ಬೇದ್ರೆ ಬ್ರೈನ್ಸ್: October 2008

Friday, 31 October 2008

Trickle Down Effect on Society - Opinion in The Sunday Indian of 02-11-2008

Trickle Down Effect on Society

Opinion in

The Sunday Indian

02-11-2008

ಮೂರ್ಖತನ ಬಯಲು

ಟಿಎಸ್‌ಐ ವಿಶೇಷ ಸಂಚಿಕೆ ಅತ್ಯುತ್ತಮವಾಗಿ ಮೂಡಿಬಂದಿದೆ. 1967ನೇ ವರ್ಷದಿಂದ ಇಲ್ಲಿಯವರೆಗಿನ 40 ವರ್ಷಗಳ 100 ಘಟನೆಗಳ ಚಿತ್ರಣ ವಸ್ತುನಿಷ್ಠವಾಗಿ ಮೂಡಿಬಂದಿದೆ. ಪತ್ರಿಕೋದ್ಯಮಕ್ಕೆ ಈ ರೀತಿಯ ಹೊಸ ಹೊಳಹು ಬೇಕಿತ್ತು. ಇದೇ ಸಂಚಿಕೆಯ ಸಂಪಾದಕೀಯದಲ್ಲಿ ಅರಿಂದಮ್ ಚೌಧುರಿಯವರು ತಮ್ಮ 'ದ ಗ್ರೇಟ್ ಇಂಡಿಯನ್ ಡ್ರೀಮ್' ಕೃತಿಯಲ್ಲಿ ಪ್ರಸ್ತಾಪಿಸಿದ್ದ ವಿವರಗಳ ಹಿನ್ನೆಲೆಯಲ್ಲಿ ಬಂಡವಾಳಶಾಹಿಗಳ ಮೂರ್ಖತನ ಬಯಲಿಗೆಳೆದು, ಆರ್ಥಿಕ ವ್ಯವಸ್ಥೆಯ ಕುಸಿತಕ್ಕೆ ಕಾರಣಗಳನ್ನು ವಿಶ್ಲೇಷಿಸಿದ್ದಾರೆ. ಟ್ರಿಕಲ್ ಡೌನ್ ಸಿದ್ಧಾಂತ ಕೇವಲ ಆರ್ಥಿಕ ವ್ಯವಸ್ಥೆಯ ಮೇಲೆ ಮಾತ್ರ ಉಂಟಾಗಿಲ್ಲ, ಬದಲಾಗಿ ಅಲ್ಲಿನ ಸಾಮಾಜಿಕ ವ್ಯವಸ್ಥೆಯ ದಿವಾಳಿತನಕ್ಕೂ ಕಾರಣವಾಗಿದೆ. ನಿರುದ್ಯೋಗ ತಾಂಡವವಾಡುತ್ತಿರುವ ಅಮೆರಿಕದಲ್ಲಿ ಯುವಜನರು, ಅದರಲ್ಲೂ ಯುವ ವಕೀಲರು, ಮಾಧ್ಯಮದ ಉದ್ಯೋಗಿಗಳು ವಿನಾಕಾರಣ ಜನರ ಮೇಲೆ ಕೇಸುಗಳನ್ನು ಜಡಿದು ಸಾಮಾಜಿಕ ನೆಮ್ಮದಿ ಕೆಡಿಸುತ್ತಿದ್ದಾರೆ. ಪುಟ್ಟ ಮಗುವೊಂದಕ್ಕೆ 'ಹಾಯ್ ಪುಟ್ಟಾ' ಎಂದು ಕರೆದದ್ದಕ್ಕೇ ಲೈಂಗಿಕ ಬಣ್ಣ ನೀಡಿ ರೇಪ್ ಕೇಸ್ ಹಾಕಿದ್ದಾರೆ. ಶಾಲಾ ಬಾಲಕಿಯೊಬ್ಬಳಿಗೆ 'ಹೇಗಿದ್ದೀಯಮ್ಮಾ? ಚೆನ್ನಾಗಿ ಓದುತ್ತಿದ್ದೀಯಾ?' ಎಂದು ಕೇಳಿದ್ದಕ್ಕೇ ಹದಿನೆಂಟು ವಿವಿಧ ಕೇಸುಗಳು ಮಾತನಾಡಿಸಿದಾತನ ಮೇಲೆ! ಮುದುಕ ಬಿದ್ದಾನು ಪಾಪ ಎಂದು ಸಹಾಯಕ್ಕೆ ಹೋದವರ ಮೇಲೆ ದರೋಡೆಯ ಕೇಸು! ವಾಹನ ಅಪಘಾತ ಆಯಿತೆಂದರೆ ಛೇಸಿಂಗ್ ಲಾಯರ್‌ಗಳು ಕೂಡಲೇ ಹಾಜರ್. ಇಂತಹ ಪಾಪರ್ ಚೀಸಾಮಾಜಿಕ ವ್ಯವಸ್ಥೆಯೂ ಟ್ರಿಕಲ್ ಡೌನ್ ಸಿದ್ಧಾಂತದ ಪರಿಣಾಮವೇ! ಇದನ್ನು ಕುರಿತು ವಿಶೇಷ ಅಧ್ಯಯನ ಮತ್ತು ಸಮೀಕ್ಷೆ ನಡೆಯಬೇಕಿದೆ. ಬಹುತೇಕ ಈ ರೀತಿಯ ಕೇಸುಗಳಿಗೆ ಬಲಿಯಾಗಿರುವವರು ಭಾರತೀಯ ವಿದ್ಯಾವಂತ ಯುವಜನರು.

