Gift an education...Make a life !

Teachers at Isha Vidhya schools are motivated to
excel in their role as well as in their passion to
contributing to the society in their own ways.

Cuddalore Tamil Teacher Tamizhmozhi has blossomed
into a wonderful Tamil writer, with the promise of a
bright future for her.

Tamizhmozhi has been writing poems and stories from
an early age. She joined Isha Vidhya Cuddalore as
Tamil teacher, and started carving out a name for herself
with innovative teaching.

She penned stories based on the 12 'Uyir' letters
(Tamil letters), and 18 - Mei poems (Mei are Tamil basic
letters) to help teach Tamil letters in classroom. Use of
these stories and poems led to marked improvement
in learning curve of the class. Observing this, the
Central Academic Team asked other Isha Vidhya
schools to also adopt it in their classroom teaching.

It was fortuitous that Tamizhmozhi met a publisher,
of Nivedhitha publications, who came forward to publish
her poems and stories. The first book, 'Sila kodukalum
sila pullikalum', sold like hot cakes in the recently held
Chennai book exhibition. Encourage by the response,
Nivedhitha publications published her Uyir stories and
Mei poems in a book.

Shares Tamilmozhi :

"During my collage days my Tamil professor Tamilarasi
was my inspiration who motivated me to write poems
in Tamil. So as per her advice and guidance i have
started writing in Thanthi, Rani and Kunkumam magazines.
Then there was a long gap and i virtually forgot to write. 

Then all on a sudden i had an urge to write and at the
same time i got an offer to working in Isha vidhya. So
for i had written only poems only at Isha vidhya i realized
that I have the talent to write even songs and stories.
LKG teachers of Isha vidhya are the force behind my
effort. They requested me to write songs based on
each uyireluthu and meieluthu. Encouraged by their
words I wrote songs on Uyireluthu and stories on
meieluthu. In fact the LKG teachers Rama and Latha
are my first fans. Four years later, my songs and stories
were published into books."

We are proud to have talented teacher like Tamilmozhi
teaching in our school. We hope that students will get
inspired by her and try their hands at writing too.

Links:

• Isha Vidhya at Global Giving