An educational and literary journal
INDIA REDEEMING-education
& literary quarterly
WHY A LITERARY JOURNAL
There are seas of books, e-books, magazines, journals,
newspapers and many other sources to quench our thirst for information and
knowledge. All of them can satisfy our curiosity in knowing more and more.
In contrast, life is short, uncertain and bubbles like
existence. The fact that we have got limited time of our
life requires us to be selective in making our choices.
WHAT DO WE DO NOW?
Creative Communication Grammar Course
Editor
Each literary source plays a definite role in transmitting
knowledge and honing intellect. Those sources of information and knowledge
which simply update us on topical happenings do not interest us as much as the
ones that prod our intellectual curiosity for learning and tickle
in us an aesthetic appeal for art.
The key to the fullness of life lies in striving for the
harmony of the aesthetic development of senses and the intellectual growth of
mind. The former makes life beautiful and the latter rational and scientific.
At the confluence of these ethereal streams dwells the power of the human
spirit to mother new thoughts and ideas. This, clearly, equips us for
better living. Hence, we must make correct choices in order to grow in
life in all manners. Our right choices mean a definite
guarantee against false decisions.
It is indeed a thing of rarity to get the best of both
worlds in one source of learning. It happens rarely that we have a journal
which radiates the fragrance of fresh and original ideas from the best of the
bunch in the society, who are ever ready to put their heads and hearts
together in the best interests of humanity at large.
There may be many a literary journal produced with a view
to contributing to the common cause of nation building; there may be many more
in the offing. But how and why the one we are going to publish is way different
from all the rest is foremost left to the judgment of readers. We only
make submission. Even so, it is for the entire world to see what exactly we
mean when we say that every word thus spoken
and written will be cast in the mould of action and every action thus moulded
be called into the play of redeeming, India Redeeming that is.
Given the magnitude of the tasks we have set ourselves-
contributing to India Redeeming- innovative thinking should supply us with fresh
new thoughts and guiding principles. Vision guarantees overall
perspective. It also gives definitive direction to all our
endeavours. Prudent decisions will determine our course each step of the
redeeming way. It really demands of us ingenious insight that could cover all
the ground of human enterprise; yet represent the common interests of people
who, as any sensible person can see, are groaning under the burden of social
disparities and discriminations. They are hardly ever left with time or chance
to realize the depth of their hopeless condition. So, there is a crying need
for ‘something’ that beckons aspirations to redeeming; that is also a true
harbinger of revolution and reconciliation. There is a heightened need for
‘SHAKE UP WAKE UP’ initiative that could awaken our sleeping humanity to the
urgency of mitigating the man made sufferings of life.
All it takes to meet the tall order is, again, innovative
thinking coupled with a capacity to make farsighted decisions backed by
workable vision. INDIA REDEEMING-education & literary quarterly is
the brainchild of the curious mix of these imaginative and inventive
ingredients.
It seems as if all ruling intellect these days is gone too
far deep in the shallows of short-sightedness to see through their own
rosy pictures concealing the moral and social degeneration raging all around.
For example, man has grown too technical to think anything better than mint
money by fair or foul means. Indian Shylocks have already kidnapped a sense of
work ethic from day to day conduct of social affairs debasing morality and
degrading nature, goring these for their own pound of flesh, flocking around
increasingly as hyenas, vultures, crows do about carrions. Where did we of Veda
blood pick this unbecoming way to live?
It seems that almost anything goes in the name of
creativity these days, no matter how self-destructive it may be. We have T.V.
Channels, newspapers, magazines, even book culture portraying the drama of
obscenity and self debasement. Most of our channels are endlessly dishing out
the gruesome gruels of blood and gore, unscrupulously sensationalizing
everything to garner TRP in amassing fame and fortune from the mine of the
masses’ gullibility. As a result, the viewers are served the staple diet
of all triteness as their food for thought. Man though becomes what he thinks!
His thinking is certainly influenced by what he reads and sees around him. It
is but natural for a common man to get affected by pathogenic substandard
thoughts and ideas attacking the health of his character, integrity and
discretion. Young minds are the most vulnerable. Is this any way to mould our
next generations? Is this how you deal with nation’s future? Aren’t Indians
then afraid of another round of subjugation? We are so prone to it, aren’t we?
