Your admission is cancelled

"Your admission is cancelled, if you want to listen to it in English" were the words of registrar of Gujarat Vidyapith, Ahmedabad to a student of third year BA.

It has been a thoroughly anti student policy of Gujarat Vidyapith of rusticating the students who have committed some mistake. Especially  in the other two campuses-Sadra and Randheja- where the students have been utterly defeated against the punitive administration of the colleges because of the remoteness from the main University campus in Ahmedabad.

There have been three suicides and three instances of rustication in Sadra alone. Last year many students were shown way out due to lack of sufficient attendance in both Sadra and Randheja.

The worse for the students of these campuses is that nobody takes pain to hold any responsibility for them when they come to register their grievances even in the University. Their hopes of higher authority addressing to the autocratic decisions of their own institutes meet despair.

The only one way the students of these two campuses can fight against these injustices is the formation of a powerful student Union. The students of Ahmedabad campus being senior of course have to take initiative for this cause. Otherwise the termites in the administration of Gujarat Vidyapith would eat away the studentship of the entire University.

Leak on waters, leak on

Libraries are the centers of information dissemination. Libraries cultivate citizens by creating a platform from which the readers can receive information on diverse issues and create innovative ideas to solve social and environment problems. The whole narrative of ideological hegemony of libraries can be broken when you see such images as the above.

The photos belong to the library of Gujarat Vidyapith, Ahmedabad. The urinal valve of men's toilet has been leaking on and on but the administration of library is at ease. Why not because they have enough water to leak on.

Translation

वर्ण व्यवस्था ने धर्म की व्याख्या की और शिक्षण के क्षेत्र को ब्राह्मणों के अधीन कर दिया है इस वजह से (क्षत्रिय, वैश्य,शूद्र) वर्ण के लोगों में शैक्षणिक प्रतिभा का कुछ खास का विकास नहीं हुआ. इस कारण से पूरे संस्कृत साहित्य मे ब्राह्मणो के अलावा दूसरे वर्गो ने कुछ खास योगदान नही दे पाया.                                                 

प्राचीन काल में केवल ब्राह्मण वर्ण के लोगों का चिंतक होने की एक वजह है, चिंतन के लिए भाषा निश्चित थी और अभिव्यक्ति की पद्धति लोक भाषा न होकर देवभाषा (संस्कृत) अर्थात कुछ विशेष वर्ग की ही भाषा संस्कृत थी जो चिंतन का वाहक बनी. ब्राह्मणों के अलावा अन्य वर्णों का इस भाषा पर कुछ खास अधिकार नही था. इस कारण से धार्मिक, राजकीय और सामाजिक भाषा से ज्यादातर वंचित वर्ग अपने चिंतन की अभिव्यक्ति नहीं कर सका और ना ही प्रचार कर सका. क्योंकि प्रचार प्रसार का एकमात्र क्षेत्र व्यासपीठ था जो पूर्ण रूप से ब्राह्मणों के हाथो में था.

प्रथम (ब्राह्मण) वर्ण प्रजाहित चिंतन करके पुस्तक लिखता और लिखे हुए पुस्तकों को ऋषिमुनि के प्रभावी रंगरूप देकर व्यासपीठ पर बैठकर व्याख्यान करता. चिंतन से लेकर विचारों के प्रसारण तक केवल एक ही वर्ग पूरा काम करता है तो फिर जो परिणाम आएगा  उसकी सिर्फ सहज कल्पना की जा सकती है. एक प्रकार से इन बुद्धिमानी जीवों का सर्वहित लक्ष्य हेतु एक संगठन हो गया था, जो एक साथ मिलकर एक ही जैसी व्याख्या करके अन्य प्रजा के पास से धार्मिक लाभ और महत्व बटोरता था.

इस एक अधिकार वाली चिंतन परंपरा में भगवान बुद्ध ने बड़ा बदलाव लाया. उन्होंने अन्य वर्णों के लोगों को भी चिंतक बनाया. उतना ही नहीं उन्होंने देवभाषा को हटाकर उसकी जगह लोकभाषा-मातृभाषा को महत्व दिया. बौद्ध काल में ब्राह्मण, क्षत्रिय, वैश्य, शूद्र सभी वर्ण के लोग चिंतक बने हैं.



