English Common Course and the Floods
When the first time I heard the term Mega Floods, I was in the middle of packing my breakfast. The television set was blaring news about the nonstop raining in Kerala and the water that was unstoppable. Most of the rivers were overflowing. Villages and cities were underwater. My house was situated near the sloping-side of a plateau. I feared everything. I was afraid of every drop of rain that fell on our land. The flood wasn't going to affect us. But landslides could kill us all. This was in the year 2018. Two years later, in 2020, I was teaching a class of forty students about Ecosystem. My subject was English. The course I was teaching was the English Common Course titled Readings on Life and Nature . The class was going strong. Everyone was engrossed in the text. That was a rare happening. I was telling them about the relationship between the non-living and the living elements of nature or ecosystem. Strangely, students were interested in knowing about nature, as if...