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“Question 3 ka A part send kar jaldi.” “Haan. Ok Ok.” “B part ka aisa kuch mila Google pe. Dekhna zara” “Haan dekhta.”   Nothing much, just the usual 9 to 1 ‘o’ clock conversations these days. Online Exams , or ‘the super organised forms of formality’, or ‘handwriting improvement courses’ (whatsoever way you find them suitable) have taken over some of our very precious hours these days which could have been better invested in sleeping! Remote learning, digital learning, home learning, e-learning and webinar are the buzz words of the Coronage. But do children really benefit from online? Does online education affect the mental health of children as stated by some experts? Are teachers and students prepared for online teaching? Is ‘digital divide’ an issue? Is online teaching inevitable during this lockdown? Do you think a poor kid is even a bit interested in online lectures or the online-offline debate that is being raised and widely discussed OR rather, she might ...

Okay, Google Meet for Network Analysis and Digital logic Design, WebEx for Maths and Signal Processing, Zoom for Signals and Systems. Accha... And you think it’s all sorted?? NAhhh... . In the very beginning, I found the online lectures damn frustrating and frivolous, like many of you, of course. But the, we somehow adjust and move on , for “Change is the only Constant”. However, the breaks in between subsequent lectures were virtuous enough to be filled with : * an episode of the newly released series , * flipping through a few pages of a novel , * tuning up some melodies, * or, just take a short, pleasant nap . (Each following the earlier in importance) Internships in companies are replaced by those inside the kitchens . People are researching fresh hobbies and discovering new talents.   With physical proximity becoming potentially fatal, virtual environments are the norm.   Due to the pandemic and social distancing norms, teachers around the world are blending offl...

25 th June, 06:57 pm. Just when I’m reading an article, a notif flashes from THE very “Official” classroom WhatsApp group of ours. I hold the humdrum online lectures responsible for unmuting the group, which since the past one year found itself lazy enough to bother me. Anyways, the notif, it’s a notice. Being a peace lubber , I find it better on my part to ignore it. But not everyone. So, here pops up another message from my batch mate “Abey ye kya hai? Phook key rakhe hai kya college wale!” , followed by relevant emojis of course. PANIC! Now I take the pain to have a glance at the notice.  You may also let your eyeballs scrolled over the most cruel statement I encountered this lockdown. I find the case funny enough to stop laughing. Then I pause for a moment and try to recall the subjects which we used to study, back then. Been 4 months, that’s quite a long time; you’ll admit. And now it’s reasonable why the faculties took so much of pain to complete finish our 2 nd sem c...