While reading Chapter 1 of her Computer Book which says 'Machines are man-made things'.
Mishti - Mamma what is man-made?
Me - The things which are made by human beings.
Mishti - But it says 'man-made' means things which boys made?
Me - No the term is just 'man-made'. It means both boys and girls.
Mishti - But Man means Boy no Mamma??
Me- ummm... ya but here it means both..
Mishti is still not convinced.... Anybody who has an answer to this??
16th May 2016
3:00 PM
Mishti came back from school and told all the stories of the day and as a ritual I had to tell mine too.
I asked her if she would like to hear about the poetess of India from the article that we did today on TBI- Hindi.
Mishti : I know Mamma ...it's Rabindranath Tagore.
Me : That's only one... we have many..
Mishti : okay tell me..
This was the article - http://hindi.thebetterindia.com/1854/women-poets-india-list-poetry/
The first name was Kamala Suraiyya and I started reciting her poem...
“Don’t write in English,they said,
English is Not your mother-tongue.
Why not leave Me alone, critics, friends, visiting cousins,
Every one of you?
Why not let me speak inAny language I like?
The language I speak,Becomes mine, its distortions, its queernesses
All mine, mine alone.”
– from An Introduction, Kamala Das.
Mishti - Why did people ask her not to write in English?
Me- Because her mother tongue was Malayalam.
After 10 minutes of explanation on what Malayalam is or why one was supposed to write in her/his own mother tongue...
Mishti : Ya we can write in any language we like... like you are Bengali but you write in English and Hindi :)