आडंबरयुक्त या लघुता ग्रंथि से पीड़ित समाज, चिंतन को महत्व न देकर उसकी भाषा या चिंतक की जन्मजात श्रेष्ठता को महत्व देता है. हमारे यहां इस वजह से सामान्य कक्षा के चिंतकों ने चिंतन को संस्कृत भाषा तक सीमित कर दिया और दूसरा, ऋषि मुनियों के नाम पर चिंतन पर एकाधिकार कर लिया. मेरी बात कौन सुनेगा?  इसी लघुता ग्रंथि ने मेरे बोलने को अवतार, ऋषि, मुनि या आचार्य के मुख में रख दिया. अब मेरी बात मेरी ना रहकर वशिष्ठ, व्यास या राम, कृष्ण की हो गई. लोग आज भी इस बात पर लड़ते हैं कि श्रीराम ने रामायण या श्रीकृष्ण ने महाभारत में जो बोला है, क्या वह झूठ है. उनको कौन समझाए कि इन सभी ग्रंथों में राम और कृष्ण नही बोलता है अपितु उनके माध्यम से लेखक बोलता है और लेखक भी वह नहीं है जो उस ग्रंथ के लिए प्रसिद्ध है; यह तो कोई दूसरा ही है.

Communication and Television

Humans are proven to be the best of animal species not because they have smarter brain but they can most effectively understand the other human being. Of course other living creatures too understand each other and a little more of their enemies but they are no match to humans when it comes to communication. From the Stone age to global world humans have understood and explained the demand of the situation. They have adapted best therefore evolved best. All of this was possible because of their constant communication skill. Humans can simultaneously be both emotional and rational. They will rationally create something to communicate something most emotional. Television is one such miracle of human evolution.

"My heart leaps up when I behold a rainbow in the sky" are the words of the most celebrated romantic poet William Wordsworth. The discovery of television has helped us see these kinds of imagination with our own eyes in an easy way. Even John Logie Baird, the inventor of electric television would perhaps not have imagined of the impact which television has today in society. Television has made communication fast, effective, more reliable. With the help of television one can receive reliable news from the four direction of the world at the click of remote control. The technique of presenting diverse, colorful imagination into visual property has enchanted viewers of all the age and areas. It communicates ideas of education, information, imagination in an entertaining way.

However print, radio and Television often work in synchrony, the last is more powerful than the preceding two. Television uses visuals which communicate most effectively to convey the meaning. For example, there is a vast difference between listening to a live cricket match on radio and watching it on TV. The latter gives the viewer much more comprehensive and dynamic picture of the event.

According to famous scientist Vikram Sarabhai, Television should be used for education purpose. This use of Television has benefited the students of remote areas. There are education programs in which comparably tough subjects such as science, mathematics and English are taught by different teachers. It can be also helpful in decreasing the fear of such subjects in students as the medium being visual the students are not afraid of their teachers.

Information dissemination has gained momentum over the recent years in television this is specially due to the availability of internet. Whether it is news, wild life or some space project, television has everything to offer. It has many interesting and important things to offer.

Television has communicated to the people of all ages in the most effective way. It has also played an important role in the lives of ordinary people by communicating culturally powerful ethos. For example, one cannot help noticing the tug of war between husband and wife over the remote control whenever there are concurrent program like cricket match and TV serial.

Television is arguably the most effective medium of communicating a messages as it appeals both eye and ear simultaneously. As soon as television starts communicating, it captures the whole attention of its audience. It is powerful also because it can appeal and communicate both literate and illiterate. Eleanor Roosevelt, the wife of Franklin Roosevelt, says " Television is the newest and most controversial wonder child of modern science and industrial ingenuity, and because it appeals to both the eye and ear simultaneously, television may make the greatest possible impression on the human mind."

The television has its drawbacks too. It has negatively impacted the children mostly. It diverts more than it helps. There have been instances of children ill communicated by TV programs. Obscene and violent visuals and language could impress the mind of children in a most negative way. In modern day cartoons and games cultivate young innocent minds of children in the most illogical and brutal way. The powerful graphics of the games haunt the psychology of the children like nightmare. TV steals children's time from important activities. For hours the toddlers as well as rather young children keep sitting before television sets gaping into the virtual reality of this evil media. The sportive games and activities have almost ceased to take place.

The aim of television might have been to draw people closer from the world over but instead even the family members have become distant in one's own house. The latest version of television in the form of You Tube backed by high speed internet connection has completed this all. Now one can see hundreds of people sitting in airport, bus station or railway station but no one talks to anyone. The real communication has lost its charm and importance as every source of information is available more accurately and speedily over internet. This negative impact of television must be dreaded of.

