He was just twenty when he joined the Karnataka education service in the year 2000. The Lower Primary School, Hemmadagi was his first posting and Ashok has been at this school for seventeen years now. Hemmadagi village has a population of less than a thousand. He describes his initial years as a teacher at this outpost as a lonely period; also, one of trial and error. As part of this programme, teachers were trained on the Nali-Kali pedagogy and Ashok embraced it, mastering and internalising it in content and spirit.

Source: Huffington Post February 04, 2020 08:03 UTC