The Prayers of the Talibés (2)

yalna laa baay laate, dugal la ci poosam yobu la aldiana !

yalna nga àjji màkka

yalna nga giseek seriñ tuuba yoomalxiyaam

yalna la borom bi bindal tuyaaba

yalna nga amm ay seex

yalna nga tabbi ci teenu xaalis ñu lay gene ngay bañ

May God make Baye Lahat put you in his pocket and enter with you into Heaven.

May God give you the grace to perform Hajj in Makkah

May God make you meet Serigne Touba in the afterlife

May God record this good deed for you...

The Prayers of the Talibés (1)

"May God preserve us from sickness that comes from elsewhere…”.

Souvenirs from U Pein Bridge

There are many souvenir shops near the U Pein Bridge. In the west side of U Pein Bridge, we found souvenir shops selling hats, bags and cotton clothes and there are many shops, visitors and restaurants than the east side.

A Shared Locale: Changing Pedagogy in Cultural Anthropology and Sociology, University of Mandalay (3)

Another female MA student is Ms. Myo Thandar Soe and she began the introduction of cultural anthropology in her presentation.

Getting Ready for School?

Aarti Kawlra selected a photograph from the exhibition, Ambedkar Nagar- Near Kakkan Bridge, Chennai, to write her story for the session on Reading/Writing/Re-writing/Telling/Re-telling using prompts, 20 December 2019.

Rice Play Song (3)

Let's build this together

Rice Play Song (1)

This is a play song from Kokrajar, Assam, India. Elders enact this with the children. The rough translation of the song is:

Rice cook … cook… cook…

Curry cook … cook… cook

Will you eat … will you eat … will you eat?

Keep for dinner also okay?

Lets go to plant rice now

Let’s make alli now

Let’s break alli

Let’s plant plant

Now let’s go to catch crabs from the holes

No way this side…no way that side… what about this side jogo…jogo…jogo!

Taungthman Village Through the Minds of the School Children

Taungthman village through the minds of young children

Giving Healthy Food Awareness to the School Children

Giving healthy food awareness to the school children in Taungthaman village

Lining the Slippers: Making a Difference (3)

When I see this, I feel that they are not that unaware children. We can encourage them, we can teach them and we can cultivate them. But it is funny that every time when I go there I have to remind them to place their slippers systematically.

But I hope one day this will be become tnatural. Now, most of them have got to the point where they place their slippers systematically. So, I feel that I can do it. I can improve some parts of their life.

Humanities across Borders

A Humanist Model of Collaborative Higher Education

Children & Youth