Many scholars have disdained television fearing that it could create virtual and unreal earth on the earth where real problems will be shrouded over the fantasy and fancy of visual media. Newton N. Minow calls the television programs as the "vast wasteland", further a study conducted by John Robinson and Steven Martin from the University of Maryland declares that the people unsatisfied with their life spend 30% more time than the satisfied ones. Television has therefore been criticized and given various names such as 'idiot box', 'boob tube', 'chewing gum' etc.

New Budget

Newspaper Headlines

Guha says 'CAA is immoral, illogical and ill-timed'

In respect to 72th death anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi the famous historian Ramchandra Guha visited the city and delivered a lecture on 'GANDHI AND INDIA TODAY' in ThakorBhai Desai Hall, Law Garden Ahmedabad on Thursday evening from 6 to 7:30 p.m.

Guha expressed his anger about the nature of the much talked about CAA Act and NRC. He called the CAA Act illogical, immoral and ill-timed. Guha said that there are economic issues of great concern which should have been given priority by the ruling government.

Connecting Mahatma Gandhi to the present situation, Guha invoked Gandhi's idea of Swaraj. He further advised both Ambedkarites and Gandhians to sort out their differences and come together.
Guha emphasized that the present problems of the nation demand both Gandhi and Ambedakar's ideas of democracy and social justice.

In a question to the contributory role of so called  secular parties for the present havock, Guha bluntly criticized Sanjay Gandhi's pro Hindu tendencies during Indira Gandhi's rule in India. He further blamed PM Modi of showing partiality by invoking only those Gandhi's ideas which suits BJP agenda. Guha said that all the Gandhian institutes should be suspicious of Modi.

It would be interesting to see how the Gujarat government and other so called Gandhians institutes respond to Guha as for all of them Gandhi directly or indirectly still matters.

We miss you bapu!

From the childhood we have been taught that Gandhi had us given freedom from the British rule. He is our father of nation so we as children start idolizing him and sing bhajans and dhuns on his name. Unfortunately for many people Gandhi can never come out of this simple understanding about him but nobody tells why and how Gandhi should be called the father of nation. By the time we get to study some authentic literature of Gandhi much intentional malice about Gandhi will have been instilled in our immature ears of us. As a result we spread illogical and untruthful opinions about Gandhi.

It is 72th death anniversary of Gandhi and he has become more than ever relevant today. Despite his hectic schedule, Gandhi was able to write on all important issues of the world. He has written on man, machine, earth. He taught humans to coexist peacefully; to live exploiting least of the earth including all living being; and achieve higher goals in life.

Albert Einstein said of Gandhi that "generation to come will scarce believe that such a one as this ever in flesh and blood walked upon the earth." It is true because even we Indians have failed not only to implement Gandhian practice in our daily lives but on the contrary we have devalued his name and ideology which surpassed narrow boundaries of Nations.

Many people now very comfortably justify Gandhi's murder. We are with our narrow perspectives of life. We cannot interconnect personal, public, spiritual. We have started to glorify unscientific approach in every sphere of our life. We do not understand the science of earth, the compassion for humanity, the service in politics, beneficence of money etc.

We have been now oftentimes accused of becoming insensitive to the suffering of other living being. Our failure to understand the science of earth has started showing calamitous pop ups in the lives of other living species. Gandhi had warned Indians not to imitate Western approach of industrialism. He advised us against any kind of hatred. But we have exactly been practicing the opposite.

The chief reason why Gandhi still matters is his honesty. He was the greatest champion of Hindu religion but worked for the betterment of the religion by working on the down sides of it.

Looking at the present scenario in every terms be it community, politics or environment, Gandhi matters. And if India wants to become the Jagad Guru of the world then Gandhi' s ideas and thoughts must be practised in every possible way.

વિદ્યાપીઠના ધતિંગ

આજ રોજ ગાંધી નિર્વાણ દિન નિમિ્તે ગુજરાત વિદ્યાપીઠ અમદાવાદ દ્વારા વિદ્યાપીઠના કેમ્પસ થી કોચરબ આશ્રમ સુધી મૌન રેલી યોજવામાં આવી હતી. આ રેલીનું કુતૂહલ હતા ગાંધીજીના હમશકલ જેઓ ગાંધી ડ્રેસ અને  ઢબ માં  આ રેલીના દેખાવ પૂરતા આગેવાન હતા.

