“People always say ‘This is my right and that is my
right’, I don’t agree with it always. Won’t they have any responsibility in
this country?” Rakesh S Katarey (July 26, 2012)
“At the same time when people
deny / violate all social rules with the support of the word ‘right and
freedom’, they give least priority to their responsibilities in a nation like
India.” We concluded our discussion with these sentence, after expressing our
ideas and opinions in various subjects like Maoism, Crisis of CPI(M) in Bengal
and Kerala, Karnataka cast politics, Udupi Bhramins and Mangalore Shettys,
Trade unions and proletariats, united and disunited labor, bond-labor, social inequalities, expansion of
middle-class and impacts, policy making of the administrations etc. Mr. Rakesh
Katarey again becomes a teacher to me after a long time. We used to discuss
such things in and out of the classroom when he was teaching us at Amrita
School of Communication.
“Indian Metrology Department could not predict rain, flood and draught
ever in the history of its establishment, any natural disaster badly effect to
the common man of the country (Poor), not the top class society” – The Hindu
News paper (July 26, 2012)
“India going to suffer another draught and food crisis in the year 2012
due to the improper monsoon, center planned to do some prevention measures” - Malayala Manorama News paper (July 27, 2012)
“I will live how the way I want, I have money and I can spend for any
purpose, you are not allowed to show your social commitment and responsibility
in my decisions” – said, a very important person of my life, (live in Middle-class society,
24yr old) (July 27, 2012)
Four
different ideas, lead us to think more when you connect one to another…
NITTE School of Communication
and its infrastructures are amazing, and it holds a beautiful green environment
– cool wind gives a lot of relaxation. It was simple visit to see my old
teacher (still he teaches me outside the class over the phone and email). We
some of us continued a good relationship with him even after he left our campus
last year. It was just more than a student-teacher relation, so it could easily
cross all the boundaries of college. We had a lot of discussion in those days,
doesn’t matter how much anger/fight it produce, and the very next day we again
sit together in another topic to debate. I never had such a college time in
life, it continued until he leaves the college and felt deserted in the
remaining 1year with his absence. He is a chairperson in NICO and working hard
to set-up a new communication school, I’m sure it produces brilliant media
professionals in future. NICO is great in a sense. It would not demand a gate
pass to go in and come out. Unfortunately I forgot to carry a camera with me;
else I would have attached few snaps of NICO and Rakesh Katarey. I don’t know
why would some of use hold such a care and relation with him, he has given us
nothing but knowledge. I feel this cyberspace is very limited to express what
all in my mind.
He has given me a good intro
about Mangalore and shown many places, narrated many incidents and some
personal experience which he shares first-time with a student and had dinner
together. I have no great words to explain those moments, in a short ‘a day of blossom
and its fragrance’. “It was lovely having sometime with you Murali”, that was
the last sentence he said while dropping me in the railway station, which means
a lot to me.
The
Mangalore train journey was awesome. Rain, sunshine, cold wind, sceneries of
backwater, sea, fields and villages all came and danced before my eyes.
Murali
Margassery
muralimargassery@hotmail.com