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Tuesday, 28 October 2008

National Education Day 11th November 2008

National Education Day

11th November 2008

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REPYdMw5r4Q
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abul_Kalam_Azad
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maulana_Abul_Kalam_Azad_Institute_of_Asian_Studies,_Calcutta

GOVERNMENT OF INDIA HAS DECIDED TO OBSERVE 11th NOVEMBER, THE BIRTHDAY OF MAULANA ABUL KALAM AZAD, A GREAT FREEDOM FIGHTER, AN EMINENT EDUCATIONIST AND FIRST UNION MINISTER OF EDUCATION, AS ‘NATIONAL EDUCATION DAY’ EVERY YEAR FROM 2008 ONWARDS.

A brief biography is given here (From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia).

For details, please visit the links povided on the top.

Abul Kalam Azad

Date of birth: 11 November 1888
Place of birth: Mecca, Ottoman Empire (now in Saudi Arabia)
Date of death: 22 February 1958
Place of death: Delhi, India
Movement: Indian independence movement
Major organizations: Indian National Congress

Maulana Abul Kalam Muhiyuddin Ahmed (11 November 1888 – 22 February 1958) was a Muslim scholar and a senior political leader of the Indian independence movement. He was one of the most prominent Muslim leaders to support Hindu-Muslim unity, opposing the partition of India on communal lines. Following India’s independence, he became the first Minister of Education in the Indian government. He is commonly remembered as Maulana Azad; he had adopted Azad (Free) as his pen name.
As a young man, Azad composed poetry in Urdu as well as treatises on religion and philosophy. He rose to prominence through his work as a journalist, publishing works critical of the British Raj and espousing the causes of Indian nationalism. Azad became a leader of the Khilafat Movement during which he came into close contact with Indian leader Mahatma Gandhi. Azad became an enthusiastic supporter of Gandhi’s ideas of non-violent civil disobedience, and worked actively to organise the Non-cooperation movement in protest of the 1919 Rowlatt Acts. Azad committed himself to Gandhi’s ideals, including promoting Swadeshi (Indigenous) products and the cause of Swaraj (Self-rule) for India. He would become the youngest person to serve as the President of the Indian National Congress in 1923.
Azad was one of the main organisers of the Dharasana Satyagraha in 1931, and emerged as one of the most important national leaders of the time, prominently leading the causes of Hindu-Muslim unity as well as espousing secularism and socialism. He served as Congress President from 1940 to 1945, during which the Quit India rebellion was launched and Azad was imprisoned with the entire Congress leadership for three years. Azad became the most prominent Muslim opponent of the demand for a separate Muslim state of Pakistan and served in the interim national government. Amidst communal turmoil following the partition of India, he worked for religious harmony. As India’s Education Minister, Azad oversaw the establishment of a national education system with free primary education and modern institutions of higher education. He is also credited with the foundation of the University Grants Commission, an important institution to supervise and advance the higher education in the nation.
Azad’s family descended from a line of eminent Ulama or scholars of Islam, hailing from Herat in Afghanistan and had settled in India during the reign of the Mughal emperor Babur. His mother was of Arab descent, the daughter of Shaikh Muhammad Zahir Watri and his father, Maulana Khairuddin was of ethnic Persian origin[citation needed]. The family lived in the Bengal region until Maulana Khairuddin left India during the Indian rebellion of 1857 and settled in Mecca, the holiest city in Islam, where he met his wife.The family returned to Kolkata (then Calcutta) in 1890 where his father earned a reputation as a learned Muslim scholar. Azad’s mother died when he was 11 years old.
