Tuesday diary

11.02 PM 31/03/2020

My dear diary,

I can talk to you only. It was fully packed day at home. Truly speaking, I miss my school Teachers, classroom and children. I am concerned with the news of online classes. Whether this will replace us? What will be the future of classroom practitioner and instructional leader? With lot of disturbing news of increase in Covid cases in Indian and abroad I completed my story in the morning titled "Lust" and the same story was live very soon. I shared the story on Facebook for my friends. Soon, I received a call from one of my friends. Mr. Mohd and he expressed his unhappiness over the publication of this story. He stated clearly that he didn't like my story. He advised me not to make fun of poor people who are suffering. I explained him this is just fiction it has nothing to do with poor or rich. This story is product of time reflecting the plight and suffering of people from Bihar and UP staying in Delhi. As usual at 9.15 am to 3.30 pm, I was watching TV, Share market news and enjoyed trading. I spoke to one of my admin staff to prepare the salary for this month. He was unhappy with this command. When everybody is asked to stay behind why should I go outside! I asked him to work on his system and share the things online. My diabetics medicine got over yesterday. We the diabetic patients are the easy target of Corona virus. I was really worried and had a dream where I am dead and people are commenting from far places that we should maintain 6 meter distance otherwise they will be the next target. My wife woke me up and informed that she has got the medicine with the help of our directors Mr. & Mrs. Bansal. Thanks god, nothing has happen to me.

I had a webinar session BLUB WORLD WEB TALKS on the topic "No Lockdowns on learning" with Professor Ujjawal K Chowdhury, PVC of Adamas University, Mr. Daksh Gaur, Founder of Blub world magazine and some of school Principals from CBSE and CICSE school. I was given 3 minutes time for introductory statement. We shared our best practices. Again it was hilarious to listen some of the concerned Principal talking about loss of studies and providing students work sheets. They are more worried about or probably unaware of complete shut down that the teachers should work from home, Since they work from home, they should prepare work sheets and video lessons. These people are unable to understand that the new academic year is not yet started. There is complete one year left from April 2020 to March 2021. This is not a normal situation. I think this is the quality time for both children and parents as well. They can help parents and engage themselves in creative, interesting and fun learning. I suggested a few activities such as Regular yoga, meditation, cooking, cleaning or helping parents, some time for online learning with Mangahigh, Literacy planet and students must learn to reflect by writing daily diary. As a teacher, this is the good time for self discovery, meditation, on line course and chatting informally with our students, family and friends. In the same line, I completed another online course from Amity in Cyber Security and In the evening, I practiced yoga for an hour.

In the evening I got a call from my driver that he has reached his home town Kalain. How, when people are not allowed to go out of the room? How could he manage going out from the company main gate or he chose some different pathway from the Jungle. It is 64 Kilometer from this place. I didn't inquire much but I think, he must maintain social distancing otherwise this Covid-19 is friend of no one.

Lumshnong