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Subject: Re: [EnglishSTF-8760] (the dangerous) world of Chhota Bheem -
TheHindu, Meenakshi A.
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On 8/28/17, Padmini Ns <[email protected]> wrote:
> Sir/ madam please send me 10th english action plan
> On Aug 27, 2017 9:39 AM, "Gurumurthy K" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Dear teachers,
>>
>> the world of animation/multi-media is a powerful one for
>> students/learners
>> ... but it is only a medium of learning ... and can be as harmful as
>> useful
>> .... read article below from Hindu, today.
>>
>> Can we make simple animation films which bring life and life's lessons to
>> our learners? and make these with our students .... I think this can be
>> an
>> important method of learning in the age of ICT. And something that is
>> perhaps doable, see http://troer.telangana.gov.in/OER/index.php/Category:
>> Communication_with_graphics for some ideas/lessons
>>
>> regards,
>> Guru
>>
>> source thehindu.com
>> <http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/open-page/world-of-chhota-bheem/article19566644.ece/amp/>
>>
>>
>> Chhota Bheem’ narrates the story of the valorous nine-year-old Bheem, a
>> persona loosely based on the eponymous character in Hindu mythology known
>> for strength. Little Bheem lives in the fictional city-state of
>> Dholakpur,
>> and in each television episode, when faced with various perils, he
>> proceeds
>> to tackle them with the help of his friends Chutki, Raju and Jaggu
>> Bandar,
>> the monkey.
>>
>> Despite the lifeless animation and dim plotlines, the show currently has
>> at least 40 million viewers, and Chhota Bheem merchandise from toothpaste
>> to toys flood Indian stores. Though the producers of the show have had
>> extraordinary success, hardly anyone has ventured beyond the ‘fun’ and
>> ‘excitement’ it offers children to analyse the sexist, racial, linguistic
>> and other discrimination deeply embedded in the show.
>>
>> Gender bias
>>
>> The gender bias is explicit: Chutki has the fairest skin of all the
>> characters and has two pink spots on her cheeks. She “loves playing with
>> the boys but also is very feminine and keeps herself busy with all sorts
>> of
>> arts and household chores”, describes the official website of the show.
>> She
>> never participates when physically strenuous fighting or other kinds of
>> movements are involved. The sheer violence displayed by Bheem,
>> masquerading
>> as “teaching the villains a lesson”, is unnerving and he is an epitome of
>> the macho male (or as much of a macho male that a nine-year-old can be).
>>
>> Bheem has a rival in his village, Kalia. It may not come as a surprise
>> that not only him but most other villains in the show are dark-skinned.
>> In
>> an episode emulating *Jack and the Beanstalk*, the giant is dark-skinned
>> and wears tiger skin.
>>
>> Racial prejudice
>>
>> There is reason to believe this racial prejudice historically comes from
>> the antagonism between the expansionist invaders of the ancient times who
>> lived in agricultural city-states and the dark-skinned tribes, who were
>> forest-dwellers. Due to this, the *rakshasa*, or the demon, in the
>> literature of the “civilised” and settled agricultural communities, is
>> identified with the tribal forest-dweller; and the giant in the story, a
>> *rakshasa*.
>>
>> Curiously, even as Bheem saves an elephant from a cruel hunter and is
>> proclaimed a hero, in other episodes he beats up hyenas, fights tigers
>> and
>> attaches fireworks to a lion’s tail, simply because the last three were
>> ‘threats’ to his friends. This imposition of values of who is ‘good’ and
>> who is ‘bad’ on to the animal world no doubt makes the little viewers
>> internalise certain erroneous notions.
>>
>> On linguistic lines
>>
>> An episode of particular interest to me was one where Bheem and his
>> friends visited Kerala on an adventure. It was interesting to note how
>> linguistic ‘othering’ was an important way of constructing the identity
>> of
>> Malayalis. In the Hindi version of the episode, the Malayalis spoke Hindi
>> (the language Bheem and his friends speak) with an accent that sounded
>> odd,
>> and many of them were caricatures that exclaimed *aiyo* from time to
>> time, meant to evoke mirth. Kalia wants to learn Kathakali, a performance
>> art form native to Kerala, and he is ridiculed.
