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Travel & Places - Kolar Gold Fields(KGF)

Distance:

63 miles from Bangalore

150 miles from Chennai(Madras)

68.35 miles from Vellore

PERSPECTIVE /RELATIVE BEAUTY

KGF as a mining town has a contemporary history of little over a hundred history. KGF sits at the top of the Deccan Plateau at an altitude of 800 to 900 meters from its nearby Tamil Nadu & Andhra Pradesh plains. Mining started much before the British came.

After taking over from the East India Company in 1856 (during the First War of Independence), the British (Imperial Government) was interested in surveying the Indian terrain at the time they learned about KGF. According to mainstream media, the British only became interested in the folklore of the locals.

But the British now and then do not go simply by popular beliefs only. They research using scientific tools and then only start working on it. and clearly sticks to the plan with room for improvisation. Hence, only the British race by far is the most successful role of the homo sapiens. This KGF area is a very small industrialized area of about 2500 to 3000 hectares. KGF has 2 parts- a)Mining & Govt Estate Area b) Labourer quarters. 100 to 150 years back then mining was very much a laborer's work.

The British got a huge chunk of people from the nearby plains of North Arcot District (presently Chittoor, Nellore, Vellore, Thirapathur, Ranipet, Thiruvanamalai Districts of Andhra Pradesh & Tamil Nadu.

combined with the famines of the 1900s world wars. the KGF employee's families enjoyed a lot of luxuries and privileges in comparison to their counterparts elsewhere in southern India.

This you can find with every KGFian all have a sense of privilege and talk with high emotion in almost every sentence. Because the past glory and gratitude to the KGF mines saved millions of lives from dying in the famine in the plains.

Enjoy the talks of the KGF citizens almost everyone will tell you stories with their own version of the mines.

The old-time KGF steamed with activity every day between 5 am and 8 pm with a lot of snack shops, soup, and tea stalls in action.

The mining area is dotted with Bungalows and Greenplaygrounds.

KGF shut its door circa 2000.

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Recent history taught us one important lesson

In India the success of a new thing relies with how much Indianness it is launched

Viz

1. See the highways and the metro rail project each one of them are launched overdue and mostly differing from initial plan yet it succeeds big time

2. Good schemes with ontime launches never make it

Take for the instance India was the one of the first country to impose the lockdown before covid largely gained any ground yet just after 3-4 months we started to top the covid infections chart

Indianness- i refer here as the degree of pace with which life moves on without much planning

And plan always keeps changing

This attribute is largely due to the Agrarian mindset of us

Agriculture as an occupation is a time consuming one with not much decisions to be taken on a day to day basis

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Movie Review of Sarpatta Parambarai

Sarpatta Parambarai

Well executed neatly written film.

The film can be viewed for both its cinematic grammar as well as for the message it wants to convey.

The sweat of labor oozes out in frame in this movie.

Ambedkar used his education to fight against injustice similarly Pa Ranjith using his cinema expertise to convey his message and he is doing pretty good.

A good movie is one that can make you internalize its characters and Sarapatta doesn’t disappoint in that respect.

Mention about the technical work

Pa Ranjith has extensive research work on the boxing competition that used to happen in Madras now in Chennai dialogues screenplay perfectly sync into a genre of film

Its a period film so we have to create the same environment to have the same impact, however writing is strong still to pull off such a task is not easy by any means art director (Ramalingam) work is very much commendable

Next is the cinematography by murali color template

has correctly chosen to recreate 70’s in which film rolls on and having to work with minimal light

Mon most of the scenes his camera speaks to us beautifully and the montage scenes of Kabila's training on the beach are wonderfully done, to say the least

Editing in these films is a tight rope walk the balance has to be perfect there because on hand movie talks about sports ( boxing) which has to action-packed fast-paced and on the other hand it has to talk about the social events that shaped the everyday lives of the boxers with its template being slow-paced with facts and details.

