Editor Speaks
Alpana Mishra
What if there was no internet! We have just the tool to keep young minds engaged! We are there to help you in engaging their unique creativity with a supersonic boost to their persona.
My journey of the last eventful 18 years as an entrepreneur in the field of school education has been an evolutionary eye opening one to say the least. The annual struggle to convince the target readers for annual subscriptions to the tabloid is a herculean task. I would relate the common phrase of walking is good for health yet we don’t walk due to apathy or just not focused enough to make an effort despite knowing that its beneficial to living a healthy long life!
It was in 2007, basking in the glory as a star employee of HT Media Ltd. And completely engrossed in planning the new academic year activities for the popular HT PACE NIE Program that I rudely awakened to the news of shutting down of this popular NIE program in Madhya Pradesh!
The fierce sense of feeling let down especially for the young readers of Hindi Heartland where we are constantly trying to increase English Newspaper readers gave me the strength of purpose and direction to bring out a weekly newspaper for middle school children and continue the tradition of an annual NIE program for schools. The content was owned by the young readers as the tabloid carried news and views of interest to them and it met the dual purpose of being the communication vehicle for schools.
The then and now struggle is for real! In this day of constant connection to internet and online education children are slowly forgetting the art of originality. Using a pencil or pen for idly being creative and just being on their own. We partner with schools who go all out to provide the available platforms to their wards so that they have a wholesome experience during the formative school years. Some schools come out cheering triumphantly because the children and their parents understand the need to provide this reading experience during the middle school years. And some bow down to the apathetic approach. But we are a determined lot who wish to continue this tradition of newspaper reading till our last breath and serve the education fraternity in providing a common platform to the young ones.
The then and now struggle is for real! In this day of constant connection to internet and online education children are slowly forgetting the art of originality. Using a pencil or pen for idly being creative and just being on their own. We partner with schools who go all out to provide the available platforms to their wards so that they have a wholesome experience during the formative school years. Some schools come out cheering triumphantly because the children and their parents understand the need to provide this reading experience during the middle school years. And some bow down to the apathetic approach. But we are a determined lot who wish to continue this tradition of newspaper reading till our last breath and serve the education fraternity in providing a common platform to the young ones.
