Rang Mohan Youth Festival 2019

A Very Youthful Hello to All !!

Youth can be described in many poetic ways.

ઘટમાં ઘોડા થનગને આતમ વીંઝે પાંખ,
અણદીઠી ભોમ પર, યૌવન માંડે આંખ. - ઝવેરચંદ મેઘાણી

झपटना पलटना, पलटकर झपटना, लहू गर्म रखने का है एक बहाना
परिंदो की दुनिया का दरवेश हूं मैं, एक शाहीन बनाता नहीं आशियाना – इकबाल

From 25th to 28th September, Rang Mohan Youth festival at MK Bhavnagar University was organised.

2019 is the year in which 150th Birth Anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi is being celebrated. Maharaja Krishnakumarsinhji Bhavnagar University organised and hosted 29th Intercollegiate Youth Festival. "Rang Mohan", the title of youth festival is aptly connected with Gandhiji's life journey, from Mohan to Mahatma. There were about 1130 participants in the festival. Various events like, Folk songs, Western songs, paper collage, clay modelling,  spot painting, spot photography, rangoli, mehendi, mono acting, one act play, skit, mimicry, mime, quiz, essay writing, elocution competition were included in the festival.

There were 5 stages allotted to these events,
1. આચાર્ય તખ્તસિંહજી પરમાર મુખ્ય મંચ અને કલાગુરુ ધરમશીભાઈ શાહ નૃત્ય મંચ (એમ્ફીથિયેટર)
2. કવિ શ્રી ત્રાપજકર નાટ્યમંચ (અટલ ઑડિટોરિયમ)
3. સુરમણિ રસિકલાલ અંધારિયા સુર મંચ (નવો કોર્ટ હોલ)
4. કલાગુરુ શ્રી ખોડીદાસ પરમાર કલા મંચ (બાહ્ય અભ્યાસક્રમ ભવન)
5. રાજકવિ શ્રી પિંગળશીભાઈ નરેલા સાહિત્ય મંચ (અંગ્રેજી ભવન)

In every event of this festival, there were many new notable things, let's have the glimpse of some of these events.

(01) Mimicry
Mimicry was the best performance because many new sounds like car, motorbike, scooter, aircraft and other things are introduced and most interestingly, different characters's voices from Hollywood and Bollywood were included. Especially Bad Joker, Oggy, Johnny Lever, Sunny Deol were the actors whose voices used for mimicry.

(02) Western Group Song
Western Group was the event I liked the most, because the participants have selected very appropriate songs and they were singing them very melodiously. Here are those original songs from YouTube.

(03) One Act Play

-:: Click Below link to watch the play acted by other university students.
"મુકામ પોસ્ટ હૃદય"
જિંદગી નો આ ટૂંકસાર છે... ના કિનારો ના મઝધાર છે... Starting with such poetic lines, this play expresses well the terrible condition of psychologically disabled girl Mansi, who was in love with her pen friend, Bhadresh Bhavsar, whom she never met face to face and still got affection with him. Dr. Rushi, Mumbai based psychiatrist counsels his best friends' daughter Mansi who suffers from this double personality disorder.

-:: The other play was about Artificial Intelligence and how it can be connected with the ability of human's decision making skill. The positive side of Artificial Intelligence is shown in this play. Here is one glimpse of the play.

શિવાની ના પપ્પા નું મૃત્યુ થયું છે. તેના ગામ જવા માટે અઢી વાગ્યા ની ટ્રેન છે. તે ખુબ જ આઘાત માં સરી પડે છે. શિવાની નિર્ણય લે છે કે બીજા દિવસ ની એન્જીનીયરીંગ ની પરીક્ષા નથી આપવી. તેની એક બહેનપણી મેઘા તેને સમજાવે છે કે, મૃત્યુ ના સમાચાર પહેલા ના સમય માં ખુબ મોડા આવતા હતા ત્યારે માણસ ને એટલો જ આઘાત લાગતો હતો, અને હવે ફોન અને સોશ્યલ મીડિયાના સમયમાં જ્યારે તાત્કાલિક મૃત્યુ ના સમાચાર આવે છે અને આપણે.. તરત જ આપણે નિર્ણય લઈએ કે આવતી કાલ ની પરીક્ષા નથી આપવી એમ શા માટે? તે બહેનપણી શિવાની પિતાએ લીધેલી લોન.. અને કેટલીક આર્થિક સ્થિતિઓ નું વર્ણન કરે છે અને એમ સમજાવે છે કે, પિતાએ જોયેલા સપનાઓ પૂરા કરવા માટે અને દીકરી ને આગળ વધતા જોઈને જો પિતા જીવતા હોત તો કેટલા ખુશ થાત? આ બધું તેની અન્ય બહેનપણીઓ સમજી નથી શકતી. ઘર માં દુઃખનો અને રોકકળ નો માહોલ હોય કે પછી કોઈ પણ કપરી પરિસ્થિતિ હોય દરેક વ્યક્તિએ આ રીતે જ સ્થિતપ્રજ્ઞ રહીને સાચા નિર્ણયો લેવાની ટેવ રાખવી જોઈએ.

