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Festivals are the rituals that remind us of our togetherness and  relationships.  These were required for celebrating crops, harvesting and were entangled with religious practices in order to have consistency and discipline. Mind it we are more God fearing tribe than God loving. Trading and business fell as offshoots with the change of time. Till our economy was closed and till we operated in sellers market there was no problem as to export of intangible and import of tangible. However when we became part of larger world and started speaking the language of market we became more susceptible to all kinds of market behavior. We started operating in buyer's market and that is how we started loosing in competition. When we compete we have to follow rules of the game and accept the verdict of the market. When everything gets decided by the market, we can only watch like deaf spectators.  The illusion of tangibility gets faded off when one starts learning crude lessons of li...

Literature reflects society. As society travels and transcends, it's footprints get registered and reflected through contemporary art and writings. What happens in social contexts, how individual behavior changes over time, how experiences are registered in memory, what expectations get framed, how actions are primed, and how outcomes are influenced - all these questions and their responses change over time, depending on context and condition. Blessings and curses stay in the surrounding environment forming vibrations whereby affecting ultimate result. Imagination and creativity get corroborated accordingly. We visited recently concluded Jaipur Literature Festival 2019 and experienced the dominance of market forces everywhere. The way JLF has become a prominent brand among literature enthusiasts and market circles, has proven that product content is secondary to advertising, promotion and packaging. Past investments in JLF are reaping fruits that are as per effective business pr...

The other day we were discussing among ourselves the motivation of students to study.  And some of the views of friends were really surprising. One of them said,  'these students are not really students, they are individuals, the class is a group of individuals, not really group of students'.  I thought let me think in my mind what ideally a student is. A student has a drive to learn new things, a student has urge to know more, a student has desire to excel, a student want to compete with others, a student raises questions, a student prepares and participates, a student engages him/herself in studies, etc etc. And then it struck to my mind, if a student is not doing either of this activity, one can not really call a student a student.   This is what gave me questions to raise and solutions to find for the problem that we, the teachers, are facing. Our experiences may not be generalised to all students at all geographies and I also wish that it is proved wro...

While I was waiting for a friend at city centre, Agartala, capital of this small state Tripura, I felt little uncomfortable. My head was getting heavy and I felt like vomiting. Something was blocking my throat. I tried locating a medicine shop and as I found one, I spotted my friend waving. It was around 7 in the evening.  I told him 'I am not feeling well' . He showed his concern and inquired the reason and diagnosed that it is gastric problem. He said we should have spicy tea at this stall (indicating the exact location of a tea vendor on a side). I avoided as I thought maybe it might spoil my stomach further. We started walking towards the other end and I started feeling better. Took a small bottle of soda and after few sips it made me little light. I was getting better. We reached back to city centre and he again suggested that better we have this tea. He had told me about this tea stall and its delicacy before. So I agreed and as we sipped tea I started admiring the t...

कल हमलोग कार्यक्रम देखा। अच्छा लगा। आज के समय की तीन प्रतिभाओं को देखा व सुना, ह्रदय भावुक हो गया। वर्तमान समय मे जब सभी चैनलों पर नकारात्मक समाचारों की होड़ लगी हो, उस माहौल में इस प्रकार के कार्यक्रमों को देखकर एक आशा की किरण दिखाई देती है। ऐसा कदापि नहीं है कि हमारे आस पास कुछ अच्छा नहीं हो रहा है, ऐसा कदापि नहीं है कि सभी कुछ ख़राब ही है, सभी लोग नकारात्मक सोच के ही हों, यदि हम अपने आसपास देखें व विचारें तो आज भी कई प्रेरणाप्रद अध्याय दिन प्रतिदिन जुड़ रहे है। यह एक विडम्बना ही है कि हमारी द्रष्टि सकारात्मक घटनाओं, व्यक्तियों, प्रयोजनों, योजनाओं इत्यादि पर उतनी जल्दी नहीं जाती, जितनी जल्दी हम नकारात्मक ख़बरों की और आकर्षित हो जाते हैं। इस परिप्रेक्ष्य में मीडिया की भूमिका अति महत्वपूर्ण हो जाती है।  मेरे मस्तिष्ट मे एक विचार आता है, कि क्या वर्तमान सामाजिक व आर्थिक व्यवस्था में (जहाँ सब कुछ बाज़ार में उपलब्ध हो, जहाँ सब कुछ बिकता हो, जहाँ प्रतिस्पर्धा का वर्चस्व हो) यह संभव है कि एक चैनल ऐसा स्थापित किया जाये जिसमे केवल सकारात्मक समाचारों का ही प्रसारण हो, जिस पर, देश-...