No more back benchers: A Malayalam film prompts new seating arrangement in Kerala classrooms
Vinesh Viswanath did not expect his directorial debut, Sthanarthi Sreekuttan, to initiate a revolution. The climax of the heart-warming, coming-of-age Malayalam film about an upper primary school in Thiruvananthapuram, shows how a class does away with the conventional row-based seating arrangement in favour of a semi-circle arrangement with the teacher in the centre. And this has been adopted by several schools in Kerala, after the film released on the OTT platform, Saina Play, last month.
“At least six schools have already introduced it and we came to know of it when they tagged our Instagram handle,” says Vinesh.
The idea is mooted by film’s titular character, an unassuming backbencher who is perpetually late for class. The concept underlines the need to do away with the practice where the studious children are the frontbenchers and the often disruptive rebels, the backbenchers.
Malayalam film Sthanarthi Sreekuttan sparks a change in some Kerala schools as they adopt semi-circular seating arrangement in classrooms instead of traditional one | Source: The Hindu
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