Blowing the conch to sell fish and press freedom..
The man, a fish vendor, is blowing the conch on the video and I rejoice. The students did an assignment around fish and fish vending. One of the students lives outside of Georgetown "in the country". I have a memory , when I was in the 'country' of a man on a bicycle blowing the conch to sell fish. This vendor though is in a car, but still using the conch. I suggest to the students that they bring some of the 'country' to their assignment. I am not a journalist and the teaching of the multimedia journalism course has meant pushing the students to go and find different stories (Video done by Julianne Gaul, Nathifa Punch and Simone Moriah Phillips , students of the University of Guyana ) Pandits blow the conch, the sanka/shanka, during puja. It is an art to blow the conch. I have puffed my mouth swollen my cheeks and pushed out air and just got a wheezing sound. The students probably thought it was mundane, everyday. Conch...