Tag: Neelesh Misra

  • My close brush with edtech in India

    Mr. Bajaj has already influenced education, childhood and parenting in millions of Indian homes with a controversial and deceitful advertising blitz, in the process becoming so successful that it launched a new segment called “edtech” in the Indian startup skies and spawned an array of similar companies that competed to invade the childhood and education of Indian children in a way that had never been done before.

    Nilesh Misra, The man next to me at the school gate

    I, too, had been influenced by his books. Although I was sure 3 was not an age to teach my daughter coding, I too suffered from FOMO.

    We were saved because the whole thing unraveled as Nilesh Misra has written in the article above.

  • Time Machine with Neelesh Misra

    I just took advantage of the fact that I was down with a fever-cough-cold combination to listen to Time Machine with Neelesh Misra. I stumbled on to the show while looking for something to listen to whilst lying bored in bed.

    Mystical retelling of the Mahabharata and Ramayana like those of Ashok Banker’s Prince of Ayodhya and Ten Kings are finding favour with a growing audience, it is sometimes lovely to hear these mythic story in their original. Neelesh Misra narrates stories written by members of his writer’s group called Mandali in this series on Saavn. The story telling is compelling with sound effects that we would have imagined as kids listening to the tale from our grandmothers lending the dramatic touch. Misra made me feel that in losing the art of storytelling, we have lost something significant in our busy life.

    I shared it both with my wife and my brother and thought I should share it with you as well. If reading is not your thing, maybe listening to these stories might bring back fond memories.