વિસ્તારથી જણાવીએ તો ગુજરાત વિદ્યાપીઠ અમદાવાદ નો વહીવટી વિભાગ છેલ્લાં થોડાક સમયથી પોતાના માખણિયા અભિગમને લઈને વિવાદમાં છે જેનો અન્ય એક પુરાવો ગાંધી નિર્વાણ ના દિવસે યોજાયેલી રેલી માં મળ્યો જેમાં એક શકસને આબેહૂબ ગાંધી બનાવીને રજૂ કરવામાં આવ્યા.

ગૂજરાત વિદ્યાપીઠ એ ૧૯૨૦માં સ્વયં મહાત્મા ગાંધીના હસ્તે ચાલુ કરવામાં આવેલી એક એવી સંસ્થા છે જેનો મૂળ ઉદ્દેશ્ય સમાજમાં સુધારણાત્મક પ્રવુતિઓ થકી સકારાત્મક પરિવર્તન લાવવાનો છે. પરંતુ આજકાલ આ હેતુને એટલો બધો સંકુચિત કરી દેવામાં આવ્યો છે કે ગાંધીજી ના રાજકીય અભિગમ વિશે વાત કરવાનું પણ ટાળવામાં આવે છે. તેથી જ તો દેશના રાજકારણમાં ગાંધીના નામ ના દુરુપયોગને લઈ કોઈ ખેદ પ્રકટ કરવામાં નથી આવતો. અરે તેથીય આગળ કોઈ રાજકીય હોદ્દેદાર દ્વારા ગાંધીનું જાહેર અપમાન કરવામાં આવે તોય આ સંસ્થાના પેટનું પાણી હલતું નથી અને ઉલટાના જે વિદ્યાર્થીઓ આ બાબતે જાહેર અસહમતી પ્રકટ કરે તો તેને વિરોધી તત્વોમાં ખપાવી દેવામાં આવે છે.

ગાંધીજીએ જીવન પર્યંત હિંદુ મુસ્લિમ એકતાની વાત કરી અને આ દૃઢ માન્યતાને કારણે જ તેમનું ખુંન કરવામ આવ્યું. છતાં ગાંધી નિર્વાણ દિવસે યોજાયેલી રેલીમાં અને તે પછીની ૨ કલાકની સભામાં આ બાબતનો કોઈ ઉલ્લેખ ન કરવામાં આવ્યો. એક વાત તો અહી સ્પષ્ટ થાય છે કે આજના કોમવાદના ગંભીર પ્રશ્ન ને લઈ ગાંધીસ્થાપિત સંસ્થા પાસે કોઈ પણ જાત ની આશા રાખવી મૂર્ખાઈ સાબિત થઇ શકે. 

29 January headlines

પોલીસ ચોરથી સાવધાન!

આજ રોજ પાલડી બસ સ્ટોપ થી એક પોલીસ કર્મી નો મોબાઈલ સહિત અન્ય દસ્તાવેજો અને પૈસા ચોરાઈ જતા તેઓ શરમજનક સ્થિતિમાં મુકાઇ ગયા.

વધુ માહિતી મુજબ  GJ-18-02-1147  અમદાવાદ થી બહુચરાજી રૂટ ની બસમાં પાલડી બસ સ્ટોપ થી બસમાં ચડતી વખતે એક વિરમગામ સ્થિત મહિલા પોલીસ કર્મીના પર્સ માંથી મોબાઈલ અને અન્ય દસ્તાવેજો સહિત રોકડ રકમની ચોરી કરવામાં આવતા અચરજ ફેલાયું હતું.

આ બનાવ ની તુરંત બાદ બસને વાસણા હાઇવે પોલીસ તેમના નાતબંધુ ની મદદ માટે દોડી આવ્યા હતા. વડીલ મહિલાઓ સહિત તમામની તલાસ લેવામાં આવી પણ ચોરી કરનાર પકડમાં આવ્યો ન હતો. ઉલ્ટાનું બસ મુસાફરોને લેટ થવું પડ્યું અને અન્ય હાલાકી ભોગવવી પડી.

અહી સવાલ એ ઊભો થાય છે કે જો બેફામ ચોરના સંકજામાં પોલીસ કર્મીઓ પણ સુરક્ષિત ના હોય તો સામાન્ય જનતા કોના ભરોસે.