Sphoorthi Theatre

"Life is a book with lots of unread pages" It is the family, upbringing and values taught or learnt build the "FOUNDATION" for life. For many fortunate ones, all that is essential ingredients for leading ideal life. All of all strive towards it. It is our conscious, or  call it ethics or whatever that guides us in building relationships in the society. Well, each culture, social norms and structures differ from person to person, place to place, society to society , religion to religion and country to country. It is like going round and round, as culture, values, socail norms are all interlinked and inter connected. As far as the ethics is concerned, it is more or else the same in all the society. It is not surprising to see some of the socail norms and values  are similar in most of the society. Hinduism or Hindu Dharma also known as "Sanathana Dharma" propogates higest ethical value of  "TOLERANCE". I find it true over a period a...

I am fortunate to share that around two years I have spent in villages and was also part of Tungabhadra Irrigation Pilot Project-Phase -11. Well, there is where I got the first hand experience of Village life and livelihood. I could smell the fragrance of sweat shed after tilling the field with a plough, sowing, transplanting, spraying pesticides, harvesting and moving to the  market and so on. During, then also many experts and talks on Organic Farming and less use of pesticides, fertilizers where on. In fact, our study also encouraged farmers to go with organic farming and also provided the farmers with seeds and other guidance from experts. Even today, the talks, articles in newspapers, TV shows are on Pesticides and its harmful effects. Don't be surprised that even Mother's Milk is not very safe. A study done by IIT Kanpur reveals that mothers milk contains 800% of harmful pesticides. Today  mothers are feeding to her infants and babies- ...

2012 is known as 'Year of Mathematics' . Other day, during a training workshop, a quaetion was raised how  to teach Mathematics throgh Puppetry. My reply was- 'Puppets can teach Mathematical Concepts like Numbers, Place value and so on verywell '.  'ZERO' the number I took and made a presentation using puppets for class 1 to 111 at Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan's Public School, Jubilee Hills, Hyderabad. This is second time I am using puppets to teach elementary concepts of numbers to children attending primary school. I have noticed an dit has been my own personal experience as a child also that many kids are not confortable with Maths. I am not good at it and as a child, I faced lots of learning disability with Maths and various concepts. However, I did enjoy ALGEBRA and GEOMETRY.  The fear or say it hateredness development towards Maths develops when the concepts are not made clear to the children. I hold TEACHERS and PARENTS ...

May16, 2012 was a hectic day for Sphoorthi Theatre for Educational Puppetry, and Art & Carfts-STEPARC. I personify my Puppet Theatre as my daughter SPHOORTHI. Well, she was born in mid 2003-2004, but got her name registered under Societies Registration Act of 2001 on March 31st, 2005. Since then like an younf infant the theatre is working an dsurving doing some educational and awareness programmes using Puppets. Now is is seven years old and is on her own--Yes!!! Till now Sphoorthi Theatre did puppet presentation in collaboration with other organisations mostly free of cost ( Travel fee is exempted for kids below 5years in Bus/Train and not in plane). Lately, Sphoorthi Theatre has realized not to do for Puppet Presentation/Shows/Plays for FREE. By collaborating with organsiation I could get to learn a lot, Apart from the organisation's aims/objectives/vision/mission/and so on, changes in human behaviour. Long ago, I had studied Socail psychology and Organisation Behavi...