THE DWEEP JOURNAL: 2014

Sunday, November 16, 2014

Arts should be For Cultural Sake

As everywhere in the world, Lakshadweep has her own culture and arts. As culture is the hidden identity of a society, it has to be strengthened, preserved and transmitted to coming generation. Every culture possesses a unique art. As culture is an abstract identity, it can only preserve through manifestation of its arts. As we are in a post modern scenario, our new generation looks modern art and western culture. The rhythm of Kolkali becoming unheard, the folk tale of Beekiunibi still in her cave as untold, the breeze of Katuvili has been buried, the ravished beauty of Oppana shedding its past glory. Is our culture creeping towards edge of death?

Kerala, the nearest state of us is going to host its 55^th State Kalolsavam in 2015; it had begun in1956 and already completed 54 Kalolsavam. In this mega fest, they are inculcating their culture through their unique arts such as Kathakali, Kuchupidi, Barathnatyam so on. Though we have hands full of folk arts, our curriculum has been neglecting to provide arts. We have no glory of past as Kerala, we are going to host just 4^th UT level Kalolsavam. We are late, too late as in every aspect of us.

Gandhiji, our father of nation defined “education is the drawing out of the best in child….”, to him education is not merely teaching of curricular subjects but it should have co-curricular activities. Without providing co-curricular activities we cannot make our students “best”. Let us beckon our folk arts to manifest our culture, unless new generations will be born as the carbon copy of westerners. Let us perfume the odour of Oppana, let us recall the sweet gale of Katuvili, and let us lend our ears to the rhythm of Kolkali.

Wednesday, October 8, 2014

Let's Read For Future

LDC-MSE job aspirants are awaiting their result of written examinations held on 27th and 28th in the previous month. As the questions of both written test were rather based on current affairs and GK, most of the candidates are not in good expectation. Though the cut off mark to qualify the written test is 40 for ST candidates, the answer key provided by the LBS reveals that the expectation of most of candidates is in vain.
Lack of reading and poor world awareness is the main reasons for ignorance and it of course makes a man ignoble. As our geographical alienation, literature and media are too alienated to us. Even now in 2014 we don't have any news paper, and our people are reading the tattered news papers from Kerala or somewhere else. Have you thought of this crisis before? Being an Islander each one of us should think about it because Medias are the source from which we get the information about everything around us.
There are public libraries in all islands but the books are always in dust. There are some books about Lakshadweep history and its roots, but these are ‘untouched’. ‘Dweepolpathi’ is one of the authentic sources about Lakshadweep history and its geographical details, but if we ask librarian to bring, he may scold us because those books are alien to him too. If we go to library, we can see the empty chairs and the dusted tables. Our libraries are contrary to the words of Jawaharlal Nehru “libraries are the factories from which Intellects born”. 90% of World Knowledge is written, unless we read our expectations always will be in vain.