નાટક માં બધા જ સ્ત્રી પાત્રો છે, તેથી સ્ત્રી સશક્તિકરણ પણ એક મુદ્દો બને તેમ છે. જયારે પણ આપણે કોઈ નિર્ણય લેતા હોઈએ છીએ ત્યારે તે પ્રેક્ટિકલ છે કે ઈમોશનલ તે પહેલા જોવું જોઈએ. ઈમોશનલ નિર્ણયો, ક્યારેક આપણને જોખમમાં મૂકી શકે છે. અને બુદ્ધિ પૂર્વક નો પ્રેક્ટિકલ નિર્ણય આપણને ઘણી વાર આવનારા મોટા સંકટમાંથી ઉગારી લેતો હોય છે. આ નાટક આપણને શિક્ષણ નો સાચો અર્થ સમજાવી જાય છે. ઘણા નુકસાન એવા હોય છે જેની ભરપાઈ ક્યારેય ન થઈ શકે. એકવીસમી સદીમાં ભાવનાઓ અપડેટ કરવાનો યુવાનો પાસે અવસર છે. આજની જનરેશન માં મીડિયોકર ટેન્ડેન્સી વધી રહી છે, લોજીકલી વિચારવાની ક્ષમતા અને ક્રિએટિવિટી આપણે ગુમાવી રહ્યા છીએ, છેલ્લે શિવાની ના મમ્મી નો ફોન આવે છે અને તેની બહેનપણી મેઘા, આન્ટી સાથે વાત કરે છે કે, "હા આન્ટી, આપે કહ્યા પ્રમાણે જ મેં શિવાનીને સમજાવી છે, હવે તે કાલે પરીક્ષા આપીને પછી જ ઘરે આવશે." અને ફરીથી બધી જ બહેનપણીઓ આંખ માં આંસુ સાથે બીજા દિવસ ની પરીક્ષાની તૈયારી માં લાગે છે. છેલ્લે જયારે આ વળાંક આવે છે ત્યારે કેટલાક મેલોડ્રામેટિક સંવાદો અને અભિનય થી પ્રેક્ષકો delight અનુભવે છે. આ નાટક ને લોજીક અને લાગણીઓનો અનોખો દ્વંદ્વ કહી શકાય. જેમાં દર વખતે જોવા મળતા લાગણીના વિજય કરતા આ નાટક માં લોજીક નો વિજય થતો દર્શાવ્યો છે. આ નાટક ઘણે અંશે નવીનતા ભર્યું અને વર્તમાન સમયને સાંકળતું નાટક છે.

-:: This play highlighted the center and periphery approach. Living in mega cities, we feel that nothing is happening wrong in society, everyone is given equal rights; men and women are considered equal, but here in this play, we come to know that how women are tortured and beaten by males in small villages. Below is the original film, "મહોતું"

-:: Mythological plot taken from the epic, Mahabharata. Use of Long dialogues and highly figurative language makes the play a bit difficult to understand yet interesting. Urubhangam is the story of this play.

(04) Skit

-:: In the first skit, all the goddesses are portrayed very modern, drinking tea and coffee, talking with each other as of they are gossiping about some topic. They are talking about corruption in India. With humorous ways. It generates laughter with wit and satire. It can be said that this was anti-sentimental comedy.


-:: The second skit was about trading of human relations, someone doesn't like his father, of someone wants to buy a brand new husband! Very good satire on human's negligence towards relations like, brother, father, mother, daughter, sister etc. Human's are so busy with their own selves that they don't even know towards what decay they are going! This skit was very satirical. This image explains how a receptionist explains the values of relations for marketing purpose. At the end one old man comes and asks for a son, and the skit takes an emotional turn.

