Poetry, politics mark day two of Chandigarh lit fest

Celebrated creator Gurcharan Das, in his keynote deal with, traced his life’s journey from making a residing to creating a life, which, in response to him, must be the aim of life. “This must be the obligation of each guardian and each trainer to inculcate within the younger technology.” Making a life, he recalled, was his father’s philosophical steering proper from the age of 4 when he entered the varsity for the primary time, and later at Harvard, he selected to review literature and philosophy a lot to the dismay of his mom.

Das joined Procter and Gamble and have become the CEO of the corporate. On the identical time, he began writing performs that had been carried out at Broadway, which led Das to discover additional the enjoyment of writing that impressed him to maneuver from ‘making a residing’ to the method of ‘making a life’.

He shared the intrinsic idea of his earlier writings that explored the ‘purusharth’, the three points of our life – artha, dharma and kama. “My subsequent guide would now discover the ‘moksha’, which might be dealing not with religious freedom however the liberation from normal discontent and disillusionment and what I name faulty human circumstances, ensuing from man’s bondage with ego, envy, and greed,” he mentioned.

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Later, the panel comprising Dr Surjit Pattar, Rana Selvi, Peerzada Syed Altamash Nizami, in dialog with Affan Yesvi explored the Sufi and mystical influences on Indian literature and the bhakti motion that advocated the universalism and oneness of human existence. Dr Patar additionally spoke concerning the position of music that’s seen in lots of historical scriptures together with Gurbani, Persian, and Urdu literary works of Hussain and Bulle Shah, who rejoice this oneness. In one other panel, Shally Vij talked about ‘Anubhuti: Boltey Maun’ with the Chairman of Chandigarh Sahitya Akademi Madhav Kaushik and Bittu Sabeena Sandhu.

Within the afternoon session, ‘Confluence and Affect of Politics and Media’, Rajya Sabha’s youngest Member of Parliament Raghav Chadha together with journalist and creator Rasheed Kidwai and journalist Ramesh Vinayak, debated on the altering media state of affairs and the affect it has on the general public psyche. Expressing anguish over the prime-time information channels upsetting divisive sentiments amongst folks, Chadha prompt the necessity for self-regulation by the media and the adoption of moral practices to remain non-partisan and goal of their shows. Kidwai added that a big inhabitants prefers such content material and provides legitimacy to the information channels to garner TRPs. The panel expressed concern over the rising use of false, faux, and unsubstantiated tales damaging the general public determine.