Azad was raised in an environment steeped in Islamic religion. He was given a traditional Islamic education, tutored at his home and in the neighbourhood mosque by his father and later religious scholars.[1] Azad mastered several languages, including Urdu, Persian, Hindko, Arabic, and Hindi. He was also trained in the subjects of mathematics, philosophy, world history and science by reputed tutors hired by his family. An avid and determined student, Azad succeeded in completing the traditional course of study at the young age of sixteen, nine years ahead of his contemporaries. At the age of thirteen, he was married to a young Muslim girl, Zuleikha Begum. Azad was, more closer, a follower of the Deobandi school and compiled many treatises reinterpreting the Qur’an, the Hadith, and the principles of Fiqh and Kalam. A young man, Azad was also exposed to the modern intellectual life of Kolkata, the then capital of British-ruled India and the centre of cultural and political life. He began to doubt the traditional ways of his father and secretly diversified his studies. Azad learned English through intensive personal study and began learning Western philosophy, history and contemporary politics by reading advanced books and modern periodicals. Azad grew disillusioned with Islamic teachings and was inspired by the modern views of Muslim educationalist Sir Syed Ahmed Khan, who had promoted rationalism. Increasingly doubtful of religious dogma, Azad entered a period of self-described "atheism" and "sinfulness" that lasted for almost a decade.
Azad developed political views considered radical for most Muslims of the time and became a full-fledged Indian nationalist. He fiercely criticised the British for racial discrimination and ignoring the needs of common people across India. He also criticised Muslim politicians for focusing on communal issues before the national interest and rejected the All India Muslim League’s communal separatism. Azad developed curiosity and interest in the pan-Islamic doctrines of Jamal al-Din al-Afghani and visited Afghanistan, Iraq, Egypt, Syria and Turkey. But his views changed considerably when he met revolutionary activists in Iraq and was influence by their fervent anti-imperialism and nationalism. Against common Muslim opinion of the time, Azad opposed the partition of Bengal in 1905 and became increasingly active in revolutionary activities, to which he was introduced by the prominent Hindu revolutionaries Sri Aurobindo and Shyam Sundar Chakravarthy. Azad initially evoked surprise from other revolutionaries, but Azad won their praise and confidence by working secretly to organise revolutionaries activities and meetings in Bengal, Bihar and Mumbai (then Bombay).
Azad’s education had been shaped for him to become a cleric, but his rebellious nature and affinity for politics turned him towards journalism. He established an Urdu weekly newspaper in 1912 called Al-Hilal and openly attacked British policies while exploring the challenges facing common people. Espousing the ideals of Indian nationalism, Azad’s publications were aimed at encouraging young Muslims into fighting for independence and Hindu-Muslim unity. His work helped improve the relationship between Hindus and Muslims in Bengal, which had been soured by the controversy surrounding the partition of Bengal and the issue of separate communal electorates.
With the onset of World War I, the British stiffened censorship and restrictions on political activity. Azad’s Al-Hilal was consequently banned in 1914 under the Press Act. Azad started a new journal, the Al-Balagh, which increased its active support for nationalist causes and communal unity. In this period Azad also became active in his support for the Khilafat agitation to protect the position of the Sultan of Ottoman Turkey, who was the caliph for Muslims worldwide. The Sultan had sided against the British in the war and the continuity of his rule came under serious threat, causing distress amongst Muslim conservatives. Azad saw an opportunity to energise Indian Muslims and achieve major political and social reform through the struggle. With his popularity increasing across India, the government outlawed Azad’s second publication under the Defence of India Regulations Act and arrested him. The governments of the Bombay Presidency, United Provinces, Punjab and Delhi prohibited his entry into the provinces and Azad was moved to a jail in Ranchi, where he was incarcerated until January 1, 1920.