MAJ RATI KETEKI

Directors Santwana Bardoloi and Green Zeng with My Media Gang

A breathtaking Press Meet and the day turned out to be a red letter one by the sanguine presence of Assamese Director SANTWANA BARDOLOI .. A poet can distinguish human anguish in the lonely cry of a Keteki singing in the night.... The very movie and the director moved me a lot.. Perhaps,one of the best movies that I take to my heart and soul from this IFFK-International Film Festival of Kerala... Truth is always bright athough not clear to the human eyes.. But truth- what is that and whose perception???.Jani na! I wish I could understand Assamese language.. Even the very subtitles echo in my mind like a Keteki... Hope I come across such a writer like Priyendu Hazarika someday who can aspire the lover of words to attain their dreams at its zenith....Thanks to open my feelings to the director and especially the fact that I could associate myself with her character Sumana, the aspiring writer.. Thanks a lot for your inspiring words...

A day that meant a lot in my life.. Let me cite an incident which broke my mind like anything couple of days back. An unknown unseen scientist who insulted me by words saying and explaining the superiority of science to arts.. Science people are in fire and the people like me from the liberal arts have nothing better to do other than read, write, enjoy and play with words.. Science people are only busy...Are they only busy? Navin Christian, Johan S Ben, Anakha Ajith- true na???Now I have come across a Doctor by profession brimming with aesthetics and literary pulse...The thing which astounded me the most is how a paediatrician has this much passion for arts and literature. The movie opens with the dedication- 'I fly because of you'- Dr Jayanto Bardoloi(her better half).. Hope she will fly high like anything reverberating the Keteki's voice in many minds like mine...It is not the stream of arts or science that matters but a mind and heart to know,learn and feel the art of 'real life'... Not justifying arts, science and not even complaining any.......

Hugs for the Aspring writer Sumana in my entity.

READINESS/RIPENESS/SILENCE is ALL

Should I unfold the saga in an ancedotal style???? Might be dramatic! I discern TODAY as the best day to 'unfold this feel' after pending this for long.... Anakha Ajith n Nikhil Sunnymon- I couldn't curb this any more...Sorry my Cuties <3 <3 <3

In this typical tech savvy world of wats app. phones smarter than d smart generation youth, conditional and two/five yr model policy relationships, I felt a spl brouhaha on this very day.Albeit I pondered over and analysed this fact many a times, I think ther is much scope only for 'literary illiteracy, sanitised violence and vulgar exhibitionism"only... The other day I lent my ears to a couple of poems of which one small simple poem penned by Prof Ranu Uniyal was quite ravishing.I quote one or two lines which really striked me a lot.. The poem goes like this
'foto sach nehi hothi/ ladkiyom ki tarah.
lekin hothi hei ek camera mei, ek samaj mei...."
I am not sure whether this poetry of hers has also bagged awards like the other precise and touching ones. Another poet found beauty of face in a 'clay' and the other one in 'thousands of spoken and unspoken words'...........I was in an utter connundrum- which is true- readiness is all??/ ripeness s all?? silence is all? All these words have become mightier than sword ,penned by the same genuis.....................At once somebody mumbled from within- a kind of Laertes polonius mutter- 'To thy own self be true"........
Thanks a lot to all the wonderful people I hv come across within the last 2days span- Philipose VMuncle, Sreedharan Parokode uncle, Janardhanan Ji, Sitanshu Sir, Avdesh singh Ji, Anuradha aunty, Sarita aunty, Nayak ji, ......................and the list goes on.......U ppl made me realise that peace is the strange commodity in the age which we live in and literature is in its struggle....The generations who cannot seem themselves in mirror indulge in mirroring 'dinchaak/totta' pics in fb.....Let me mention a typical kerala frnd of mine who is so good in uploading his/her pics n LIKES all d pics esply those in which whoever eats, drinks, baths,dances r whatever except the meritorious stuffs, others achievements , awards n recognition..The funnniest part is this literally illiterate man is from a renowned IIT from non Arts stream.Another category frnd who js comes n inboxes in fb- dint u like my post?y so??r v supposed to like and comment everything dt appears in fb? this persons know only take policy - oh, coin has become one sided???? These are js two examples I cited which comprise the so called faculty lok also esply those who only n always say "good, very good comments' always directly and in der groups....But they know only to like the 'pics of so called ghora ghori chora choris (may be beauty outwits merit for many ppl including the so cld shatterers of darkness from society?)only albeit dey say very rude/bad cmnts about dem in der own groups.......oh may be literary theory of duality....... I wish to rewrite Frantz Fanon as White in skin Black masked mask... Hv v told dese ppl to say mere n utter ridiculing very good/natak comments??Whatever 'truth is strange always n stranger dan d fiction too'.... There r exceptions everywhere n sm ppl do stand a part apart from all d mere pleasing n praising attitude signifying nothing... I salute my REAL teachers a lot My Sindhu mam, Ramanan sir, Girija teacher, Anirudhan sir,...(list goes on) my convent school teachers <3 <3 <3 
When I pen this I feel literally proud from my heart as a South Indian Malayali speaker understanding Tamil and a speaker making chaala bavindhi try in understanding Telugu..... Anakha Ajith- statement upside down..now its chathukko Appu...auna, Kutty????Being an ardent devotee of the love queen of Malabar, I too hv learnt to dream only in one language despite all class, caste, race conscious lok I am encircled by... I suspect- merit s nothing,has merit bcm nothing??Js like Lear's cordelia nothing comes out of nothing..Here its reversed n culture of silence s d best way n appeasement s d holy slogan for all irrespective of north/south all geographical differences n distances of our Mother India.............But Once again I realise that LITERATURE is not a police station where u can expound the FIR details..nvr n not at all.....When my heart pulsates, my words overhear words talking to each other, I I feel myself sublimated like a Franz Kafka esply his short story the terror of relying on one's own watch......yes, b what u r js as d way u r...life is not at all a ha ha he hee hee js as d fiction says.......
Thanks a lot to lot many hearts esply d destructive crtics(mainly community promoters) who js fire n inspire d strength to many like me........
I dedicate this to my spl Sadia Arman deedi n let's join our hands n heart together as U told me.......Loved ur meeshti bangla, khoob bhalo comments and desires and above all a heart which tries to heal and not to hurt many hearts and the 'weaker cum fairer sex' in spl.... <3 <3 <3 <3...... From Udaipur - The City of Lakes, the real stream of somethings - gona commence.......janina??let's hope fr d best, deeeedi 

