what is mayils warning regarding
her diary
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Explanation:
As part of the National Library Week celebrations organized by Hippocampus, I went to Bishops School, Pune, to talk to a 6th standard class about Mayil Will Not Be Quiet (co-authored with Niveditha Subramaniam). We were launching the sequel Mostly Madly Mayil a few days later at the Bookaroo festival, Pune, and I was looking forward to interacting with the children on Mayil and what it is that makes her tick.
It’s only when I got to the school that it dawned on me that this was a boys’ school. Apprehension set in. The extracts from the book that I had chosen for discussion touched on issues like standards of beauty and gender stereotyping among other things. Typically, when we discuss these issues with a mixed group, the girls tend to pick a side and the boys feel impelled to pick the opposite side of the debate!
Arguments and counter-arguments flow and the session becomes a very interactive and lively one. I was worried that in an all-boys atmosphere, there might not be as much discussion. Would they be interested in reading a girl’s diary to begin with? I also wondered if the boys would speak up openly about these issues without the fear of being ragged by their classmates later on. So before we began, I told them to promise me that whatever we talked about in the classroom today would remain an honest discussion and that they were not to use these ‘confessions’ to tease anyone later on. They were quite willing to make this promise though I had to remind them of it now and then during the session when they showed signs of bullying someone who was talking!
When I asked them how many of them were into reading, hands shot up all over the classroom. They said they loved reading Percy Jackson, Harry Potter, Wimpy Kid, Greek mythology, Enid Blyton, Roald Dahl and many more. Many of them said they wrote, too, and a few said they’d been keeping diaries for years now! None of them was willing to show their diaries to anyone else because they’d get into trouble if they did so…this was a good lead into Mayil’s diary as she begins with a warning message to anyone attempting to read it.
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nii jaanti hu mai.......