Vidyarthi Siri should illuminate humanity: Vinaya Prasad
Alva's VidyaSiri-2018
Moodabidri, November 15: “The art will instill virtuousness among an artiste besides creating universal mentality. A person will become a citizen only when he leads life thinking that everything belongs to him. Let the Vidyarthi Siri illuminate the humanity”, said film actress and artiste Vinaya Prasad.
Inaugurating the Alva’s Vidyarthi Siri-2018, a student literature and cultural conference at Vidyagiri here on Thursday, she said that students were like organic manure of the next generation. The students should move forward without adopting mischief mentality or, praising beauty, slandering the ugliness and thinking about black and white. They could understand the world if they accept everything and take it as a challenge. “We should practice the lessons we have learnt and promote the land, language, water, culture of the land. This could be possible through such Vidyarthi Siri programmes”, she said.
Presiding over the programme, Kasaragod Chinmaya School student Sannidhi T Rai Perla said that “in the Indian history, hidden facts were more than the disclosed facts. Trying to see the Indian history with the western spectacles, we are at the cross road without even getting India and seeing the west. Because of the modernization, the Indian culture is vanishing. Interestingly, the modern mechanical life has failed to find answers to basic problems of human life. The grandeur of the country has only become the past glory. In a hurry to create new things, the young generation has failed to analyse the pros and cons of the result”, she said.
Alva’s Nudisiri founder Dr M Mohan Alva said that he has intention to expand this Vidyarthi Siri to the entire state. In order to continue the cultural art forms, it was inevitable to instill love towards the land among young generation. The children have valuable knowledge. Instead of encouraging them, the situation was created to destroy their mindset. If the students got proper guidance in this competitive era, their intelligence could be utilised properly, she said.
Theatre artiste Murthy Deraje (children’s theatre), Saanidhya Residential School for Special Children (Children’s personality development) and Sadgun Aital of Sharada School (child artiste) were given Alva’s Vidyarthi Siri-2018 and senior children writer A.K Rameshwar was given Alva’s Vidyarthi Siri honorary awards on the occasion.
Vinaya Prasad released ‘Ambara Kambani, an anthology of poems written by Chinmayi Rajesh, Modagalu, a short story collection, written by Atharva Hegde on the occasion. Before this, the guests were brought in a procession to the venue with cultural troops. Rotary student Prahlad Murthy welcomed, while Tejaswini Nayak proposed vote of thanks. Dhatri Prasanna compared.
“We need the society which can groom us instead of use us. The best life would require models and not the speeches. In a hurry to consider the education system and modernization as development, we have been forgetting our sensibilities. Why we don’t have even a single question in our textbooks about this either in the form of question, criticism or objection?”
- Sannidhi T Rai Perla, Alva’s Vidyarthi Siri-2018 President
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Gujarat: Mevani demands collector’s suspension over ‘anti-Dalit’ remark; IAS officer rejects charge
Mahnisagar, Oct 30: Gujarat Congress MLA Jignesh Mevani on Wednesday demanded the suspension of Mahisagar District Collector Neha Kumari, accusing her of making anti-Dalit comments, a charge the bureaucrat rejected.
Mevani’s demand comes a week after he sought similar action against senior IPS officer Rajkumar Pandian for allegedly misbehaving with him and one of his party colleagues.
Mevani targeted Kumari citing a purported video in which she was heard saying that 90 per cent of cases registered under the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, or the Atrocities Act, are used for blackmailing.
The IAS officer termed the lawmaker’s claims “baseless” and an unsuccessful attempt to get political mileage.
Mevani visited Lunawada, the district headquarters, and demanded that an FIR be registered against the collector under the Atrocities Act and that she was suspended over her “insensitive” remarks and “unparliamentary” words.
When one Vijay Parmar went to meet the collector with his grievance at the SWAGAT programme on October 23, she used “unparliamentary” words against him and also insulted the lawyer community by saying they should be “slapped with slippers”, the Vadgam MLA told reporters.
SWAGAT is an initiative of the Gujarat government for the redressal of people’s grievances.
According to Mevani, the collector’s claim that 90 per cent of cases under the Atrocities Act are misused for blackmailing is an insult to the SC and ST communities and amounts to an offence under the Atrocities Act and Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS).
“We demand Kumari's suspension and that a case be registered against her,” he said.
The district collector called the MLA’s allegations a “political stunt”.
“The man whom the MLA called poor, innocent young friend (Vijay Parmar) has a police case against him, and his brother has more than one case of rape, kidnapping and assault against him,” Kumari said, adding that they keep visiting the collector’s office with grievances.
At the SWAGAT programme on October 23, he pressured the collector to file a case against police officers. When the collector told him that she did not have the power to file a case and that he should approach the superintendent of police (SP) or the court, he continued to pester her over his issue, she said.
He even threatened the officers and told the collector that she was a Brahmin and he would let her know what “section 4 of the Atrocities Act entailed”, she said.
“You can understand the direction in which this MLA wants to take law and order by keeping a person with a criminal history along with him even when the state government is sensitive about children and women,” she said.
The collector said that the way Vijay Parmar is “blackmailing” government employees in the name of the Atrocities Act is not at all right. “The MLA's support to such people makes it difficult for the real complainants and the real victims to get justice,” she said.
Last week, Congress leaders and Dalit community members gathered outside the office of the Director General of Police in the state capital Gandhinagar demanding the suspension of senior IPS officer Rajkumar Pandian over his alleged misbehaviour with Mevani and his party colleague.