OUR BOOK to the LIMELIGHT !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Finally our book came to limelight edited by Gopika Govind, Adv Amina Shajahan, Amala James,Gayathri GR n me. "KERALA - AN AUTHENTIC HANDBOOK "edited by us for the INFORMATION n PUBLIC RELATIONS DEPT to the GOVT of KERALA. Feeling glad to see  our names as "Editors" in the  front page. Thanks a lot to my dearest guide Dr.Bhoomika Ma'am, my dearest teachers DP NeGi sir and Vijay sir for their wishes. Anakha Ajith  and Nikhil Sunny -you guys will be treated in special as very special soon when I get the salary from our Secreteriate office soon..love you, my cutiessssssssssss. <3 <3 

Special thanks to my dearmost Kalidas Pavithran uncle for his whole hearted support for evreything especially for boosting me up by your words and messages from abroad when I am literally dying and feeling useless at that desert..Thanks a lot, my dearest uncle......
....DP NeGi sir- A very special thanks to you sir, for your prayers. Your words have come true and I got a golden opportunity to get the  copy signed by my ever wellwisher and  favourite personality B. Srinivas IAS, Director of higher education, finance  to the Govt of Kerala................ Humility and down to earth aer something else as we discussed it many times with social workers.........

Thanks a lot to Radha Krishnan sir for bestowing this amazing chance to become a part of the kerala Govt.....
Abdul Azeez sir --------- I do take ur words into consideration especially the "culture of silence ".............I hope now you understand my life is literally a waste and its destined to b "wasted in the  desert air".... dats Y "kerala calling " me back and I yearn for my journalistic days.. Anakha Ajith n Nikhil Sunny ---- anything wrong??????????
Once more, Thank you all<3 ..hugs and kisses to my parents, meenukutty and my chittappan....

With B Srinivas IAS sir

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THE WORDSMITH OF KUTTANAD

Missing the warmth and serenity of my land.Glancing through the pages of Life of the multitudes of Kuttanad aroused my pulse. Kuttanad- An amazing geographical region on the banks of Pamba  river manifesting the natural beauty of my God's own abode. Known by the sobriquet"the rice bowl of Kerala", the life of people hailing from this land is vested on the farm lands and paddy fields. This region, a thing apart from all other regions of Kerala holds disparity in social relations too.I am always fascinated by the Thakazhi village of this Taluk and its grandeur was brought to the map of international acclaim by none other than the realistic writer who portrayed the real man with flesh and blood- Thakazhi Sivasankara Pillai..

