I had been wondering for a while, what would my first blog on this portal be about.

While conversing with Ms. Geeta Dharmarajan, the founder of Katha, I realised that that the relationship between feelings and learning is is what our first post should be about.

I felt our first post should be about the relationship between feelings and learning, about the connection between the facilitator and the pupil, about the connection between imagination and science, and about everything being a big large story- with small little stories interspersed in between.

Before we move on, here is a little about Katha: Katha is an organisation that has been helping children learn, through stories, since 1988.I have been asked a number of times, if we are a Childrens newspaper company or a robotics company, or a STEM company or a teaching company… Here is the answer, we are a thinking company.

We want our children to think, and there is no way a child can think in buckets and categories.

We want thoughts and imagination to transcend subject barriers, because rasa and shastra cannot be separated.