Priyanka Roy | | Published 23.12.20, 09:42 PM
Rupa Mehra’s efforts to find her daughter Lata ‘a suitable boy’ is brought alive in the Mira Nair-directed six-part series, based on Vikram Seth’s bestseller, by Mahira Kakkar. Based in New York, Mahira was born and brought up in Calcutta, studying at Modern High School for Girls, La Martiniere for Girls and Jadavpur University, moving on to become the first person of Indian origin to attend the prestigious Juilliard School’s Drama Division in New York.
In the last 16 years, Mahira has acted on stage, television and films, with appearances in Orange is the New Black, New Amsterdam and Louie. Over an early morning Zoom call, Mahira recently chatted with us from New York on the experience of starring in A Suitable Boy, what acting means to her and her growing up years in Calcutta.
The ICSE and ISC exams will be pen and paper and there must be at least two months of on-campus classes before the boards can take place, the chief executive and secretary of the council, Gerry Arathoon, said on Friday.
“It (the board exams) will have to be a pen-and-paper exam. Online exams will not be practical given the connectivity problem and issues of availability of laptop for a section of students. Two months of rigorous teaching has to be done (in the school) before the board exam. The Class X and XII students will have to come to school for practical classes, to complete projects, for revision and clearing of doubts,” Arathoon, the chief executive and secretary of the Council for the Indian School Certificate Examinations (CISCE), told
‘Panic calls’ from students amid uncertainty over boards When and how the exams will be held and whether they will be able to attend practical classes before the boards are some of the queries
Uncertainty regarding board exams and the manner in which they will be conducted have become a cause for concern, especially for Class XII students, several heads of schools said.
In at least two institutions, counsellors and teachers have received “panic calls” from students.
When and how the exams will be held and whether they will be able to attend practical classes before the boards are some of the queries students are asking their teachers.