Sunday, October 23, 2016

"Join politics only after understanding the problems of the country and society" - T K Rangarajan, Member of Parliament

Interactive session with T K Rangarajan MP at IIT Madras organised by ezine PreSense
Interactive session with Com T K Rangarajan MP (Inset) Nurullah presenting memento to TKR
The ezine PreSense (Published by Prime Point Foundation) and Sansad Ratna Awards Committee organised an interactive session with Rajya Sabha CPIM MP T K Rangarajan on Saturday the 22nd October 2016 at HSS Library, IIT Madras.  It was a closed session with select invitees who aspire to join or grow in politics. 

T K Rangarajan is one of the well respected political leaders in India for his balanced and intellectual views.  Though he is a communist leader, he has more admirers in all the parties, including BJP,  irrespective of political ideologies.   

T K Rangarajan advised the youth to join politics only after understanding the problems of the country and the society.  He quoted the example of Mahatma Gandhi, who went round the country as suggested by Gopalakrishna Gokhale to understand the problems of the nation, before his joining politics.  

He also traced the history of politics.  He defined the politics as the 'concentrated economy'.  He said that in the world all the wars have happened with focus on 'properties'.  He also quoted from Ramayana and Mahabarata, as to how the desire to acquire property had led to dispute and war.  

He also explained as to how the economy changed in the past centuries.  Last century changed the 'barter trade' to 'merchant trade'.  

He raised a thought provoking question to the audience.  Thousands of years ago, India had great scholars like Aryabatta, Bhaskara.  Also India gave 'zero' to the world and we had great mathematicians.  In spite of the ancient wisdom, India did not attempt industrial revolution.  But it happened only in London.  He explained as to how the religion prevented industrial revolution even in England and how it was overcome.  He concluded that any religion cannot stop the growth of science and technology. 

To a question who was his Guru, he said that as an industrial worker, he learnt many things from workers.  His leaders guided him in politics.  

To another question on the linguistic partition of India, T K Rangarajan said that before Independence, Madras Province consisted of  Tamil Nadu, Andhra, Kerala and Karnataka with Madras as Head Quarters.  Though the four states were under Madras Province, the Congress Party had the Presidents based on the language only.  Hence, he said that though officially the states were under single province, practically, they had linguistic division, even prior to independence.  

Some of the elected representatives of Students Legislative Council (SLC) of IIT Madras including Venkat (Speaker of SLC), Dr Sudarshan Padmanabhan were also present and interacted with T K Rangarajan.  Nurullah, Vice President of Sansad Ratna Awards Committee presented a memento to T K Rangarajan.

In appreciation of the discussion, the participants honoured T K Rangarajan with standing ovation.

Interactive session with T K Rangarajan MP at IIT Madras organised by ezine PreSense


Saturday, October 22, 2016

Prime Point Srinivasan advises students to use social media with high responsibility and not get addicted

Section of the NSS Students listening to Prime Point Srinivasan at Anna University
Section of the NSS Students listening to Prime Point Srinivasan (Inset) 
Prime Point Srinivasan addressed nearly 100 National Service Scheme (NSS) students of Anna University on Saturday the 22nd October 2016.

While addressing the students, Srinivasan, insisted the students to use the social media with high level of responsibility and not to get addicted to social media.  He advised the students to understand the difference between the real world and virtual world.

He said that there were three eras that influenced the mankind in the world, particularly youngsters.

1.  Before the introduction of internet commercially i.e. before 15th August 1995.
2.  After the introduction of internet, but before the emergence of social media like Twitter and Facebook i.e. between 1995 and 2004.
3. After the emergence of social media i.e. after 2004 till date.

Srinivasan said that before the concept of internet, the people had enough time to interact personally with each other and to spend enough time on various productive activities.  He considered the second era as a 'Golden era', during which time, the blogs and other internet tools emerged.  These tools were very helpful to improving the writing and thinking skills of people.

He expressed concern that after the emergence of twitter and facebook, youngsters spent lot of time in the social media in an unproductive manner.  He also felt that the writing skills of the youngsters got damaged due to the shortened terms.

Srinivasan   cautioned all the youngsters, particularly, ladies not to share the private information in the social media and also not to share their passwords with others, however close they might be. He quoted examples of how the ladies were victimised because of the social media.

Finally, he appealed to all youngsters to use social media like 'shoes' which are left outside the house and use them when necessary.  He  appealed to them to enjoy the real world by interacting with all friends, instead of spending time in the social media.

The programme was organised by Anna University and National Council of Rural Institutes.  Dr Arutselvan, Associate Professor of Media Science Department coordinated the event.

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