Both contrasting in nature but the editor has given us in the right measure in a way that's enjoyable for us

One has to understand that Live experience of these boxing match are always much different than watching a recorded telecast

The editor has done ✅ a great work again giving in the right measure be it the aura of the crowd in the boxing area pandal and those brain freeze moments of boxers that happen just before the final knockdown it is all there with cinematic flair.

In Sarpatta Parambarai the director has tried the template with more ambient sounds and less background music

Though very less to play with for

Santosh Narayanan gave the template he has given his best nevertheless

The theme pieces of music and the two songs blend nicely with the narrative

Sound design by Ruban a big thumbs up.

The hearing the echoes reverberating from the 70’s kulai speakers after each announcement 📣 and commentary is an experience itself that in today hardly anything matches.

In a tightly packed boxing arena pandal, its reality that apart front seat VIPs rest every day would follow the game from speakers.

Ruban brings all that into the film.

A Director can have a vision and can have all the skills to execute it

But it is the Producer who makes it possible to happen unless the producer himself has a vision he wouldn’t agree with the director that's why the role of the producer is ‘THE ‘ in the film making process Neelam Productions a very big clap to them

Finally pulling off a film in this covid era is very much a herculean task pa Ranjith makes us feel an exhaustive task a breezy one with the finesse

in his finished art form Sarapatta Parambarai

Thoughts:

Many raving for his bold inclusion of reformative people in Ambedkar, Buddha, Kalaignar, Periyar, Annadurai in the backdrop.

Some are against saying it as a propaganda film like former Tamil Nadu minister Jayakumar

But actually, Pa Ranjith brought us the close to the real picture of what had happened in the boxing era of Madras (Chennai) that's about it simple and straightforward

Have to mention unlike his previous outing of Kala, Kabali, Madras where he had been very vocal about his views but here he is not vocal at all but the impact here is much greater than it was before.

He has learned from his mistake and rectified it has come out very well in a way all of us like...

Directors message

1.Seize the opportunity and make use of it

2.Give your best the world will speak about it surely even if u don’t win a competition

3.A true mark of a champion is learning from his own mistakes and beating his own demos.

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Every year we had experiences and emotions yet 2020 taught us many things.

I like to remember few things that 2020 taught me

1. Self help is the best help

2. Each and everyone in the society is responsible for others wellbeing

3. Be prepared always

4. Mental fitness is supreme

5. Office politics is way easier than home politics 😃

6. Durg or alcohol abuse is not the prime reason for a lot of deaths but it is the lack of mental toughness and resilience

7. Decisions are not be taken in a haste anytime eg:migrants issue

8. It is tough to live alone

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The Manual Scavenging Community is considered to be the most expelled and oppressed

communities among the Dalits (Ramaswamy, 2011). Among the caste hierarchy in the Hindu

caste system, dalits are considered to be untouchables and are excluded from various groups in

the society. Manual Scavenging is predominantly related to forced labor. They also inherit this to

their family members. Apart from the social stigma, they suffer from various health diseases.

The children of this community are gradually deprived and the occupation is carried over for

generations. Even inspite of constitutional laws which prohibits discrimination the marginalized

groups continue to face discrimination in India. The education system continues to persist based

on caste as well as occupation. The schools and colleges in india School authorities in India

constantly discriminate the children from marginalized communities, without allowing them

their right to education (Bajoria, 2015).

"Untouchables" are often coercively allocated the most filthy, inhumane and dangerous occupations,

for example, cleaning human waste. The work they do adds to belittling they confront from the

encompassing society. The rejection of caste-affected communities by different gatherings in the

public arena and the natural auxiliary disparity in these social connections prompt large amounts of

destitution among influenced populace gatherings and avoidance from, or decreased advantages from

advancement forms, and for the most part blocks their inclusion in basic leadership and significant

investment are out in the open and common life.

The Dalit community are rarely accepted and rejected from basic leadership and significant

support in broad daylight and common life. Absence of unique enactment prohibiting standing seperately or absence of execution of enactment, because of broken frameworks of equity.

