Life never stops but runs for ever. Body must die but life dies never. \ Life feeds ever on Tradition's nurture. It's Tradition alone that begets Culture.
The essence of these
philosophical lines imparts culture through the best medium of tradition on the
basis of which man is differentiated from the beasts, courtesy from vulgarity
and the Earth from other planets. Without the treasure of tradition, life is
not social; but only biological appropriate only to beasts; not to human beings.
Addressing the
dignitaries I pay my best thanks to this assembly designed to settle if the
Modern Life-Style is Taking Over Our Cultural Life or not. I would like to draw
the attention of the dignitaries, the judges, my ambitious competitors and of
all the other audience at my views that are to go in favour to the the proposal.
Dear audience! We have stepped today on the advanced land of
21st century that is specifically known for the arena of Science sustaining a
facilitated life much away from the dreams of our medieval ancestors. Our space
journeys have opened several new lands to live on, our weapon- researches have
made us free from all warrish threats and our What's App-Face Book has put the
world onto our palms. But , think for a while, have we made this journey straightforwardly to the present
era? No .....! Not a bit. We have made this journey of advancement step by step
safeguarding the experiences of one generation for the benefit of other
generation. Every coming generation has sought new efforts and added something
new to the previously gained achievement and thus the modern aspect of the
universe has come to human vision. This generation-to-generation on-going
process of life being developed is
called tradition.
The word 'tradition' itself is sufficient to interpret all
the glory of modern era. All modern scientific advancements had been envisaged by our ancestors before thousands
of years. Our scriptures sanctify this belief. The Pushp Viman of the Ramayan
had envisaged the helicopter, in the Mahabharat Sanjay distantly watching the battle
of Kurukshetra envisaged the television
and alike Bhishm Pitamah while sitting there in his palace talking to the Ganga
had envisaged the whats app-talking of the modern age. It means it's tradition
after the glorious modern age.
Culture is just a child of tradition. Today man has varied
cultures but they all have been sprouted from and are fostered by certain
traditions. That's why the life sustained by a definite culture is healthy and
strong; and vital even in all negative situations. Culture may there be in its
varied forms but all its forms are aimed only to make life healthy and wealthy
of all expectations. This is the main reason that cultural life is always
advanced to any other form of life.
Life without culture soon gets distorted in its every
feature. Today; we see; some baseless powers of personality and behaviour
without being sanctified by tradition distort our cultural life under the
affectation of modernity. Such life-styles have come to fashion that they fully
avoid our tradition supporting our culture and consequently our cultural life gets distorted.
This distortion to cultural life is due to various areas of
modern life style. Today the fast songs
have made us forget the rhythmical songs of the last century; that would glorify our traditional life, a crazy race
after government service has made us forget all about our traditional
occupations due to which we have lost our self-reliance and inherited skills,
our over- facilitated life has made us forget all about the direct contact to
nature due to which several bodily and psychic diseases attack us day and night
and , after all, our blind-imitation to modern pleasures and our
over-dependence on Science and Reason have made us forget all about God; the
Creator. We have inclined not only to atheism but also to blasphemy due to
which we have made ourselves a victim to anxiety, depression and failure. We
have acquired material prosperity at the cost of mental peace and inner
satisfaction.
The WWE hair cutting style and the french cut beard of the
boys have made them spontaneous enough to despise all the rebukes and fears of
elders. The on-line games have abstained the youth from muscle exercises. The
kid cars, Chhota Bheem, Doromen etc. like TV shows for kids have abstained them
from the grandmother's stories fully filled with moral values. The careless use
of mobiles have made the youth be addicted to video-watching, not anyhow common
to our culture. Not only this, the editing apps are misused to misinterpret our glorified
past and the over-dependence of whats app-face book like social media have
engulfed our family as well as community talk.
Today the short clothing of females, their sleeveless shirts
and their step cut hair style, their curtain bangs, their shag cut etc. provide
them additional freedom that may incite mishaps. The tendency of male-female
equality and the reduction of genderic discrimination has brought the opposite genders so close
that a sudden friendship takes place and how soon that friendship gets
transformed into so-called love, nobody knows. The scene doesn't end here. Love
and madness run side by side and love-marriage gets place. This marriage
without the bond of tradition and without the safety of culture soon gets
broken or runs with no ideals due to which the next generation becomes fully
ignorant to cultural values.
In the traditional set up of education the children would
accomplish their study-period through the prescribed text books in well disciplined classrooms under the full
authority and control of the teacher. The modern life style has made the
children so much facilitated with pass books and E- material that they never
get acknowledged to the real content. The syllabus is reduced, teacher-power is
reduced and the percentage of marks is increased. A higer percentage has become
a point of prestige. It is the modern life style that counts percentage; not
knowledge. The over-gaining marks attitude has defeated the knowledge-based
culture of our education system today. The showy shining of the modern age has
pushed the pearly originality of our long aged culture into incessant darkness.
This assembly of thoughtful audience has to consider at what extent the modern
life style has snatched our cultural life. We were the products of such a
culture that was enriched with all life-giving elements, that bestowed us a highly
contemplating mind and that was sanctified even by Gods. But, today that superb
culture has been buried under the morbid and false aptitudes of modernity. Our
culture would give us a vital
opportunity of being there in the company of nature gazing every aspect of
nature. We would be charmed at the chirping of birds, we would collect peacock
feathers, we would watch the rainbow with
unblinking eyes and we would play
with lambs. All these activities would connect us to cultural values i.e.
solidarity, affection, co-operation etc. The modern age has changed our agrarian life into industrial
rush dragging us from our rural background to urban gloss. I don't mean to
defame the industrialism and urbanism. Of course they are good, but only upto
they don't attack our culture and tradition.
Progress of any field must not give its side-effects to the
culture and tradition. As a modern progress we made law-courts under the
democratic set up of our ruling system in the mid-20th century. We intended to
provide ourselves an all over safety through the law-courts. These law-courts
have beyond doubted given us individual safety but individual safety doesn't
mean cultural safety. We have never thought how deeply and hideously these law-courts have attacked our culture.
These law-courts have sanctioned inter-caste marriage, live in relationship,
beloved-keeping, lesbianship etc. that are considered good in no culture. It
means our law-courts engrossed in modern
life-style attack our cultural life. Society is superior to law courts. Social
rules are more life-giving than the legal rules to a descent life.
A culture is always to foster life. It sprouts a positive
energy to life. An all around development is bestowed to life only by culture
and so life is only to be cultural. If the cultural life is attacked by a
negative force, it becomes a pious duty to all to defend it. Culture is a
legacy to us left by our ancestors who expected us to leave it in its same
pious form for the generation coming after us. So, we must have an intellectual
fight against all the forces negative to culture. A self -participation is
needed here rather than being assured on our governments or on law-courts.
Sometimes our governments and law-courts seem to be so much engrossed in their
own interests that they seem to be unknown to our prestigious culture.
It is not our culture to condemn the faith of others even if
we are atheist but if we do so, we commit a cultural offence for which our
law-courts have no remedy under the pretext of freedom of expression. It is not
our culture to give a part of legacy to
the married daughters but law-courts sanction it. It means law and culture may
have a contradiction, but then culture needs more attention.
It's my heart and intellect-felt concept that this assembly
here is absolutely aware at the cultural-life being attacked by the modern
life-style and that this assembly is aptly thoughtful in having a debate over
the burning present issue in whose favour I have proceeded my pleads.
Thanks for the
attentive listening.
Jai Hind!
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