"Chellamma", my great grandmother's name...

                        March 22- World Water Day

When we were learning about cultural diffusion in our philosophy class today, when our teacher gave us a simple thought to ponder on. It was to consider oneself as living some centuries back and think if their names would be the same as the present times. 

That was a brilliant example to show how we have had incorporated overtime cultures from all over India, diffused and evolved, to name children in the present times. We don't posses names that were prevalent centuries back. This is how cultural diffusion works. It is a means of accepting ideas, customs and beliefs and accepting it as our own.

Our teacher brought us to the realization that whenever a question of caste arises, one shouldn't categorize people as lower castes, which is not proper when the phrase is taken other than Harijans, rather the community should be collectively called the 'so-called lower castes'. Because now people are more educated and culturally forward that the phrase has no meaning or sense in the current scenario.

The day progressed with microteaching. Our Principal continued the class on the different skills of teaching, mainly skill of questioning. The class was indeed interesting... with sir citing examples of what a teacher can expect from asking a question to a student...when asked for the chemical formula of water...the student confidently replied, HIJKLMNO😂... Our sir pointed out that a teacher should never expect a definite and apt answer from their students, and that we should probe and redirect them to their answers.