Virtual Teacher's Day Celebration

As part of the Virtual Teachers Day Celebration organized by the Department of English, M.K. Bhavnagar University, I independently conceptualized, created, and published educational video lessons for two consecutive years — 2024 and 2025. Each year, I selected a significant literary poem, designed a complete learning experience around it, and made it accessible to learners beyond the classroom through YouTube and TED-Ed.

Each project was a complete end-to-end solo initiative — covering video creation, online publishing, interactive quiz design, automated certificate distribution, certificate design, and digital marketing through Instagram and WhatsApp. Over two years, these videos together have reached 861 views, reflecting a genuine and growing impact on learners within and beyond the university.

2024 — "Death Be Not Proud" by John Donne

Published: 4 September 2024

For the 2024 celebration, I created an educational video on "Death Be Not Proud" — one of the most celebrated metaphysical sonnets in English literature by John Donne. The lesson explored the poem's profound themes of mortality, faith, and the bold defiance of death, making this intellectually rich poem accessible and meaningful for students of English literature.

The poem, part of Donne's Holy Sonnets, personifies death and powerfully argues that death itself shall ultimately die — a concept that continues to resonate across centuries of literary study.

2025 — "Still I Rise" by Maya Angelou

Published: 3 September 2025

Building on the experience of 2024, I created a second educational video for the 2025 celebration — this time on "Still I Rise" by Maya Angelou, one of the most powerful and widely celebrated poems in modern American literature. The lesson highlighted the poem's bold message of resilience, dignity, and empowerment — rising above oppression, self-doubt, and adversity with unwavering strength.

The video continued to reach and inspire learners well beyond the classroom, deepening my commitment to making literature engaging, accessible, and meaningful.