Second Year ..... 2
I along with my friend Jayaprakash Narayanan used to attend most of the elocution competitions happening in and around Madurai. The main draw back for us is that we have less touch in literature, so when the topic is announced just 10 minutes before the start of the event, we always had problems in organising points for the talk.
Two eventful incidence are
1. On the Poet Bharathiar's memory there was competitions (probably arranged by a School and some association). The title was 'if Bharathiar was alive today'.
The event being on a holiday, there was a moderate crowd and more adults.
The competitors were praising that he would have been happy about the developments and improvements that have taken place in the recent years. Me and my friend were feeling restless on the way the praising was going on and wanted to take on the other side.
My friend had the first chance and mildly he spoke of setbacks and saying 'he (Bharathiar) may not be happy'
After some time It was my turn - ' Dear all It is happy to be here in the competition under the name of Bharathiar. I am coming from a village and I got down at ... and walked through a chettiar road and the mudaliar lane to reach this place. Did Bharathiar wanted such things? ' . And I gave some references of women inequality news of that time. 'What Bharathiar wanted to happen - eradication of caste and male - female in-equivality are existing today. So if Bharathiar was alive today, he would have killed himself '
Obviously I did not get the prize but the presiding chief guest made good references of my anguishment.
2) Second one was organised by State Government in connection with the birth centenary celebrations of VOC (V O Chidambaram Pillai, freedom fighter from Tuticorin). It was a district level competition, organised in Yadava College in Madurai. The selected speakers will be participating in the final event at Chennai. This elocution was chaired by the then Education Minister Sri Thamizhkudimakan.
When the topic was given, we were down. Being in Engineering college we have less knowledge on these area to speak in a competition. For arts students who keep reading the history the topic may be very simple .The topic was ' Which was predominant in VOC's life - affection towards home or nation?'
I just made the very general references and completed. The person who came after me started criticising my talk line by line. I felt bit offended by that. We used to see this student in most of the competitions and neither he nor we won prizes. At least we got good comments from the chief guest.
When the Chief Guest came for final selection, he had fully blown that person and said 'you have to present your points and not criticise other's points. We are not concerned about only the fluency in the talk but the material in it'. Any way at the end we were not selected, but we were satisfied.
There were many smaller level competitions, but not much to be remembered.
I along with my friend Jayaprakash Narayanan used to attend most of the elocution competitions happening in and around Madurai. The main draw back for us is that we have less touch in literature, so when the topic is announced just 10 minutes before the start of the event, we always had problems in organising points for the talk.
Two eventful incidence are
1. On the Poet Bharathiar's memory there was competitions (probably arranged by a School and some association). The title was 'if Bharathiar was alive today'.
The event being on a holiday, there was a moderate crowd and more adults.
The competitors were praising that he would have been happy about the developments and improvements that have taken place in the recent years. Me and my friend were feeling restless on the way the praising was going on and wanted to take on the other side.
My friend had the first chance and mildly he spoke of setbacks and saying 'he (Bharathiar) may not be happy'
After some time It was my turn - ' Dear all It is happy to be here in the competition under the name of Bharathiar. I am coming from a village and I got down at ... and walked through a chettiar road and the mudaliar lane to reach this place. Did Bharathiar wanted such things? ' . And I gave some references of women inequality news of that time. 'What Bharathiar wanted to happen - eradication of caste and male - female in-equivality are existing today. So if Bharathiar was alive today, he would have killed himself '
Obviously I did not get the prize but the presiding chief guest made good references of my anguishment.
2) Second one was organised by State Government in connection with the birth centenary celebrations of VOC (V O Chidambaram Pillai, freedom fighter from Tuticorin). It was a district level competition, organised in Yadava College in Madurai. The selected speakers will be participating in the final event at Chennai. This elocution was chaired by the then Education Minister Sri Thamizhkudimakan.
When the topic was given, we were down. Being in Engineering college we have less knowledge on these area to speak in a competition. For arts students who keep reading the history the topic may be very simple .The topic was ' Which was predominant in VOC's life - affection towards home or nation?'
I just made the very general references and completed. The person who came after me started criticising my talk line by line. I felt bit offended by that. We used to see this student in most of the competitions and neither he nor we won prizes. At least we got good comments from the chief guest.
When the Chief Guest came for final selection, he had fully blown that person and said 'you have to present your points and not criticise other's points. We are not concerned about only the fluency in the talk but the material in it'. Any way at the end we were not selected, but we were satisfied.
There were many smaller level competitions, but not much to be remembered.
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