Class Room Report / Day Two

By Bharathi Yegnanarayanan

Our day in class started with the morning newspapers. Each of us could choose a news report and read it out.Vincent D' Souza, who handled this class, suggested that each of us make it a habit to carry a newspaper to class.
There were discussions after a report was read. The idea was to examine what we could learn from each news report. The focus was on getting to know our neighbourhood as well as our city.Many of us were not aware of the many places that were mentioned in the news reports.Vincent suggested that we could carry city maps to class.
The second half of today's session was focussed on what NEWS is all about.It ended with a stress on the need to also cover positive developments. Efforts taken by a community group or social work done by a colony resident could also be great news stories which could recognise the people who were written about and motivate others and create networking too.