Puja Goyal

© 2025 Puja Goyal — Somewhere between the Monday status update and the Friday wrap-up call, a young employee hesitates—mouse hovering over a “Send” button. The email is technically fine. Grammatically correct. Yet something feels…off. What would a leader do here? What would a mentor say? She wishes someone had told her—not just what to write, but how to listen. Now picture this instead: an…

© 2025 Puja Goyal — It begins with a question, not a lesson. “Why did Malala hide her books?” a teacher asks, a classroom of restless children who suddenly sit a little straighter. “Who is Malala?” Not because it’s part of the curriculum. Not because it’s in the textbook. But because a story has begun—and stories are magnetic. This is where the new National Education Policy (NEP) quietly…

© 2025 Puja Goyal — Ms. Surabhi stood at the edge of the classroom map, finger tracing rivers like old memories. “This,” she said softly, “was once the cleanest river in India. People called it Ganga Ma. She was worshipped. Fed. Bathed in. Spoken to.” And then she paused. The class, usually loud with shuffling feet and unsharpened pencils, stilled. Story had entered the room. Because when…

© 2025 Puja Goyal — In the middle of an otherwise ordinary Thursday, a classroom held its breath. The teacher didn’t raise her voice. She lowered it. Whispered, almost. As if she were letting them in on a secret. Thirty-two fifth graders, moments ago bouncing in their seats, now leaned in as if listening for treasure. All she said was: “And that’s when the king stepped into the room…” The…

© 2025 Puja Goyal — Somewhere in the margins of an old book — the kind with dog-eared pages and ink-smudged corners — there’s a note. Faint pencil, slanted script: “Ask her about the mango tree.”Nobody remembers who wrote it. But it changed the way the team saw her. The woman in question had never spoken much. She led with spreadsheets, firm nods, and a polite smile. Until one day, at the edge…

© 2025 Puja Goyal — The bell rings. You straighten your kurta, pick up your books and. purse, and step into the classroom. Forty pairs of eyes flicker toward you—some bored, some curious, some hidden behind an elbow or a too-large geometry box.. and one teasing and troubling another kid. You smile, just a flicker, take a deep breath, remove your secret weapon, a frog puppet or a mask and…

© 2025 Puja Goyal Some stories don’t begin with a whiteboard. They begin under a sun-soaked sky, where numbers are measured not in marks but in livestock. It was a Wednesday and it was my first geography lesson in school with Ms. Rao. We were looking forward top opening our thick Geography text book and being tutored by her for the first time. We’d heard a lot about her love for teaching…

© 2025 Puja Goyal Teaching is a profession that works behind the scenes to make a student into the person he will become tomorrow. The. long hours after school, correcting papers, preparing, worrying about Ravi or Krishna and their marks … the conversations with fellow teachers about Surabhi, and her weak math score. “Why is Saransh late to school, he skips often, everything alright?” Add to…

© 2025 Puja Goyal It all started when I first walked into the school as a drama teacher. In the school staff room, those lunches with fellow teachers and the thin line between education and friendship with colleagues. Suddenly I realised someone isn’t talking with someone, or isn’t happy with the way decisions are being taken. Someone wants you part of the team, and someone doesn’t. Some wants…

© 2025 Puja Goyal The teacher doesn’t get noticed right away and neither does the student pay attention. Most teachers are wrapped up in completing their curriculum, and there is a target that needs to be achieved. like. I need to finish this topic today, and its a race against those 40 mins. She’s standing in front of a blackboard smudged with yesterday’s chalk, arms moving with slow as she…

© 2025 Puja Goyal We had just been contracted to produce an annual day for a school, and the theme was Indian Independence. The children were informed about the changes in schedule and soon we will be starting practices. I usually start with meeting the children and describing the production and then telling them the story instead of diving right in with practiice and instructions. The boy in…

© 2025 Puja Goyal The One Skill No One Trains You For… The classroom hummed with the familiar chaos of third period. A fan ticked rhythmically overhead. Someone’s geometry box had spilled. The whiteboard marker squeaked in protest. With a slow, deliberate pause, Renuka Ma’am began, “Once upon a time, before electricity, before numbers danced on screens, there lived a village with no word for…

© 2025 Puja Goyal Jitty was about to hurl his pencil across the room when the teacher whispered, “…and that’s when the fox, trapped in a cage of fire, looked straight into the hunter’s eyes—and smiled.” The pencil paused mid-air. A breath was held. Not just his. Somewhere, a story had cracked the spell of boredom, like sun through a monsoon cloud. The room shifted. Desks became forest floor.…

© 2025 @ Puja Goyal Let’s imagine that the classroom is packed with a mixed murmur of students, some scribbling in their books, some unfocused, one or two dozing off, and others lost in thought. Suddenly, the teacher turns around and starts off with an interesting question, story, or incident. At first, the children take time to register this sudden switch, then one by one, they try to pick up…

Imagine a teacher standing before the chalkboard, ready with what they are going to teach today. She has done her homework late at night and gone over the material ten thousand times to make sure she gets through to the children. Once she walks into the classroom, she is greeted by a roomful of eager children, looking forward to the lessons they will learn. They wouldn’t miss it for the world.…

The New Stage: Digital Innovations in Theatre Production Theatre has always been a reflection of human creativity and storytelling. From the grand spectacles of Ancient Greece to the intricate stagecraft of the Renaissance, innovation has altered, modified and affected performing arts forward, and encouraged it to adapt to new ways. Today, technology is revolutionizing theatre once again.…

© 2025 Puja Goyal In a world dominated by screens and structured curriculums, theater stands as an opportunity where imagination, expression, and collaboration take center stage. While traditional education emphasizes rote learning and standardized testing, theatre fosters all-round development, making it an important learning medium for children. Theater improves cognitive abilities and…