Children of Manual Scavengers

The manual scavengers‘ children face discrimination as they are vulnerable. It is evident that the

children belonging to such communities face discrimination in schools and also lead to being

dropped out of school (Ramanujam, 2016). The children reside in isolation and in separate

places.

Indian human rights organization conducted a survey and it revealed that the teachers, local

governments and community members repeatedly make it a obstacle to the children who attend

school and are forced into labor as an everyday experience (Indian Solidarity Dalit Network,

2014). There are a few studies that largely pointed to the role of caste in education, for example;

teachers discriminating, punishing dalit students, giving tasks such as menial jobs and having

relationships based on caste with the peer group (Acharya, 2010).

Ìt is a matter of concern that surprisingly has been neglected by the education policy, in

academic discussions and research. Studies have broadly highlighted the role of caste in

education, for example teachers‘ attitude in discriminatory and defamation of the dalit students,

giving them menial jobs as task and also caste based peer relations (Banarjee, 2014).

Nevertheless there is little research that recognizes areas and the methods of exclusion and

practices of discrimination in schools and how the children are influenced through these experiences.

Discrimination in Schools

One of the primary objectives of the researcher is to comprehend, what the different ways in

children of manual scavengers are being discriminated and to what degrees. Majority of the

respondents have confronted discrimination. For example, in schools. There are children who

originated from different foundations, participants said that they ‗do not get treated similarly as

far as clearing questions which are related to the syllabus or empowering the students to question

and clarify doubts which are being taught by the teachers in schools, yet other set of students do

say that they are not being faced any discrimination in the treatment as there are the children who

belongs to the same community in the schools.

Selected quotes

The following are few of the statements derived from the researcher‘s discussion with the target

segment.

A student of “15 years old students” says that “The teacher always made us sit in a corner of the

room, and would throw keys at us [when she was angry]. We only got food if anything was left

after other children were served…. Gradually [we] stopped going to school.”

“We were asked to massage a teacher’s legs. If we refused, he used to beat us. There was a toilet

for teachers, which is the one we had to clean their washrooms.”

One of the participants explained that he experienced many types of discrimination. ―While I

was in secondary school, I had no friends, with the upper caste only a couple of other children,

who happened to be from a similar untouchable group. I couldn't get the water from the

neighborhood tap in school not at all like whatever is left of the children. Teacher‘s used to treat

me in an unexpected way; they would state, "Why do you try to get an education? You better

stay back home and help your folks in the work to work". They would request that untouchable

children tidy up the toilets in school, which upper class children would not do, as it is respected

the obligation of lower standings. My experience of discrimination was not restricted to the

school alone, I needed to confront discrimination in each phases of my life, for example, while

going to school in the transport at school.

Being faced discrimination in a day everyday in lives of students makes the child go through low

self-esteem, lack of self-confidence. One of the participant shared that whenever she visited the

schools for parents meeting she used to feel very inferior“It makes me feel like I'm not welcome.

I feel like I can't trust anyone. I feel like I'm not free. I'm starting to believe that maybe I

should've just killed myself a while back before someone else does it. It makes me feel like I have

to fight for the rest of my life. I don't want to have children that have to fight their whole lives

either, especially after I'm dead and gone. There's no way people should have to fear the people

around them”.

From the above it is evident that how a person feels emotionally and where the participant has

also stated that she wanted to end her life, discrimination in this form is disheartening. The way

the participant has responded has made the researcher understood that the society lives through being judgmental and defining a person because of their caste / background.

Discrimination from teachers

The majority of the respondents have not shared their parent‘s occupation with their teachers and

fellow students. They share the other alternate work which their parents do for livelihood; they

feel it as a matter of shame to tell the type of job to their teachers and friends. But on the other

hand some of the respondents have shared about their parent‘s occupation to their teachers and

friends, it is a relevant factor because the other children who attend the Government Telugu

school and in this place many students whose parents are involved into the same occupation, But

in the case of the children attending the private schools, they shared that during parents and

teachers meeting our parents are being made wait and priority is given to the parents of students

who are well off compared to us. The teachers do not make our parents sit but they make other parents sit and talk, and they do not share about the good marks we have scored but they speak

very discoursing of the negative marks we score in other subjects. The researcher observed that

in an educational institute the teachers also practice form of discrimination of students during

important meetings such as parents and teachers‘ meeting.

