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conceptualcornerSandesh6 October 2009Education today has become veryinformation-based. There issome amount of knowledgecommunicated, but practically nowisdom transferred. The focus is,primarily, in the tangible domain sothat young people can get jobs – thehigher the potential pay packet, themore attractive is the course.However, education has a big roleto play in the intangible domain andunless we give this aspect an equalimportance, we will continue bringingincomplete human beings into thesociety. Therefore, it is very importantthat our composite heritage, which isalso our core competence, beintroduced in a concerted manner atall levels of our education system inthe curricular and the extracurriculardomains.It can be argued that all childrenare not getting to learn even the basicsContinued from page 5A FULL EDUCATIONlike ‘Reading, Writing and Arithmetic’in the villages because of financialconsiderations. There are not enoughteachers and schools – and theinfrastructure is also very poor due topaucity of funds. With the Right toEducation Bill being passed in bothhouses of Parliament, these problemswill hopefully be solved to some extent.However, while the the basics arenecessary, they are not sufficient.Similarly in the cities, schoolswith all the facilities, have childrenfocussing on wanting to becomeengineers, doctors, managers, lawyersetc. Here , it is imperative that theyare introduced to and made tounderstand our classical arts, literatureand other aspects of our heritagethrough curricular and extracurricularefforts. Strong heritageinputs through literature, folk andcraft traditions of the area can easilyREMEMBERING THE SEVEN GEMS..be provided at hardly any cost. Thisaspect should be given the importanceit deserves.These same ideas must beimplemented at the college anduniversity level. Today, many privateuniversities make huge profits byproviding only professional courses (thequality of which is also a suspect) toyoung people who join them. Whilefreedom must be given to the universitysystem, some guidelines must be set, oneof which is that even engineering,medical, law, management and otherprofessional courses must have strongcurricular and extra-curricular inputsof our heritage. This can be done bymaking it mandatory to set up a LiberalArts Department or School, beforegiving accreditation to any college oruniversity.Contd. on page 16until the age of 27. After Independence he worked as the drama director atAakashvani, New Delhi.He made news when in 2005 he threatened to return his Padma Bhushanafter he allegedly had to face misconduct at Rashtrapati Bhavan.‘ PRABHAKAR’- The acquired nameThere is an interesting story of how he assumed the name of 'VishnuPrabhakar' from 'Vishnu Dayal'; his original name as was listed in theprimary school of Mirapur. When he shifted to the Arya Samaj School, onbeing asked his 'Varna', he answered 'Vaishya'. So the teacher put downhis name as 'Vishnu Gupta'.When he joined the government service, the officers changed his name to'Vishnu Dharmadutt' because there were many 'Guptas' in the office andit confused them. He continued writing by the pen name of 'Vishnu' whenone day an editor asked him why he was not using his full name. Duringthe course of the conversation the editor asked if he had passed anyexamination and Vishnu answered that he had passed the 'Prabhakar' inHindi. Thus the editor changed his name to 'Vishnu Prabhakar'.Prabhakar was fond of traveling. Hetraveled for 14 years continuously tocollect material for his book - AawaraMasiha which is a biography of famousBangla author, Sharatchandra. For this hehad to visit all the places linked toSharatchandra. His love of travelsalso resulted in many travelogues.Some of his novels are: DhaltiRaat (1951), Nishikant (1955), Tat KeBandhan (1955), Swapnmayi(1956), Darpan Ka Vyakti (1968),Parchhai (1968), Koi To (1980),Ardhnarishwar (1992).Prabhakar ji is survived by twosons and two daughters.BOOKS HE WOTE
