My experience in demo teaching

Hello friends, here I am going to share my experience of  demo Teaching. Actually I have given two Demo lectures, first at Nandkuvarba Mahila College and second at Sardar Patel Education Institute (Golden Star package).

I was very excited when I gave my first demo lecture at NMC. The staff of NMC had given me topic of Criticism before a week for better preparation, so that I can deal with the class easily. I have to prepare myself for "Functions of Criticism" by T.S Eliot. I have read through many sources and prepared one powerpoint presentation, even if there is no facility of projector. Then I have made hard copy of my slides to teach in non-technical classroom.

Function of Criticism: T.S Eliot from Hema Goswami

I have to deliver lecture around 45 minutes but unfortunately I have finished my topic in 20 minutes and in other 20 minutes I do just interaction. That time students have exams after attending demo lectures, so their half mind is in exam only. That's why they are not so much attentive in class. I notice one thing that student who is sitting in back benches are continuously talking. To catch their attention I have started talking about films because mostly students of young age are fond of films. Then suddenly they have started giving more attention and also answering to my question. My two competitors are PhD Degree holders. So, I was little bit nervous, but when the stage is provided to deliver lecture, then I built full of confident because the stage is not new for me, I used to give presentations during my Masters, I used to spoke in front of many students and teachers. Therefore I gave my best and it was really very amazing experience. I was not selected as a lecturer there and it doesn't make any difference because the process is important then the end result. I have learnt so many new things and that is my fruit of success.


Second time I went to to give Demo lecture at Sardar Patel Institute for High School Teacher. The process is different than NMC because they have not given any book or material earlier to prepare. We have to prepare on the spot before one hour. They have shown me two books and I can select any book of my interest and any chapter or poem from it. I have selected "Vistas", NCERT English book of class 12th. I was lucky because this is the same book which I have studied during my 12th. So I have selected one chapter that is "The Tiger King". I still not forget this chapter because during my study I have learnt "The Tiger King" with full of focus. There I have 30 minutes only but I gave my best and was selected. My main aim is to gain experience of teaching only because I am fresher and wherever you apply experience is must required. There my competitor is much experienced man but because of his low pitch he is not selected. To deal with class full of students around 40, you need high pitch. Now the real journey begins. Now we are in market and we should know that where we stand and what is the value of our education.
Many friends are shocked because they think that I will deal with college only. They used to say that "You are SET clear, so you can get government job easily", the truth is nothing can achieve easily. This is only the first step and you know the lines from Robert Frost's poem "Stopping by woods on a snowy evening" :-
"Miles to go before I sleep........" that is very much applicable to any person.

Film Review: Kalank

5 May 2019

The film Kalank  is directed by Abhishek Varman and produced by Karan Johar, Sajid Nadiadwala, and Fox Star Studios. This can be categorised as family film without any bold scenes. While watching film I have marked many points which raise conflict in the ideologies of Rich and Poor, Man and Woman, Hindu and Muslim. This is not mere romance drama but there is Pre-Partition rumblings.
Flashback technique is used in which Roop (Alia Bhatt) narrates entire events to the journalist and in between the narration, film is taking shape. Costumes, Lights, Camera etc is perfect. Set is highly decorative which catch the eyes of audience. There is one extra scene in which Zafar( Varun Dhawan) is fighting with Bull. That is useless computerized scene and nothing is connected to proceed the story. This is serious scene but makes audience laugh because of bad computer graphics in which the horrible bull is looking funny while jumping just like any animated cartoon.


1. Sacrifice

In the very first scene after "Masaledar song of Rajvadi Odhni" Roop (Alia Bhatt) take serious mode of action. Satya Chaudhary (Sonakshki sinha) the rich Rajputani who is struggling between life and death wants Roop to become life partner of Dev Chaudhary (husband of Satya). Roop denied her proposal because she did not want to sacrifice her dream. But her father forced her to go with Satya because her sacrifice will make her younger sister's life easy.

The second big sacrifice is done by Satya herself because she is sacrificing her husband's love and ready to organise marriage between Roop and Dev.

The third sacrifice is done by Bahaar Begum (Madhuri Dixit) who sacrificed her son for getting love of Balraj Chaudhary (Sanjay Dutt), the father of Dev Chaudhary.

What these women get in return?
The sacrifice of these women leads to the tragic end. They didn't get anything in return, Roop has to spent entire life with Dev and has to forget her lover Zafar, who died while partition. Satya died with cancer and after her death, Dev attracted towards Roop. Bahaar Begum didn't get love by Balraj and lost everything, her son, her hope to get her love back.

2. Patriarchy

Power of patriarchy is clearly visible through the character of Balraj Chaudhary, Zafar, Dev Chaudhary. They make use of women' feeling for their own benefit. They are in ruling power because important family decision is taken by them only. This shows the real picture of society and it will take decades to change the mindset of society. Even women are accepting their rule with happiness.

Zafar, who is illegitimate child of Balraj Chaudhary wants to take revenge and therefore uses Roop, to fool her in his love trap, Balraj easily leaves Bahaar Begum when she becomes pregnant, Dev Chaudhary is ready to marry with another woman.


3. Conflict between Hindu and Muslim (Conflict between Modern and traditional ideas)

The story takes place in Husnabad city, near Lahore, where Muslims are in majority. Chaudhary family is ruling over the majority group even if they are in minority. They are not listening the problems of Blacksmith and wanted to establish huge industry. Dev Chaudhary wants to estanlich huge industry, his thoughts are modern whereas  Abdul doesn't wanted industries because he thinks that with the establishment of industry, there handwork will carry no meaning and they will loose their job. These two characters are holding different ideologies: Traditional and Modern and conflict between these ideologies.

4. Old Archetype of two lost brothers

In these story Dev and Zafar are brothers, but the truth about their relations reveal at the end of the story. Balraj himself tell this truth to Dev. This is common and very old archetype because many films have same kind of story in which two brothers realised their relationship at the end. From beginning they are fighting with each other, but when truth reveals they stop everything and becomes brothers in true sense.

Deconstruction theory

Reading with the aim of unmasking internal contradictions: In this film there is one scene in which Roop is arguing with Satya to learn music from Bahaar Begum. Satya tell her that the place Hiramndi where Bahaar Begum is living is not for noble people. But Roop wants to go there and her obstinacy forced Balraj to allow her to go there. In this scene may be the director wants to prove that in front of women stubborneess no one can win and wants to show women empowerment may. But he fails because even if she is allowed to go, she has to carry servant with her who will notice what she is doing, like a surveillance camera. It means that freedom is given in part not whole. At one hand there is theme of women empowerment and at another there is still some kind of  rule by power structure which doesn't allow them to do what they want to do.  In the next scene when Roop wants to publish her article about the story of Hiramandi then also her story got rejected by her husband. This is another example of patriarchy also. Whatever be the reason behind the rejection, the interpretation come out is that there is not full freedom for women, they got freedom in parts rather than whole.



In the end Alia Bhatt ask to audience that what they have seen in the film because there are number of possible interpretations. Some will look at film as an Political satire, some will think about conflict in religion, some will find it as only romantic film. There are different angles and it depends on the eyes of audience that what they want to look or want to interpret as per their own thinking or belief.