Summaries and structured conversations – Class Activity

Session 6 – Summary Writing

SHERNI meets SHERANIS

Watch the video SHERNI meets SHERANIS in the segments listed below:
Comment on: Key words used to describe their work; Body language; choice of situations shared
from the entire span of their career; decision about the need to pick and choose a particular
problem; ability of the speaker to showcase their leadership attributes; ability of the leader to
choose communication elements and what they choose.

Group 1: 03:00- 05:00 minutes

Group 2: 05:30-08:30 minutes
Group 3: 08:51-10:01 minutes
Group 4: 10:29-13:30 minutes
Group 5: 14:00-16:25 minutes
Group 6: 16:47-19:30 minutes
Group 7: 24:00 - 25:04 minutes
Group 8: 25:21 - 28:12 minutes
Group 9: 29:15 - 33:10 minutes
Group 10: 33:50 - 36:09 minutes
Group 11: 36:15 - 39:26 minutes
Group 12: 39:46 - 42:30 minutes
Group 13: 42:50 - 47:05 minutes
Group 14: 47:15 - 51:01 minutes
Groups 15-24: Watch the entire one-hour segment, fast forwarding in between, skipping sections
and see if you can still comment on the above attributes.

Groups 25 Watch this scene from the movie Sherni (2021), then answer the following questions. If
you are finding it difficult to understand the language, please get the help of your group members,
or refer to the English transcript.

Vidya: I agree sir, we must find a solution to the problem. We don't want to create more
problems.
Supervisor: Alright. Let's set up a monitoring committee. Send out a recommendation for
the same.
Vidya: Okay sir.
Vidya: Sir, I wanted to discuss something with you.
Attendant: Sir, GK sir's driver has come.
Supervisor: So, what do I do?
Attendant: …
Supervisor: Tell me, why has he come?
Attendant: To take oil.
Vidya: Sai Prasad has organized teak plantations in the area the villagers used to take their
cattle to graze.
Supervisor: So?
Vidya: So, the villagers have no choice but to take the cattle to the forest to graze!
Supervisor: What are you even saying, Vidya? Because of the working plan, every year
approximately 1 lakh trees are planted. That is the only fertile land here. There's nothing
here except that. Now, orders have been given for these plantations to be done. So, it must
be done!
Vidya: But where will the villagers take their cattle to graze, sir?
Supervisor: I don't care. They can take them wherever they want!

a. What is main issue that Vidya is trying to bring to her supervisor’s attention? Who
are the main stakeholders she’s trying to do justice to?
b. What do you think about how the supervisor handled the interruption by his
attendant? How would you do it, if you were in his place?
c. In the initial part of this scene, Vidya mentions that she does not want to create new
problems, and wants to stick to solving the problem at hand. Soon after, she asks
her supervisor for a personal chat on the same matter. Why do you think she does
so?