Online Learning: Support Service Framework for Students
By Ananya S Guha
Effective teaching can be done by intuition and by understanding intuitively the levels of comprehension that exist in a classroom.
Book Review: Ananya S. Guha’s ‘I am not a Silent Poet’
By Arzuman Ara
Ananya Guha’s collection of poetry, ‘I am not a Silent Poet’, is a strong criticism of the politics of otherisation, of insensitiveness, of hatred with a plea for love and peace.
Poem: COVID-19
By Ananya S Guha
We shake in fear, morning
afternoon, evening
Only night gives respite, but shadows
walk across dreams.
The Public Voice: Selection in place of Election?
By Ananya S Guha
Yes, we select not elect. We have selections not elections. We have no political parties but goodwill bodies who will think of the common good not divisively but wisely. Can we do that and subvert tradition, the kind of tradition that has brought money power and crass division in its wake?
Poem: Slices of a hometown
By Ananya S Guha
I cup palms, fold hands
into a prayer of hope,
that these hills do not turn bestial
or run away with my trifling, opaque
dreams of a town which my eyes
search every day, for change
The paradoxes of social media spaces
By Ananya S Guha
If internet connectivity through the mobile phone has created wider spaces of information and knowledge, it has also shrunk those spaces in the most harmful of ways. However much we talk about education abetted by technology, e-learning, and online learning, this hasn’t led to a holistic education that can counter hate, prejudice, and bigotry.
Shillong’s Tribal-Punjabi Conflict: A Struggle for Survival
By Ananya S Guha
The penchant of the media to rake this up as a Dalit issue is to politicize it and fit it into the overall politics of the country, where Dalits are attacked in various parts the country. It is not the case in Shillong. It is a local issue over a conflict of interest. It is also not an ethnic clash, because of the same reason.
What ails our perception of North East India?
By Ananya S Guha
A lot of discussion on North East India is focused around questions of politics, identity, society, and even literature. Seminars are held all over the country generating debate and polemics. Many of the seminars and conferences only result in producing books, which publishers from Delhi, eyeing the academic market, take advantage of.
Who is a ‘Citizen’ in Assam?
By Ananya S Guha
By protesting against the Bill, the civil society and social bodies in Assam have expressed their apprehension that it is going to be used mainly to stop Muslim migration. This a very just appropriation of matters, and will certainly take the central government by surprise. The BJP government in Assam might have thought that after the victory in the assembly elections, there would be no reaction.
Poems: Kathua and Unnao
By Ananya S Guha
And her killers, her killers
are they too wandering
or pimping in the temple
aflame with blood?
Are our students (and their parents) victims of a rat race?
By Ananya S Guha
We can have no right to education until and unless the classroom is free from tension and false sense of competition. And the less the parents intervene, in the guise of vicariously undertaking their own studies, the better.
Desecration of statues and our incurable national schizophrenia
By Ananya S Guha
More than dismantling of statues, it denotes the dismantling of diversity and history, which is part of a larger game plan. It is a slow poisoning of the mind in order to demolish any remnant of civil discourse.
Cafe Dissensus Everyday 