In an earlier post I had I had mentioned that I hate poems and poets. Now I know why I hate them. Now I understand why I hate most of the things I hate. I attended a session on parenting from a well known psychiatrist in Trivandrum. He talked about brain readiness. Children are not supposed to walk until they are around 1 yr old. We dont force them to walk before that. We will never say to a 6 month old child “Hey you have...

I am not a huge fan of poems, but i can appreciate a simple one. And Im sure Ill not be writing one this life time. Till class 4 the poems were ok. I had enough knowledge to read them and understand atleast 50% of the whole stuff. But from 5th class onwards poems started to become nightmares. All those so called big poets, with their sanskrit mixed ‘superior’ language poems were too hard to digest.  There were poems...