>>
>> In another episode, *Dancing with the Tribes*, the image of the ‘tribal’
>> cannot be more stereotypical, and their language is gibberish. Bheem and
>> his friends make fun of them by attempting to imitate them. Bheem also
>> goes
>> to meet the Incas, aliens and many other groups in various episodes. But
>> every visit is necessarily based on some sort of conflict or antagonism,
>> the message being, ‘what is different is to be fought’.
>>
>> Way to enmity
>>
>> From all this it seems to me that while superficially trying to make
>> other
>> ‘cultures’ familiar to viewers, all it does is essentialise them and
>> inculcate an intuitive aggression or enmity towards them. Behind the
>> guise
>> of educational tales about multiple cultures lurks a blatantly sexist,
>> racist and essentialist show. It claims to teach children values and
>> morals, but in truth cultivates biases and perpetrates stereotypes. Is
>> this
>> what we want our children watching, especially in times such as those we
>> are in today?
>>
>> [email protected]
>>
>>
>> IT for Change, Bengaluru
>> www.ITforChange.net
>>
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>> 1.ವಿಷಯ ಶಿಕ್ಷಕರ ವೇದಿಕೆಗೆ ಶಿಕ್ಷಕರನ್ನು ಸೇರಿಸಲು ಈ ಅರ್ಜಿಯನ್ನು ತುಂಬಿರಿ.
>> - https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSevqRdFngjbDtOF8YxgeXeL
>> 8xF62rdXuLpGJIhK6qzMaJ_Dcw/viewform
>> 2. ಇಮೇಲ್ ಕಳುಹಿಸುವಾಗ ಗಮನಿಸಬೇಕಾದ ಕೆಲವು ಮಾರ್ಗಸೂಚಿಗಳನ್ನು ಇಲ್ಲಿ ನೋಡಿ.
>> -http://karnatakaeducation.org.in/KOER/index.php/ವಿಷಯಶಿಕ್
>> ಷಕರವೇದಿಕೆ_ಸದಸ್ಯರ_ಇಮೇಲ್_ಮಾರ್ಗಸೂಚಿ
>> 3. ಐ.ಸಿ.ಟಿ ಸಾಕ್ಷರತೆ ಬಗೆಗೆ ಯಾವುದೇ ರೀತಿಯ ಪ್ರಶ್ನೆಗಳಿದ್ದಲ್ಲಿ ಈ ಪುಟಕ್ಕೆ ಭೇಟಿ
>> ನೀಡಿ -
>> http://karnatakaeducation.org.in/KOER/en/index.php/Portal:ICT_Literacy
>> 4.ನೀವು ಸಾರ್ವಜನಿಕ ತಂತ್ರಾಂಶ ಬಳಸುತ್ತಿದ್ದೀರಾ ? ಸಾರ್ವಜನಿಕ ತಂತ್ರಾಂಶದ ಬಗ್ಗೆ
>> ತಿಳಿಯಲು -http://karnatakaeducation.org.in/KOER/en/index.php/
>> Public_Software
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> 1.ವಿಷಯ ಶಿಕ್ಷಕರ ವೇದಿಕೆಗೆ ಶಿಕ್ಷಕರನ್ನು ಸೇರಿಸಲು ಈ ಅರ್ಜಿಯನ್ನು ತುಂಬಿರಿ.
> -
> https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSevqRdFngjbDtOF8YxgeXeL8xF62rdXuLpGJIhK6qzMaJ_Dcw/viewform
> 2. ಇಮೇಲ್ ಕಳುಹಿಸುವಾಗ ಗಮನಿಸಬೇಕಾದ ಕೆಲವು ಮಾರ್ಗಸೂಚಿಗಳನ್ನು ಇಲ್ಲಿ ನೋಡಿ.
