SAMPATH KUMAR THULASI Says:
November 1st, 2006 at 10:57 am
Your views are great. But, in 2 u listed more than one revealing the complexity or plurality of things requiring change. However, no frights. We, the members of the community, shall accomplish it together. Identification of the problem is of course, the first but the prime most step towards a solution.
amruta Says:
November 1st, 2006 at 11:50 am
Thanks a lot for ur comments Mr. Sampath!! i was quite surprised to see a comment on my blog almost immediately after i posted it!
Yes, the problems are complex, and manifold; the ones i listed are just some examples…but as u say, we must be optimistic, and try to do our little bit whenever we can!! Someday, our efforts, if not we ourselves, will surely succeed!
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SAMPATH KUMAR THULASI Says:
November 1st, 2006 at 12:07 pm
Again a heartening, but this time pleasingly heartening, sketch. Perhaps, I too might have witnessed such things in my life of half a century. I too might have felt pleased in some similar occassion. Yet, I can’t recall any such so vividly.
It, the aove down pour, if further expanded and reorganised as needed, becomes an interesting children’s story to amuse the children and child lovers. After all, a need that became a strong desire of a child, is fulfilled. It pleases every child.
As a matter of fact, every joy of childhood is a need. The flower blossoms as every joy is pleasantly answered. As is the harshness and cruelity in answering the joy so is the crushing effects on the blossoming.
It is entirely the adult world that facilitates or suffocates the blossoming. Tender is the child greater is the dependence. Weaker are the parents and weker is the enclosing community weaker are the protection and support for the blossom of the child.
Let us hope that the number of adults craving to make their own child smart to leave the rest of the children in estrangement, rolls back to become insignificant. Let us hope that it dawns on everyone that it is not enough to love one’s own child but to love the childhood as such.
More later and elsewhere.
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SAMPATH KUMAR THULASI Says:
November 1st, 2006 at 11:34 am
Its really heartening and highly gripping. The narration / presentation, rather the down pour of something recalled, was graphic as it preferred to be immaculate. Yes! we need to look around, at least some times, with heart. Thanks for showing another new way of looking at incidents around and sharing.
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SAMPATH KUMAR THULASI Says:
November 1st, 2006 at 2:08 pm
It is feared in this post “half the intended recipients are not going to read it fully”…… , dear Amrutha. But, I do not endorse this. A live experience always is interesting. And, when it, the experience, flows from heart it exerts a tremendous hold / grip. At least, I assure that I am not in that “half”. I further assure that I would be a regular visitor of your blog as a sincere disciple because I came to an insoluble conclusion that you are a “miner” - a conscientious “miner” - at work at the “mine” which I have been believing to be a great treasure of human talent, spark and creativity.
Even with regards to the “Hi-Fi” knowledge of “cricket”, “world cup”, “Italy”, “FIFA”, etc., I admit with a little shyness, I know nothing. I am overwhelmed with gratitude for your efforts and the idea of sharing them with all. I would be even more “gratitudious” if I am given an opportunity to steal the efforts of your team members - your fellow “miners”, if any.
I read this twice and thrice. “……..we should also focus on increasing their capacity of thinking and understanding, …… ” was a very good yard stick to streamline the focus of efforts.
But, “…..motivation to live life normally is what is lacking in them…..” is highly objectionable and is completely wrong. This task would only lead to humiliate them. What is needed is to clearly show the link between the educational strengths, qualifications, etc. on one hand and the needs of life - both personal and of community on the other. Further, the focus of resource exhaustion should be to put them first into simple academics in the most possible attractive way - as narrated at the beginning of the post. The ways could be made far more attractive. Make learning more attractive. Do not try to make life attractive. It is already attractive for everyone - any normal person however poor she or he is. Moreover, for children it is not at all thing to be taught. It is a thing to be made as a habit. Habits do not come by teaching - at least to kids. Habits come by practice.
So, my serious suggestion to the “miners” is that let they should always feel challenged as to how best they can make their forms as attractive as possible.
(To get my meaning for “miners” please see my comment on the post “No…..There are surely rays of hope!!” with a time stamp of “November 1st, 2006 at 9:45 am” )
The content: I am least bothered. Because, I am so convinced of the immersion of the “miners” that they will never make the content “kachra” - devoid, obsolete, obscene. So assured the content is, remains the form. It is always the form that troubles. It needs to be well planned, well designed, well rehearsed, dynamic, changeable on the fly.
Show them both the social world and natural world - that which is seen by them but not yet unravelled, that which is not yet seen but only heard, that which is neither seen nor heard so far. Always ensure your show is attractive. Your audience make a quick, rather an instantaneous review of attractiveness of your show.
But, its meaningfulness and its longterm usefullness is reviewed by them late, much late. On its meaningfulness u make quick review of it. On its attractiveness leave it to them and blindly follow them. Take care that u r not exerting any pressure on them not to reveal the truth of their mental participation in your ’shows’.
Good Luck and thanks again.
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