word he used kaddupoda sounded apt in that situation).
Now with enough stories in the background I come to the main story I wanna convey my spiritual experience throughout the day. When my friend told me that we can visit four temples in Trichy and one in Pudukottai all within a day I thought we cannot do so. But as I realized at the end of the day, the trip was more fulfilling in experience than any other trip I undertook with the same intent.
As we were nearing a lodge near the temple, there were scores of people waiting for the temple doors to open. Rajeev and I took bath in the darkness as we thought that the temple will get crowded if we start late. As we entered the main door of the temple there was already a big rush to enter the Renganathanswami sannidhi. We were all waiting for the vishwa rupa darshan which eluded me during the last time I visit, I told my mom during the last visit that Rengan did not want to give darshan to us so lets try another time. I was happy that the time had come. Taking the Rs. 50 ticket we got the darshan, but we couldnt see the padam as it was covered for this period for ennai kappu. After that we went to the Thayar sannidhi. There were two vigrahas sree devi and boo devi. As I looked at the grandeur of the temple I thought that it anyone need to spend one week just for seeing and admiring the architecture and feel the Bhakthi of the people who built the temple with such magnificence. Then I remembered some facts that make this temple complex one of the most revered Vaishnava temple in the world
1. This temple is called as Boolokha vaikuntam (abode of Lord Vishnu) as Srirangam is an island surrounded by Cauvery on one side and Kollidam on another (just like Vaikumdam)
2. This temple is one that is revereed by all the Alwars and Vaishnava Acharyas
3. Built by Thiumangai Alwar (Thirumangai mannan), the temple complex is consists of 7 praharas and huge walls that sorround it. I think it was envisaged as a fortress
4. The Renganatha Swami vigraha belonged to the Ishtavakuta vamsa (Lord Rama’s ancestors) and was given to Vibeeshana by Rama. And it reached Srirangam – that is one story on its own
5. The alwars and acharyas were so close to god that Renga used to come down from his abode to hear hymns from them
Some things that caught my attention were
1. The huge walls surrounding the temple
2. The inscriptions written in Tamil and Telugu (yeah true) on the temple walls
3. The huge statue of Garuda in front of Renganathar Sannidhi (I think it was built in competition to Nandhi in Big Temple – Thanjavur Periya Kovil)
After finishing with Srirangam temple we had our breakfast there and started to my Kula Deivam temple which was a bit distant from Trichy. I told Rajeev that it was 10 kms from the city ut actually to get to the main road itself it took us 30 min.
As we crossed the railway crossing gate I told him the temple was 3 kms from there. He gave me a stare.
“What 3 Kms he asked me”. I replied yes.
After hearing some censorable words we started walking towards the temple. There is one place on the way where we get cycle for hire. But our day was not good as the cycles were not available. We continued to walk. On reaching the temple we had darshan. The temple is very small without any grandeur. We prayed to the Lord Subramania Swami and Lord Siva there and sat there for some time to take rest. Then we started to walk back towards the main road, hearing more censorable words from him as we walked. My saving grace came in the form of an auto in the midway. We reached the main road and took bus back to Trichy..
To be Continued…
Outpourings – Forgotten Indians
To start with this blog is basically to pour out my feelings on the state of the society and country. All blogs with the same theme will come with the tag Outpourings. (I stole the title from the name of my friend’s bog. Hope he doesn’t mind). Whom am I referring to as forgotten Indians? Are Indians forgotten so easily? I hope the readers discover the real meaning by the end of this blog.
“HELPLESS” read the headline of the Times of India Chennai edition on 14th Sep 2008. What was “HELPLESS”? Who was “HELPLESS”? I think the people who read the paper better interpret. But I am still confused are Indians “HELPLESS” or is the country as a whole “HELPLESS” in preventing such gruesome instances from occurring.
The blast in Delhi yesterday killed 30, injured 80 read the paper. But as I started remembering the sequence I saw in the TV media the numbers had actually started from 1 dead and 19 injured and it had progressively increased to 30 as I read in the paper and after that also it had increased. I really never bothered to read the final count. Does that really matter?
The state of these civilians is like making every Indian dead just another number to add in the news paper columns, for news channels it helps fill their slots and another instance for a government employee to record the dead and pay them compensation.
So what really matters nowadays is media coverage and what compensation the government gives. Beyond that does anything really matter? These blasts are actually targeted towards killings innocent people in markets when they are densely crowded. The dead are not from privileged background like Jessica Lal or Aarushi Sharma to get coverage in the media. Their presence / demise really don’t seem to matter. If one person from such background dies there is another one from the village to come and replace him.
Am I referring only to bomb blasts? No. What about the three persons killed in T Nagar? What about their fate? Aren’t they too treated in the same shabby way? What am I longing for after all? Give respect to human lives. Don’t make them just another number. Are the lives of these Indians the cheapest available commodity on earth? Aren’t their relatives worth enough for a movement for justice similar to the ones that happened in some cases recently?
Two hours teaching English ….
Till the time I started writing this post, I was thinking what to title it… “My first day as a tutor…” or “The tutor in me…”
Finally I decided why not name it “Two hours teaching English J ….“. Did I imagine myself as a tutor ever before? I wanted to teach somebody what I have learnt. And I believe I have been doing this for a long time. Be it helping my friends with subjects in which I was good (The fact that I was good in only a couple of subject is another thing) or advising them to do better investment planning. But all the experiences till now were one to one help.
When I stood before a class of 40 students in the Thoraipakkam School did I fell as a real teacher? What differences did I feel? I realized that I was there for something I wished I could do, share the things I have learnt with others. Does that mean am good in English? I rate myself at something around 5/10. Does that qualify me to be there? I don’t know. But what I know for sure is that I will continue being a helping hand in some form until someone stops meJ. Was I prepared to do the first class that too in grammar? One area I am really weak. Well that’s anybody’s guess.
I went into the class along with one other friend Karthik knowing pretty well that I might have no answers for some questions and my partner at crime would help me. As it is usual with students, I hoped they might not raise questions. Taking my notes I started writing. When I asked them what a noun was they answered “peyarchol”.
I never understood what it was. Karthik informed me that was how noun was called in Tamil. I pitied myself that I needed help in understanding what “peyarchol” meant. Blame it on my parents who made Hindi my second language or my laziness in learning the finer details of the beautiful language; Tamil has always been elusive to me.
After asking them to mark the nouns in one paragraph we started doing some exercises. These exercises dealt with identifying a noun in a particular sentence. With answers already marked we were confident. But for some questions we had doubts. The noun that I have been learning since 5th STD was out of my grasp.
Then as the class went on we came across more things that we were not confident on. Giving them some exercises to work on we went around seeing if they needed help. The difference between an adverb and adjective was the most difficult one for many students. I tried explaining to some students. I explained them in a way which I felt would make sense to them. My understanding of spoken Tamil came in handy. I explained them in Tamil with one sentence as an example that when any word qualifies a noun it is an adjective. When any word qualifies a verb it is an adverb. What I am not sure is, did I explain them the right thing. At last when it was time for us to leave I felt a sense of relief.
After this experience will I take English class again or should I stop with preparing material to help others do it, I am yet to ponder about that. So far so good I feel.
My initial assumptions and brush with reality:
I assumed that the students will be unruly and very
difficult to control. As always I made a wrong assumption. The students were friendly and forthcoming. It might be good if the students are more open in getting their doubts clarified.
But I understood that one assumption was valid. They need help and we people can be of great help for them
