The Animated Study Girl, star of Chilled Cow’s videos
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With unending online classes, study streaming channels and vloggers see an uptick among students desiring peer company
First, the thermos and the coffee mug. One by one, Merve places her laptop, study material and stationery, on an organised window desk in her Glasgow home. For the next hour, she records herself studying, to the sound of gentle rain pouring outside. Intermittently, you hear her flip pages, pen scratching words, fingers dancing on keys.
“Hopefully, that helps you know I’m there studying with you,” she says. It does: around the globe, almost three lakh people from 167 countries have been studying with her. On her YouTube channel, this International Relations student at the University of Glasgow has a variety of one to six-hour long ‘Study With Me’ sessions, shot in carefully chosen, aesthetic locations: on snowy days inside the library, at twilight with birds chirping.
Colleges reopen in Tamil Nadu, confusion about online attendance
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“We have asked the students of final year students to come on campus. We are not forcing anyone. The hostels are also open. The government asked us to open hostels also. We are following the government rules.”
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Only two students were allowed to be seated in each bench at Sri Meenakshi Government College for Women in Madurai to ensure the safety of students with the resumption of physical classes on Monday. | Photo Credit:
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“We have asked the students of final year students to come on campus. We are not forcing anyone. The hostels are also open. The government asked us to open hostels also. We are following the government rules.”
Thin attendance in colleges as most students opt for online classes
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Lack of clear guidelines has led to confusion, say principals
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Lack of clear guidelines has led to confusion, say principals
When colleges reopened on January 4 after the holidays, the attendance was thin and most students opted for online classes, according to principals. They say lack of clear guidelines has left the colleges confused.
P. Wilson, principal of Madras Christian College, said that of the total of 2,000 students, only 400 had returned. “Every day, we are conducting RT-PCR tests. If a student is sick, we isolate the entire class and ask them to go for online classes. We are managing with a hybrid system of online and offline classes,” he said.
To leave masks behind and be more kind to ourselves: Hopes for 2021
Avoid any false hopes. 2021 is going to be largely a continuation of all the changes that we were forced to adapt to.
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Messages to wear masks and those flouting them! This in front of the Government Medical College, Omandurar, in Chennai. (Photo | R Satish Babu, EPS)
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Traditionally, we all make and break old and new resolutions every December. Be it setting a book-reading target, improvising on a talent, bidding goodbye to a bad habit, or learning a new skill.
But then came 2020 which tested our resilience and adaptability in ways we could have never imagined. Be that as it may, it is only fair to give the upcoming year a chance. While we do that, we must reset, reflect and maybe try and be more responsible.
Meet the musician from Chennai who thrives on Christmas motifs
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Meet M Samuel Abeysekera, a music composer who thrives on the Christmas motif and composes at least two new songs every Christmas
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Meet M Samuel Abeysekera, a music composer who thrives on the Christmas motif and composes at least two new songs every Christmas
For five years in the mid-1950s, M Samuel Abeysekera played the piano in the worship services twice a week at Madras Christian College, where he studied. He was the accompanist for the John Millns Singers and the John Millns Chorale, led by the late Jabez Janagaraj, for four decades. The Tamil Nadu Government Staff Choir and Secretariat Fellowship Choir also enjoyed his services at the pipe organ and piano in St Mary’s Church, Fort St George, for decades until he retired as a Joint Secretary to the State Government of Tamil Nadu.