| Description | Interview with an Irish nun who has worked as a teacher in Madras for many years. She talks about the political changes she has seen while living there, her experiences of Indian Independence in 1947 and the instability caused by the death of Gandhi and the conflicts between India and Pakistan. She remembers the shooting of one of the other nuns in the community at a hospital in the north of the country. She discusses the advances in the education of girls in India since Independence and the increase in the numbers of girls being taught at convent schools and a women's college in Madras. She talks about her life in Madras since the 1930s and feeling at home there. She compares her feelings about India with her feelings about Ireland when she returned for a visit, and thinks that social and technological changes have occurred in both Ireland and India. She comments on the ideas and preconceptions that children in England and Ireland have about India, and compares them with the reality of her life there. She goes on to talk about her work as a teacher in Madras, the education system there, and how her teaching methods in English medium and Tamil medium have changed over time (tracks 1-7).
Total: 11.56 mins
Dubber's reference number: PLA KF549C0130280 |