-:: Fourth Skit was of Department of English, participants presented very peripheral topic, LGBTQQIA; Lesbians, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Questioning, Intersex and Allies. These people are very much harassed, tortured, and hated just because they are not normal by their bodies. After all they all are the integral part of mankind, and they should be given equal rights and life.


-:: Fifth skit was also about negligence of youth towards their elders and breaking of family bonds. married couples are taking divorce because of social media, and other smartphone related reasons. Youth should spend mire time with their family and relatives instead of using too much social media. By doing this they will get to know each other and generation gap will be filled up. Interaction between elders and youth is much necessary in modern times, because youth doesn't reveal all the truth, and without telling any reason, young people are committing suicide. Doing healthy conversation is the only key to resolve these problems. The skit thrown light on this topic very aptly.

-:: Third skit was also very satirical towards various problems in India, like high pricing, patrol and diesel are being dear day by day. Ravan comes to the earth and feels amazed by watching the fast development in India, but he also strikes some satire on the arrival of unnecessary things such as Bullet train and Statue of Unity. Ravan, just according to his nature, scolds people and provokes them that if we want to uplift our country, we have to come out from the barriers of old and orthodox mentality.

(05) Clay Modelling

(06) Rangoli

 

 

(07) Paper Collage

(08) Spot Painting

(09) Spot Photography
I was the participant in this event. Here are few clicks!!

Overall this youth festival was full of joy and colors of different talents. It became a good platform for young generation to perform and show the talent.

Thank You!

Thinking Activity 6 - Paradise Lost Book IX

Hello Readers!

What do you call heaven or paradise ? Do you imagine utopia while thinking of paradise ? Well, in the Holy Bible, it is said that the earth was paradise.In The Book of Genesis we find reference of creation of the world and creation of Adam. Here is one painting by Michelangelo, which is now situated in the ceiling of Sistine Chapel, Vatican City.

Adam (left) was created by God (right with cupids)

John Milton was a renaissance poet who brought the imagination of paradise in our reading. Based on the Holy Bible, Paradise Lost is the book originally written in ten books but later on it was republished in twelve volumes. Book IX is the part of the syllabus in MA English course, M.K. Bhavnagar University. This thinking activity is assigned by Dr. Dilip Barad, and a part of critical thinking about human perspective and divine perspective. Click here to visit his blog.

Que 1. What is your understanding of human perspective and divine perspective? Give illustrations to support your understanding.
Ans:

Human Perspective & Divine Perspective

Thoughts and arguments mostly have perspectives. The number 6 and 9 can be seen from both the  sides and both are correct. In the context of Paradise Lost, Milton has portrayed some characters in such a way that they can be seen as a human perspective. Such as Eve's character is shown very different from the Bible, she is argumentative and bold by nature, she doesn't easily gets tempted by Satan, who is in disguise of the Serpent. She has her willingness to eat the fruit of Knowledge, which is also human perspective. In the Bible, we can see the narration has divine perspective, in which God is in the center but in Milton's Paradise Lost we find long narration which deals with human perspective, because it includes some of the common human qualities like envy, lust, temptation, reason, arguments, etc. Eve commits first disobedience, by eating the fruit of knowledge, so Adam thinks that even if I offer my another rib to The Maker Wise/God, I won't be able to get Eve like this whom I dearly love. We can read this Adam's soliloquy in our current matrimonial system also. Thus, Milton has used human perspective, and in The Book of Genesis, we find divine perspective.

Que 2. How do your read the character of Eve as transgresser and yet defendable?
Ans:

Eve as Transgresser, yet Defendable

Serpent tempts Eve to eat the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge. Even after knowing the words of The Maker Wise (God), she eats the fruit and gets the knowledge of her body. She also goes to Adam and tells the incident about eating the fruit, then she tells that serpent told me to do so. Here, she blames serpent but doesn't accepts that I willingly ate the fruit even though I was knowing that it will lead me to a big Fall. Here, Eve is making an impression of a transgresser. Yet, we also read Eve's character as defendable one, because she gives strong arguments in the dialogue with Adam and she says if we are inferior then who is Free? If we rad the character of Eve as feminist view point, we can state that Eve is still defendable, because God cursed Eve very harshly to bear the painful childbirth and her husband will rule over her. Yet, God is seems little merciful to Adam and curses that your shall work hard throughout your life and eat the breads and plants of the fields and you will be mixed up with the dust at your death. Here we see two things, God is partial in doing justice and the other, Satan should be punished the most, but it's not happening so. Thus we can read the character of Eve as Transgresser yet defendable.

