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GENDER NEUTRALITY

By Mansi Walia Recently I met my aunt who’s a primary school teacher in Jammu, and was asked to help her in a new initiative of ‘Teaching Aid’ in her school. The purpose of Teaching Aid initiative is to use creative methods in teaching which can help the students to learn and understand significant issues in a better way. So, she asked me to prepare something which can be easily understood by the students and at the same time has a moral impact on them. The suggested topic was ‘People who help us’ and a pictorial representation would’ve been enough. In our day to day life we’re helped by so many people and we do not even bother to acknowledge the same, So, this topic appeared great to me but then there’s another important thing ’Respecting those who help us’. Even if we recognise the people who help us, do we respect them? Many people around me do respect and acknowledge them, many care not to and others leave no moment to make them feel different and excluded.  Anyway, I reframed t