When the world of cinema draws inspiration from famous books, do we lose something in translation? That is the question Suresh Subrahmanyan grapples with.
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“I will not tell you about the things that give me joy. Instead, I am going to tell you about the things that drive me up the wall; things that others think are fun but what I can’t fathom for the life of me,” writes Parth Pandya. Read on to know what his top picks are!
Vani Viswanathan writes about her vivid dreams and the hilarious details in them that she distinctly remembers. Her dreams give her much enjoyment – both through the dreaming process, and later, when she narrates it to others.
Suresh Subrahmanyan goes on a mining expedition and comes up with nuggets from his life experiences, which provided transient and lasting moments of intense joy and light- headedness.
Is something fun only when it belongs to that moment? Can one enjoy looking back over something and derive fun out of it? Shreya Ramachandran fondly remembers a meeting with her friend at a particularly interesting point of time in their lives.
The word “fun” takes many people back to their childhood when everything, even falling on the cricket ground or skinning their knees, was fun and something new. Himangshu Dutta’s evokes childhood innocence when the world was a wonderful possibility waiting to happen.
Fun as a concept of learning is slowly gaining popularity. And rightly so! Priya Gopal discusses at length about why classrooms need to become centres of fun for learning to become an enjoyable experience for school children.
Suresh Subrahmanyan delves into his boarding school experiences and finds considerable merit in a way of life and learning which is all but lost now.