Thank You!

Thinking Activity 5 - Wordsworth and Coleridge

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Have you ever thought that writing a poem can get you far away from stress? Well, many good habits are easily cultivated from reading and writing. It may seem strange but, in this era of web series and movies, people don't give much of their time to write something. Writing a poem each day can improve our mental health! Producing a literary work is not as simple as we think. The author has to pass through the pain; just same as a woman who is about to give birth to child.

Many critics gave their insight on different literary forms and wrote critical essays on them. A few critics are very sharp about their arguments, but some of them take some liberty and put their thoughts with lose string. Such lose arguments are broken by new critics and new ideology takes place of the old one. Poetry is one of the earliest literary forms. In this Blog, we will see the views of both the critics on Poem.

This thinking activity is part of self learning from the essays of Wordsworth and Coleridge. Here are two blogs posted by Dr. Dilip Barad, in which he has given video lectures, power-point slides on the topic and students are assigned this thinking activity to answer the following questions

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) Biographia Literaria Ch. 14. Click Here to view blog. Coleridge is mainly considered as a poet and philosopher, but he also tried to give critical comments and arguments on the questions like what is a poet and what is poetry.

William Wordsworth (1770-1850) was associated with Coleridge and published the Preface to Lyrical Ballads. Click Here to view blog. This essay was published in 1798.

William Wordsworth

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Que 1. Write brief note on the views of Wordsworth and Coleridge on Poem.

Ans: Poetry, as defined in Wordsworth's preface, is spontaneous overflow of powerful imagination recollected in tranquility. It means that a poem is the reflection of thoughts and imaginations of poet's mind. If we take the example of Wordsworth's poem Daffodils, we come to know that how the flow of imagination is spontaneous. Wordsworth put his views on poetry that 'poetry is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge, the impassioned expression that is in the countenance of all science'. Which means that no subject remains unnoticed from the eye of a poet. He can cover all fields of knowledge in his poems and touch upon all the branches of sciences. In Wordsworth's poetry, we find the portrayal humble and rustic countryside life.

Now let us see how S T Coleridge defines poem and poetry. He simply puts that poem's immediate purpose is delight and it's ultimate end is truth. Any poem which fulfills both the requirements is a true poem. Coleridge further puts two cardinal points of poetry, (a) the power of exciting the sympathy of the reader by a faithful adherence to the truth of nature, and (b) the power of giving the interest of novelty by modifying with the colors of imagination.

Que 2. Analyze 2 poems with reference to Wordsworth and Coleridge's views.

Ans: To A Butterfly by Wordsworth and Desire by Coleridge

To A Butterfly

Stay near me--do not take thy flight!

A little longer stay in sight!
Much converse do I find in thee,
Historian of my infancy!
Float near me; do not yet depart!
Dead times revive in thee:
Thou bring'st, gay creature as thou art!
A solemn image to my heart,
my father's family! 

Oh! pleasant, pleasant were the days,

The time, when, in our childish plays,

My sister Emmeline and I
Together chased the butterfly!

A very hunter did I rush

Upon the prey:--with leaps and springs

I followed on from brake to bush;

But she, God love her, feared to brush

The dust from off its wings.

In this poem Wordsworth used butterfly as a natural image, and also portrayed bushes and brakes as rustic element of countryside life. At first, the poem gives us delight. Recollection of old days is also best fits in the characteristic of poetry, because some days are recollected in tranquility in this poem. "pleasant, pleasant were the days..."

Desire

Where true Love burns Desire is Love’s pure flame;
It is the reflex of our earthly frame,

That takes its meaning from the nobler part,

And but translates the language of the heart.

Perfectly philosophical in nature, the poem unveiled human's inner emotions. this poem also has spontaneous overflow of imagination and, just as Coleridge says, the poem also has truth as the ultimate end and pleasure as immediate purpose. If Love is a burning element, then Desire is it's flame. Here we get the natural image of fire, earth and human heart, which represents truth of nature.

Thank You.

Shitala Saatam - Religion vs Science

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Festivals play vital role in human's life. In our routine and monotonous life, festivals fill the empty gap of happiness, jubilation, and encouragement. Indian festivals are firmly connected with religion, mythology and legend stories. There are many festivals which are not directly connected with the original myth or scriptures, but still they have their space. Naag Pacham, Chhath, and Shitala Satam are such festivals. If a rational and critical thinker visits India and observes some rituals of worshiping of disease like smallpox, what impression he will take about India? Natural elements like vegetation, water, fire, air, all the seasons like, autumn, spring are majorly seen through the eye of religious thoughts. Fear is the deeply rooted feeling in the conscience of human being. Whichever thing he can't control, he submits and surrenders himself and bows in front of it. Whether it be a natural calamity or deadly disease like smallpox which we call it Shitala (શીતળા).

