Rema T. Das - Mythical Inclusive Education
Rema T. Das is a research
scholar and teaches English in Ranchi, Jharkhand, a tribal land in the
subcontinent of India. She is connected to circles which supports the
downtrodden and often teaches poor children. Her
poems are on social concerns, position and rights for the female, ecocritical
and based on surreal aspects of life depicting Indian culture and traditions.
The tribal concerns are deep since she was born and brought up in Jharkhand
seeing the atrocities and poverty to which they are often subjected to. She
currently works at St. Xavier’s College, Ranchi in the Intermediate section and
tries to teach English to students who come from the outskirts and rural areas
of Jharkhand. As a researcher, she has worked on inclusive education and is
currently taken up Trauma Theory and Partition trauma for her doctoral
research.
Mythical Inclusive Education
Educators
in lockdown
Theoretical
lectures on VDT.
Deep
learning paradigm.
Decolonisation,
Gender, Identity
Subaltern
dialogues and notions of equity
Topics
discussed online.
World
is in shambles, difficult time.
Array
of ideas, objective lines.
Who
cares of pragmatism?
Poverty,
hunger and crime?
That’s
too cliché
Now
Technology chimes.
Transition
from seminars to webinars.
Collection
of certifies,
Diplomas
and degrees all virtually designed.
The
rat marathon continues,
Children
cramming, Debates slamming.
Blame
game still induced.
Information
banks filled with hope.
Empty
hearts discourse.
Dialogues,
ramblings reminiscences lost.
Social
distancing, emotional chaos.
Education
now has failed
No
one can relate, this new idea of normal
World
on a rally race.
Can
we cope up now?
With
the changing times?
Emotionally
barren, rich on drugs.
Children
on anxiety pills
Old
men digging their graves.
Men
affected on ventilator’s gasp
Poor
impoverished cries.
Intellect
blabber still endures
Equity,
Education, Inclusion for All…
Till
a teacher receives a call---
Darkness
in thatched roof ma’am
My
father tills and plods.
I
am poor ma’am
These
classes I cannot afford.
No
electricity in village Ma’am
Of
network failure, the agrarian grumbles.
Marginalised
tribal again left, far, far behind.
This
cry of education for all?
Fragmented
existence, Stark reality-
Our
education system crawls.
Subjugation, discrimination all aligned.