Jnana Prabodhini school in Pune initiates e-learning

Students of five city schools on Monday interacted with famous poet and lyricist Sudhir Moghe via Internet and videoconferencing.  The city-based Jnana Prabodhini school had organised this unique event. 

During the interactive session, Moghe’s famous song Phite Andharache Jale also came up for
discussion.  During his interaction, Moghe advised the students to lay emphasis on concentration. 

“Each of you should concentrate whether you are seeing something, reading or listening to others. Learning to concentrate will help you in future. One should be inspired by his own self and not by someone else. Self-encouragement is the most important aspect to success,’’ said Moghe. 

Apart from students of Jnana Prabodhini School, the students of Renuka Swaroop High School, Swami Vivekananda School, Poona Blind School and Modern High School also took part in the event. 

This was one of the first attempt to use the Internet and video conferencing in the e-learning module of the school. 

A visually impaired teacher, Vijay Navale, had proposed this project as an attempt to reach across schools at one time without the barrier of vision.

The students could question the teacher from any school at the same time. 

Navale, who is visually impaired, stood in front of the students in a 100 seater auditorium of the host school and explained the intricacies of the poem, Phite Andharache Jale, in great detail.

Moghe spoke about his entry into films as a lyricist. He narrated his experience of sharing his poetry and when some of the film’s music directors heard it in song format, they approached him to convert them into a song for the film, Lakshmichi Paule. 

Commenting on Phite Andharache Jale, he recalled that the idea to pen the poem, which was later made into a song, came to him when he was travelling in a train and reached the ghats of Khandala at dawn. 

“Like every day, I saw the sunrise. But this was the time when I felt that the darkness has gone to bring in the new light of the day and hence, I wrote the poem,’’ he added.  When questioned about the negative impact of darkness, Moghe explained,

“The poetry needs to be understood in a context and not applied everywhere. I never say that darkness is bad, it has its own beauty and positiveness. But in the context of this poetry, it meant that troubled times are drowned in new light.’’