Here's one link of blog about this topic, posted by Dr. Dilip Barad.
Click Here to visit blog.

What's in the air ?

Shitala (smallpox) was once a deadly and incurable disease, which is now fully curbed. One pioneered the idea of vaccination in the medical field, none other than Edward Jenner was the first to find the cure of smallpox from cowpox. Iron cuts iron. The disease of cowpox became the vaccine of smallpox. Jenner experimented this for the first time in 1796. At that time, Indians were worshiping this deadly disease as Mataji (Goddess), because it was incurable. There is also one rational idea that eating cold food like curd, buttermilk, hotchpotch, cold roti, thepla, helps with deficiency of vitamin B12. But of course for Indians it was not followed with intention to cure the deficiency but to be saved from the wrath of Shitala Maa.

Edward Jenner (1749-1823) and cowpox infected udder of cow, human arm (Source: Wikipedia)

Edward Jenner performing his first vaccination to James Phipps (14th May 1796)

Here's one link of article, which will break many misconceptions and will demolish the 'excessive pride', which Indians take about curbing the disease on first hand. Click here to read the article. When we see falsified manifestation of any visible object and yet people, by becoming sheeple, blindly follow the lead, somewhere in the corner truth is being revealed in the form of articles and write-ups. Just a little ray of light, enlightens the dark corner and we find the truth that bring awareness.

Awareness is All

While India was busy in worshiping this Shitala Mataji, people in Britain were afraid of taking the cowpox vaccine, which was the cure to smallpox. This image is mocking at the fear of people, who are imagining that they will grow cow heads on their bodies. At least this fear of people was good rather than worshiping the disease as Goddess. Even after having the fear, they are sitting there to take the vaccine.

If people will not be aware of the current diseases, then how will rumors be stopped ? In the 21st century people should think every aspect with multidimensional views. In this image we can see how Edward Jenner is doing good karma by advising a farmer to vaccinate his family. Unless we start thinking, re-looking on issues, our minds will always be captured by such fake mentalities and will never be free from 'Conditioning'. Let's be hopeful that India will be fully free from superstitions and let's spread this thought to people. Let's be aware together.

Citations: Images from Wikipedia

August: A Month of Patriotism

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August is a month of patriotism. As we all know that on 15th August, 1947, India became free form British Raj. Indians celebrate this day as Independence Day. After 72 years of freedom, India has changed a lot. The country has found new horizons in most of the fields and developed in its advanced terms. Many industries were born, grew and died, but the evergreen film industry hasn't found any drawback or setback in it's history. Indian film industry has found new ways and mediums in production, distribution and releasing of the films. Literature has no boundaries. We can maintain here, that literature and films are two pillars of India's social and cultural reflection. Here are two short films which makes us think our ideas about the word 'Freedom' again.

1. Indian Short Films

(1) In defense of Freedom : A film by Nandita Das
Actor : Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Character : Saadat Hasan Manto

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What to write and what not to write ? We should write on everything which is in front of us. In this short film, Manto talks about writing a fair and transparent visual of any current scenario or situation. Manto says that writing about prostitution or the people connected with it, isn't wrong. they are also the part of our society. In a class many intelligent people are sitting, few of them don't like this thought, so they walk out from the room. Many accusations have made against such writers who depict or portray things as it is. This short film makes us think about the freedom of thought and freedom of expression.

हकीकत से इनकार करना क्या हमें बेहतर इंसान बनाएगा ?

"जो हमारे सामने मौजूद है वह हर चीज़ के बारे में लिखा जाना चाहिए।"


(2) This Bloody Line
Writer and Director: Ram Madhvani

This short film makes us feel that this line between two countries, is nothing else but the partition of one heart into two. Earlier before partition, when there was no such country like Pakistan, people were living very happy life, there was no such thing like religious blindness. Peace and brotherhood was here. But in 1947, Sir Cyril John Radcliffe drew a line that divided a country forever. Many people became homeless overnight and around one million people were massacred. W. H. Auden writes a poem about this Radcliffe line namely, "Partition".