Sandesh7 October 2009state newsANDHRA PRADESHAfter a heavy schedule of programsthroughout the academic year 2008-09, the state went soft after March.Aactivities restarted with newenthusiasm on August 9, 2009 whenthe Vishakapatnam chapter organizeda performance of Hyderabad Brothersat Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya –Kommadi. The accompanists were Sh.Dwaram Satyanarayana Rao (Violin),Sh. V. Venkata Ramana Murthy(Mrid- angam) and Sh. NemaniSomayajulu (Ghatam).Hyderabad Chapter witnessed achange in its Executive Body too. Theresponsibilities of Chapter Coordinationare passed on to the new officebearers. Sh. PVRK Prasad (IAS) is thenew Chairman. Kumar Ashish is theSecretary, A. Sudarshan is theTreasurer, Smt Lathamani will becoordinator for Schools and Colleges,Smt Rukmini Kulkarni will take careof Media and Smt Monica Reddy willlook after orientations. The team is agood mix of both young and mature,just like a flowing river with strongbanks on either side.The new working body of theUniversity of Hyderabad Sub-Chapterhas also been formed after thesuccessful 2 years tenure of theoutgoing team under the leadership ofKumar Ashish.A koodiyattam workshop by Sh.Margi Madhu was held at Universityof Hyderabad for four days (inAugust). The response for theworkshop was great. There was alsoparticipation from neighboringinstitutes.Sh.Margi Madhu also gave threeperformances in Hyderabad duringhis stay. The institutions which hostedthe Koodiyattam maestro were AroraBusiness School, Vidyaranya Schooland University of Hyderabad. TheWarangal Chapter hosted twoperformances of Sh. Madhu at Instituteif Technology and Management (ITM)and National Institute of Technology(NIT). Chittoor is emerged from itsdormancy and hosted theperformances of Mysore Brothers onAugust 31. It also marked theinauguration of a new chapter in SPICMACAY Andhra Pradesh.Among the other programs inAndhra Pradesh were of CarnaticVocal by Sh.O.S Thiagrajan, CarnaticViolin by Sh T. M. Krishna and Odissiby Vidushi Kavita Dwivedi.RAJASTHANThe state is off to a grand start againwith the Virasat 2009 from August 1.There are a number of artists touringthe state, covering most cities.Smt Vijaylakshmi Shivaji,Mohiniattam performed in Kota,Jaipur and Banasthali. Schools thatparticipated were: Akalank PublicSchool, Maharani School, Rampura,Govt. Girls School, Gumanpura,Central Public School, Talwandi, DAVPublic School, Lakheri, (KOTA)Seedling Public School,Parasrampuria Gem InternationalSchool in JAIPUR and BansathaliVidyapeeth (Banasthali).Sh. Salil Bhatt on Satwik veenaperformed in Udaipur, Nathdwara,Bhilwara, Kota, Tonk, Nagor andChittorgarh.Participating institutionswere: St. Paul's Sr. Sec. School,(Udaipur), Govt. Girls College(Nathdwara), Vivekanand School,Mayur School, (Bhilwara), Tagore BalNiketan (Tonk), Karni Vikas Samiti,St.Teressa Sec. School, Jhalawar,Lakshdeep Sec. School, Bundi (Kota);Banasthali Vidyapith (Banasthali),Central Academy Sr. Sec. School,Senthi, Govt. Sr. Sec. School,Arniyapanth (Chittor) and L. K.Singhania School (Nagor)Sh .Tarun Bhattacharya onsantoor performed in one of the longestcircuits of the state covering: Jaipur,Banasthali, Kota, Fatehapur, Sikar,Sardarsaher, Bikaner, Jodhpur,Barmer, Sirohi and Udaipur. The 15institutions that participated were:Tagore Public School, BanasthaliVidyapeeth, Sir Padampat SinghaniaSchool, Medical College, Vidya MandirSchool, Dadabari Neerja Modi PublicSchool, Nimawat Public School, SwamiKeshwanand Memorial Sr. Sec. School,Vidya Mandir School, VeterinaryCollege, Rajmata Krishna KumariGirls School, Mayur's Noble Academy,St. Joseph School, LaxmipatSinghaniya School, J.K.Puram and St.Paul's SchoolSh, Narendra Kholi gave talks inKota, Chittorgarh and Jaipur whileSmt Madhusmita Moanty hadstudents enthralled by her Odissiperformances at BITS Pilani, PahariaSchool, Pilani, BRJD Public School inBhorugram, IASE at Sardarsehar,Maharani College- Jaipur, Govt. Sr.Sec. School, Chittor, Vishal Academy,Chittor, Sangam School of Excellence,Bhilwara and Mother Teressa Schholat Kota.Finally, Ustad Bundu Khan andtroupe (folk) went over the statecovering Sri Ganganagar,Hanumangarh, Chittorgarh and Kota.They performed at Sri Devi GirlsPolytechnic College, Abohar Road,DAV Public School, Nohar, ChildrenParadise Sec. School, ChanderiyaSanwaliya, Govt. Girls P.G. Collge,Gandhi Nagar, IBB College, Ranpurand Chhatrapati Shivaji School, RACMAHARASHTRAThe Mumbai Virasat '09 wasinaugurated by Pt ShivkumarSharma at SNDT Women's University,Juhu on August 31, 2009. The Virasatseries will see over 50 events in variousschools and colleges across Mumbaiand would include talks, moviescreening, workshops and concerts.Meanwhile, the Vidarbha regionhad only one artist in July. Allactivity since was stopped due to SwainFlue in Maharashtra. Pt. RonuMajumdar (Flute) gave 5 lec-dems inthe region: Tirupati Tantra Niketan,Akola; JNV-Shegaon; JNV-Amaravati; BVM, Wathoda and BhideGirls High School, Nagpur. Allprograms were successful wherenumber of students present at eachlec-dem was between 300 and 500.BIHARThe Bihar VIRASAT - 2009 wasinaugurated on 25th August 2009 inPatna with the programme of Pt.Hariprasad Chourasia and Pt.Vishwamohan Bhatt at the L N Mishra
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