If classicism can be called the absence of humans, romanticism is the human beings at the extremes of human emotion. It is in realist writing only, we can feel the man who is depicted as the way he is although far away from the ivory towers and sky scrapers..I was really moved when going through the felt miseries and hardships undergone by the middle class people of Kuttanad portrayed by Thakazhi......So, I have made up by mind to go and have some time once again at this land of "real innocence and sincerity" of the agrarian life of my state which is often ridiculed and addressed by some guys of the desert where am now staying as the "sate with high literacy". Even though they criticise a lot,it is a matter of pride that my state holds such a position and let the situation may not get degraded like some other sates of India which are "literally illiterate". Whatever happens, some conceptions are never transformed from the minds of man and that is what is reflected to a great extent in the writings of the novelist of Thakazhi as well.Now waiting eagerly to hv the nx trip to Aleppey with my IJT PRESS CLUB 2013-14 gang .As usual,farmer suicides of Kuttanad create a major hubbub. But now the situation has given way for "babu kuzhimattom's, Mani sir's,Kiss of love and so on...........Still something rocks me back to the agrarian land which fills my recesses with the freshness of ever green colour hinting a note of optimism.

Dedicated to my dear friends who are always the great admirers of our culture ,land and yearning to have a glance of Kerala bust in scenery, greenery and the warmth of valleys, lakes and the village folk!

SREE NARAYANA GURU AS A SOCIAL REFORMER AND HIS BLOODLESS REVOLUTION FOR THE DOWNTRODDEN IN KERALA( my published Abstract and paper selected for publication)

Sree Narayana Guru, the renowned social reformer, philosopher, saint and sage played a prominent role in elevating a society like Kerala engrossed in caste evils and untouchability to a state that stands in front in equality and literacy now. Being a karma yogi and jnana yogi rolled into one, his mantra of “with malice towards none and love for all” enabled him to fight against the heinous acts of casteism and became the voice of the marginalized. His indefatigable preaching of the doctrine “one caste, one religion, one god” turned out to a be a clarion call for the multitudes of oppressed sections of Kerala to make them aware of the need for the social and spiritual upliftment. In order to materialize his dream for the unfortunates, he began temples and educational institutions with the motto “progress through education, strengthen through organization”.

  My paper will begin by examining the role of Narayana Guru and how he succeeded in earning a status for the ‘Avarnas’ or the low castes with his silent revolutionary competence. The paper intends to focus on the social inequalities he also faced in his own Ezhava community where they had to keep a certain distance from others as per the unwritten hierarchy. He envisioned a noble place where “all live in brotherhood without difference in caste or cancor of religions”. The paper would throw light on his Sree Narayana Dharma Paripalana Yogam, consecration of Ezhava Shiva temple at Aruvippuram that created a maelstrom in Kerala, Vaikkom satyagraha and Temple entry proclamation. His proficiency in Sanskrit, Tamil and Malayalam are reflected in the form of literary outputs like “Atmopadesa Sathakam”, “Darsanamala” and translation of “Thirukkural” into Malayalam. The aura of this magnetic personality inspired Kumaran Asan, one among the trios of the Modern Malayalam poetry to prove his pen is mightier than sword with his realistic poems. I would like to conclude the paper stressing the fact that Sree Narayana Guru and his contributions to God’s own country can be never be ignored. There by proving that “posterity will not willingly let this charismatic prodigy die”

MEDIA AND POLICY MAKING ( An Abstract of my paper selected for BICON International Conference 2015)

Media play a quintessential role in the daily life of an ordinary human being. In the hegemony created by smart phones, selfie sticks, social networking sites comprising face book, twitter etc, media have given priority for trivial incidents these days. In the hustle bustle of the modern life, people find social media as their safe and quick source to express their opinions, criticisms and comments regarding the daily happenings around them. When new generation strives to express their viewpoints at the earliest on whatever issues, they try to impose their dominance over others and wish to become a hero. The online webs and portals have relegated the status of public opinion to gossips and scandals. My paper will begin by examining the role of media, The Fourth Estate in moulding the “public opinion” and how it varies from the “published opinion”. The online, social and broadcast media have given way for conventional journalism and now it is the era of “citizen journalism” and cut throat competition among individuals who try to become the content makers of the day. I would like to throw light upon the facts that constitute policy making like the identification of problem, policy recommendation, decision, implementation, evaluation and resolution.

