BBC Indian School documentary
A BBC World programme that recently aired during the India-Pakistan ‘07 (60th anniversary) marathon. My school, Rewachand Bhojwani Academy, is one of the two schools featured.
This programme focuses on Bhojwani Academy, an alternative school catering to Pune’s more liberal middle class families.
A message posted on the school site:
RBA and Pune featured on BBC
Yes, RBA is on the air! We have been validated by no less than BBC. As is well known, 5 directors from Lion TV UK spent the whole year in Pune last year to cover everything that happens in a typical school year in India. Well here we are then… on International TV, getting e-mails and telephone calls from everywhere, telling us how much everyone appreciates the work of RBA.
We are not of course about to rest on our laurels. The challenges continue, and our persistent effort to meet them do as well.
INDIAN SCHOOL will be available to Indian viewers from 3rd August on BBC WORLD.
Do visit the Open University site to know more about INDIAN SCHOOL.
5 comments
It sounds like a cool school! It kinda gives me an idea of what my school-days would be like if my parents hadn’t moved to America after they got married. It’s a different style of learning, for sure!
I really inspired by this type of reality shoecase.
Its really true that in these days in urban area devoloping fast and faster so the new generation don’t know what is rural area,they don’t know how life is diificult over there without electricity.
I really congratulate all of them who participeted in such progrrame and to those who made it.
I request to bbc to advertise it so hugly that every one will be able to see it.
because in here very few people watch BBC.
Thank you for this wonderful programme.
This is awesome, Smaran. I’m thrilled to see a video of Pune. Sometime next year, I hope to go and catch up again.
Just finished watching this. I was very impressed with the way Madhavi Kapoor and her team of teachers treat her children. A couple of other schools in and around Pune follow this model, and I hope it spreads to the more regimented schools. I believe that, all things being equal, a child from such a school stands a chance of being more creative in his later life.
At the same time, some part of me is concerned because I see a slight amount of indoctrination. It isn’t explicitly religious, but the line between spirituality and religion is thin, and the assumptions made by the meditation teachers bother me a little. I agree that meditation is useful but wish that it were taught without invoking God.
Thanks very much for the link. Made me very happy to see something about Pune.
Just so you know, the whole meditation thing had just started when I was in school, and me and my classmates were always fooling around during the “class”.
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