> -http://karnatakaeducation.org.in/KOER/index.php/ವಿಷಯಶಿಕ್ಷಕರವೇದಿಕೆ_ಸದಸ್ಯರ_ಇಮೇಲ್_ಮಾರ್ಗಸೂಚಿ
> 3. ಐ.ಸಿ.ಟಿ ಸಾಕ್ಷರತೆ ಬಗೆಗೆ ಯಾವುದೇ ರೀತಿಯ ಪ್ರಶ್ನೆಗಳಿದ್ದಲ್ಲಿ ಈ ಪುಟಕ್ಕೆ ಭೇಟಿ ನೀಡಿ
> -
> http://karnatakaeducation.org.in/KOER/en/index.php/Portal:ICT_Literacy
> 4.ನೀವು ಸಾರ್ವಜನಿಕ ತಂತ್ರಾಂಶ ಬಳಸುತ್ತಿದ್ದೀರಾ ? ಸಾರ್ವಜನಿಕ ತಂತ್ರಾಂಶದ ಬಗ್ಗೆ ತಿಳಿಯಲು
> -http://karnatakaeducation.org.in/KOER/en/index.php/Public_Software
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1.ವಿಷಯ ಶಿಕ್ಷಕರ ವೇದಿಕೆಗೆ ಶಿಕ್ಷಕರನ್ನು ಸೇರಿಸಲು ಈ ಅರ್ಜಿಯನ್ನು ತುಂಬಿರಿ.
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https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSevqRdFngjbDtOF8YxgeXeL8xF62rdXuLpGJIhK6qzMaJ_Dcw/viewform
2. ಇಮೇಲ್ ಕಳುಹಿಸುವಾಗ ಗಮನಿಸಬೇಕಾದ ಕೆಲವು ಮಾರ್ಗಸೂಚಿಗಳನ್ನು ಇಲ್ಲಿ ನೋಡಿ.
-http://karnatakaeducation.org.in/KOER/index.php/ವಿಷಯಶಿಕ್ಷಕರವೇದಿಕೆ_ಸದಸ್ಯರ_ಇಮೇಲ್_ಮಾರ್ಗಸೂಚಿ
3. ಐ.ಸಿ.ಟಿ ಸಾಕ್ಷರತೆ ಬಗೆಗೆ ಯಾವುದೇ ರೀತಿಯ ಪ್ರಶ್ನೆಗಳಿದ್ದಲ್ಲಿ ಈ ಪುಟಕ್ಕೆ ಭೇಟಿ ನೀಡಿ -
http://karnatakaeducation.org.in/KOER/en/index.php/Portal:ICT_Literacy
4.ನೀವು ಸಾರ್ವಜನಿಕ ತಂತ್ರಾಂಶ ಬಳಸುತ್ತಿದ್ದೀರಾ ? ಸಾರ್ವಜನಿಕ ತಂತ್ರಾಂಶದ ಬಗ್ಗೆ ತಿಳಿಯಲು
-http://karnatakaeducation.org.in/KOER/en/index.php/Public_Software
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1.ವಿಷಯ ಶಿಕ್ಷಕರ ವೇದಿಕೆಗೆ ಶಿಕ್ಷಕರನ್ನು ಸೇರಿಸಲು ಈ ಅರ್ಜಿಯನ್ನು ತುಂಬಿರಿ.
-
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSevqRdFngjbDtOF8YxgeXeL8xF62rdXuLpGJIhK6qzMaJ_Dcw/viewform
2. ಇಮೇಲ್ ಕಳುಹಿಸುವಾಗ ಗಮನಿಸಬೇಕಾದ ಕೆಲವು ಮಾರ್ಗಸೂಚಿಗಳನ್ನು ಇಲ್ಲಿ ನೋಡಿ.
-http://karnatakaeducation.org.in/KOER/index.php/ವಿಷಯಶಿಕ್ಷಕರವೇದಿಕೆ_ಸದಸ್ಯರ_ಇಮೇಲ್_ಮಾರ್ಗಸೂಚಿ
3. ಐ.ಸಿ.ಟಿ ಸಾಕ್ಷರತೆ ಬಗೆಗೆ ಯಾವುದೇ ರೀತಿಯ ಪ್ರಶ್ನೆಗಳಿದ್ದಲ್ಲಿ ಈ ಪುಟಕ್ಕೆ ಭೇಟಿ ನೀಡಿ -
http://karnatakaeducation.org.in/KOER/en/index.php/Portal:ICT_Literacy
4.ನೀವು ಸಾರ್ವಜನಿಕ ತಂತ್ರಾಂಶ ಬಳಸುತ್ತಿದ್ದೀರಾ ? ಸಾರ್ವಜನಿಕ ತಂತ್ರಾಂಶದ ಬಗ್ಗೆ ತಿಳಿಯಲು
-http://karnatakaeducation.org.in/KOER/en/index.php/Public_Software
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