Media corruption undermines Indian democracy and it’s quite hard to say whether there exists any difference between fourth estate and real estate. What befalls at times is that media distort the news and we find difficult to make the truth out of that. In order to substantiate this view, I would like to quote the statement of P.Sainath, the renowned columnist and Magsaysay award winner who once opined “if patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel, what the reader wants is the last refuge of every intellectually bankrupt editor on earth”. The arena of media is corrupted like anything and their squalid approach is competent enough to portray wholesale lies as news. In this context, I would like to hint on paid news that can be called a double jeopardy for democracy. The cancer of corruption has penetrated into every nook and cranny of the world and at least media should take some initiatives to get rid of the danger as they are capable of creating a resonance in the minds of multitudes.

Media may be free politically but imprisoned by profit. It is the dire need of the hour to get rid of the anaemic role of media so as to bring forth quality news and content to the public free from all kinds of biases. The paper would also give an idea on the recent trends in media namely whistle blowing, trial by media, sting operation, corporate dominance and political party dominance.

 I like to conclude my paper with an optimistic note that qualitative changes will definitely happen in media in the nearby future and policy making area in these days of media convergence thereby proving that media will become a part and parcel of the wifi life of us and policy making.

A TRIBUTE TO THE TEACHERS WHO FOSTERED ME FOR WHAT I AM NOW !!!!!!!

“The average teacher explains complexity; the gifted teacher reveals simplicity.” ― ROBERT BRAULT.....

My Dearest School Teacher Sister Jenova Mary

Dedicating this very special day to my utmost loving teachers Mohan Ramanan sir, Sr Jenova Mary, Sindhu Ma'am n all those who made me a mark and role in my life. I am utmost glad after talking to my dearest Mohan sir in the mng. I just cant express my feelings after talking to you,sir - your influence and inspiration as an ideal teacher, HCU Dean and above all like a caring grandpa heart emoticon heart emoticon heart emoticon .Thank you so much for ur words of positive energy and determination and wishes...Really glad after talking to my guide Bhoomika Ma'am whose sincere words only make me go amidst all the cultural and regional and religious disparities here and only my Anakha Ajith(meenukutty) n Kavita Jewaria know how I survive in this Bandarsindri village..Last but not the least, my dearest Arpana Ma'am who scolds and encourages me the most in CURAJ campus n someone who is like my Sindhu Ma'am r Girija Ma'am- A teacher whom I respect for the way she is..( even my dearest junior Kamini also shares the same view about her♥ heart emoticon .

Dr Bhumika Sharma,my Research guide cum mentor

Many teachers have taught and created many images in my life but some deserve a special mention inspite of race,religion,category, caste and they taught me not to confine to the prescribed books and go ahead "to strive, to seek and find " something new" and marks never determine our future instead the knowledge, content, how we perceive and make better use of them by implementing in real life.... Special mention to dear Abdul Azeez sir for expounding everything with the touch of my home state cum vernacular language and for teaching me "the culture of silence " which is the dire need of the hour in this campus especially as a Malayali and above all the so- called badge of "South Indian" as if like South African. My dearest Pallavi Tak ma'am for her smiling and usual inspiring face and really glad to share some moments with you and today's morning chat made me happy like anything and conveyed that to my mom n sis as well. Above all Jagdish sir,DP Negi sir, Vijay sir and Atiq sir for considering me more r less a part f their MSW dept and for giving me much opportunities to improve and prove myself. I am truly grateful.....wishing you all a very Great  and Memorable Teachers day.
When education and teaching are relegated to the  mere status of "praising and pleasing " the powerful authorities forgetting the dharma of a Guru-- The one who leads us from the dark and trails us to the light of knowledge, I suspect what the posterity will face as the teachers play a quintessential role in shaping the youth. Even the meaning and role we attribute to teachers undergo radical transformation these days.Still, I expect and conclude with a note of optimism that there will be teachers who strongly uphold the view that their role is not to cut down jungles but to irrigate deserts.Looking forward to see my mother India brimming with such loyal and ideal teachers who can be called the real "makers of the society"

My Days as a college Guest Lecturer