New generation knows little of martyrdom! And eternal vigilance remains the
price of liberty! Nothing less!
To a large extent the national media is also responsible
for the prevalent ‘state of the art’ decadence of modern Indian society. How else
does one account for its failure, still worse its machination to not cover most
of the national news stories to their logical conclusion? Must they always keep
the public guessing? How can they account for the paid-news insanity? How do
these editors, the so called watchdogs of news world, square the fact with
their conscience that they should lead professional life without practicing the
principle of accountability? What is their logic of sensationalizing a news
story with absolutely zero newsworthiness as regards our nation’s real
advancement? What is the rationale behind legalizing ‘private treaties’ through
which a newspaper enters into agreement with the cine world, a political party,
with unscrupulous business group to ensure favourable coverage in return for
unethical monetary gains, that at the cost of nation? What moral right then do
our national media have to stand over other pillars of our democracy and to
demand actions against the wrong doers when they themselves have stooped so low
as to have their own price? Freedom was won and paid for with martyr
bloods; for Indian people, for their freedom, for their welfare, for the
restitution of Indian nation and civilization which was long held in limbo
exactly on such traitorous element’s account in the past. The enemy within is
always the enemy first!
WHAT DO WE DO NOW?
The only antidote to such fatally diseased society is
‘a-public-service-media’ which doesn't have its side-effects like
commercialization and corruption; the media where the soul of our nation
finds free, fair and full expression ever guarding against all kinds of
decadence and degeneration.
Our nation’s given
state of affairs- hopeless as it is- calls for a concerted efforts of
redemption. All thinking people must get together under the banner of
a common cause ( INDIA REDEEMING -education & literary
quarterly), holding the torch of culture and learning higher
enough to show light across the nation. The intention thereby is to restore
order and balance in our lives, to begin to redeem India that is. The spirit of
selfless service must reign supreme as a matter of routine so that ‘redeeming’
turns out to be a self-fulfilling prophecy.
INDIA REDEEMING -education & literary quarterly will lead troubled Indian humanity in acquiring full
measure of our stakes. That should help us is bringing about the necessary
change for the better.
And then, we will more than match our word to our deed by
living out our precepts exactly as Gandhi did; and a bit more in tune with
changed time. This charity will begin at home. We lead simple spiritual lives
with minimal material need. We prefer to live Satwik life. We deal on
cooperative basis. Not raw profit but finer happiness is our lives’ objective
which is to say the striving for Moksha through universal brotherhood. The
point thereby is to establish superiority of spiritualism permeated Indian Way
of living in place of the culture of corrupt corporate domination, which
is but unworthy of Indian Ideals.
Finally, we mean to harm no one; seek no one-upmanship. We
dress Indian, eat Satwik food, and think pure Indian. We strongly
believe that this type of living is the sole way to lead by example. Anyone and
everyone is welcome to check our open book like lives. Unluckily, we must live
with English, for that is the imposed predominant language. We must
strictly follow the Sanskrit Sukti: KANTKNAIV KANTKAM till we have brought
about the first change in public awareness of our correct priorities.
But caution. We also strongly believe in self defence. We
shall always keep in reserve our right to hit back, tear apart any uneducated
critique. Better come forewarned and forearmed! We mean India Redeeming
business, we do.
To put in plain English, Creative Communication Grammar
Course (CCGC) is a research project that follows an innovative and interdisciplinary
approach to learning communication skills. It begins with the techniques of
teaching tenses to the learners at their elementary level and ends in
rekindling in them an abiding interest in exploiting their learning to the hilt
creatively. The course has been designed with the express purpose of making the
active involvement of the tutor and the taught a necessity.
One of the cogent reasons why most students fail to learn
effective communication skills is their lack of interest in doing so. Yet, more
importantly, what is most needed is a consistent effort to develop the skill.
The hallmark of CCGC is its innovative theory and practice of teaching grammar
with a view to developing and sustaining learners' interest in learning
language. For example, question-answer sessions of the grammar not only help
them understand fine intricacies of the rules but also both create and sustain
their interest in playing with different kinds of
sentences.
Learning a foreign language is a complex phenomenon that
requires more than an instinctive approach to understanding it.