In this short film, Radcliffe asks the Chancellor that, "I've never been to India, why me ?"
Chancellor: Do it in the service of your country. At the End of the video, Cyril remembers Mahatma Gandhi and recalls that once he warned that this line was going to create a lot of violence. He repents at the decision of drawing THE BLOODY LINE.

"It was one country, one heart cut into two.

The line divides us."

TILL TODAY THIS LINE MAKES US BLEED

2. देश एक राग है। 

In this video, the idea of using the word nation and country is well described. In which context the word 'nation' is used rather than 'country' is elaborated by poem of Bhagwat Rawat. Nation is a formal word and we don't find any patriotic feeling while uttering it. While 'country' makes good impact on one's heart and makes a person feel patriotic.

Nation which we call in Hindi - राष्ट्र, and Country we call it in Hindi - देश.

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देश एक राग है,
सुवासित सुभाषित सा फैलता हुआ धीरे धीरे,
स्नेहिल तरंगों की तरह,
बाहर से भीतर तक, भीतर से बाहर तक।
स्वयं अपनी सीमाएं लांघता,
सुगन्धित मंद मंद पवन की तरह,
सारी दुनिया को शीतल करता धीरे धीरे,
सारी दुनिया का हिस्सा हो जाता...

मैं भारत देश का नागरिक हूँ।  मैं भारत राष्ट्र का...

Theories and arguments are many, but I love to use the word Desh instead of Rashtra.

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Indian Writing In English: The Purpose by T. P. Kailasam

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The study of Indian writing in English has become an integral part of the English literature. T. P. Kailasam was a prominent Kannada playwright and writer. This blog is related to the task assigned by Prof. Vaidehi Hariyani. Click here to view blog. In her blog, there are pre-task in which students have to read the original play The Purpose by T. P. Kailasam. In post-task students answer the questions accordingly.

Guru Dakshina (Source: Wikipedia)

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1.) Compare and Contrast Arjun and Eklavya's Character.

Ans. In this play the character of Arjuna in different. He is some kind of arrogant and blunt with his Gurujee, Dronacharya. Eklavya is noble and humble student who wishes to save the creatures of jungle.

2.) What is Subaltern? Who do you think is the Subaltern in this play? Explain with examples.

Ans. Subaltern means the person whose voice is unheard and oppressed, and neglected. In this play, Eklavya is subaltern because his voice is suppressed and Dronacharya refused to teach him archery because he is Nishadha.

3.) Write your views about Education system in India with reference to Past and Present time.

Ans. Education system was very different in ancient India. There was Gurukuls and Ashrams, in which parents leave their children for their education and the teachers in Gurukul take care of the child until he becomes mature and learned. At the age of around 15 or 16, that child learns many different things from different experiences and through the guidance of the Sages and Acharyas. In this span of time a child used to learn many lessons not only from studies but from lives also. Guruji or Acharya used to send their Shishyas in jungle to cur some tree branches, they used to fill water from deep wells, pulling the rope from well and filling a potful of water was not easy task then. Students were learning archery, dual fights, animal hunting, etc. In this Gurukul education system, multi-dimensional development of students was happening.

Whereas now in Today's India, education has become a big business. Every owner of school thinks about a student as a tool to earn money. Nowadays all institutes are giving their advertisements in very big posters and hoardings just in order to attract students and make them take admission in the institute. School and university owner hire very low qualified teachers and even if they get a good teacher luck by chance, they don't give them sufficient salary. We all know that money plays a vital role in every persons life. By getting this much low salary, a teacher gets frustrated and always remain in stress, so even though having a good qualification he can't teach their students with full attention and devotion. Earlier it was seen that if student comes from very poor background, teacher used to teach him free without any fees. Whereas there are numberless private schools, colleges and universities which takes a massive amount of fees in the form of donation or charity funding. In a nut shell we can say that The place of Saraswati (Goddess of Learning) has taken by Lakshmi (Goddess of Money).

4.) Is Dronacharya an ideal teacher? If yes, then how? and If No, then Why? Explain with examples.

Ans. Dronacharya is partial in educating Eklavya because he only teaches Kshatriya students whereas Eklavya is Nishadha. After the refusal of Dronacharya Eklavya makes an image of Gurujee and practices archery. Being a teacher one cannot be partial with students. So Dronacharya is not an ideal teacher.

5.) Write something about your experience like Eklavya or Arjuna with any teacher during your study phase till now.

Ans. There were no such experience like this during my studies.

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