Tuesday, 6 September 2011
Jack and Jill, humpty dumpty have a great fall
In pre-schools, that is... in a bid to familiarise students with their own culture and traditions, pre-schools are increasingly discarding the English nursery rhymes, and preferring ones with a distinct Indian flavour Did you know that the popular nursery rhyme 'Ring-a-ring-a-roses' alludes to the Great Plague of 1665, which claimed an estimated 1 lakh lives in London? Or that 'Jack and Jill', a staple in any book of rhymes, carries veiled references to King Louis XVI of France and his wife Marie Antoinette, and the brutal
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