One of the participants is a high school student who has dreams and ambitions to become an

engineer, recollects her days in the past when her parents and grandparents would go to work and

she would be left to take care by her neighbors as a child. After joining a school she had friends

from different denominations and she always longed for her parents also visiting her in school

and getting her lunch, dropping and picking her up as she grew she was curious to know why it is

only her parents who were not being with her and they do not reveal their occupation as well.

She was inquisitive to know about her parent‘s occupation when one day after her 7th grade

examination, when she visited her friends place she was shocked and heartbroken to see her

mother who was cleaning the washroom of her friend‘s house. She was into tears and she

returned home shared her emotions to her parents and that is when she learnt that her parent‘s

occupation.

She could not face her friends in school, as they all knew about her parents and she withdrew

from the school, although she was a topper in class she withdrew from her studies in school,

which carried a good impact in the place. she studied through scholarship and she never faced

any discrimination among her friends and teachers, she says that I was a merit student and I was

appreciated by my teachers and friends but from the time I knew about the occupation of my

parents, I hesitated to go school, I‘m sure my teachers and friends would treat me well, though

they know my family, I feel very inferior and I chose to withdraw from school.It is understood

and relevant that she has never faced any discrimination from her teachers and students before

the mother‘s occupation was revealed. The researcher also witnessed the above as when the

process of interviewing was done in the school the head master of one of the Government

schools encouraged a student and also a parent whose child was being irregular to the school.

And the other respondents who study in other schools with different children say that they are not encouraged by the teachers and help them with their studies.

Relationships with friends in the class

Majority of participants do not bring their friends home because of the locality where they

live and also the friends are not interested to visit their houses in that area. But sometimes few

among the respondents said that during occasions friends from different localities visit them if

they invite and out of which very few turn up.

“During occasions like Christmas, we are asked for cakes and sweets to buy, there was a time

when I distributed homemade sweets but they preferred to take the sweets bought from the stores

outside”. It is relevant that even in case of friends visiting the homes for occasions they feel that

they are being excluded from participating in the festivals celebrated by their friends.

Emotionally, the children feel that it is a form of practice which they have being seen from the

beginning and also their families practice the same”. The children are allowed to go the houses

of their friends who are from different localities as they study in the schools where many from

different other backgrounds study and therefore the children go to their houses, but it again

depends on whether the other community children family accepts them.

Even during playing games, they have an individual playground where other community people

come and share the playground but there was an incident during tournaments “my brother is a

very good football player and he was given many awards, but for a tournament he was made to

become a coach and he was not being given any payment, which he was entitled to get he felt

very discouraged because of this, and also we felt it’s because we belong to a different

community. She also mentioned that, we feel that, we are already used and accepted this kind of

treatment from the society. The dignity of labor has not been conveyed to the other community

children where these groups are being looked down on.

Discrimination in Public places

―I needed to work close by my family during my holidays. I recall, once I was parched

between works. That evening, as it was an exceptionally a hot day, I needed to drink some water;

I asked the station woman, the proprietor of the ranch to give me some water. I didn't carry the

glass to drink from, and she would not give me a chance to drink from her glass as it can cause

contamination. Accordingly, she needed to pour water from far above onto my hands. I felt

profoundly embarrassed. I ran straight to my mom, and I disclosed to her that I am going home;

I would prefer not to work in a place where, I cannot in any case get water like people. There

were numerous dairy cattle munching on the homestead and pooches and different creatures

wandering unreservedly around, and had no contaminating impact on the upper position

individuals, though me, albeit human, needing water, was treated with such a cruel

demonstration, just because of my being conceived in untouchable family”. One of the

participant shared this when he was not offered a glass of water in a glass, but due to the

background of the person he was asked to take the water in hands and drink it, the station women

would have known nothing about the person except for the caste, and the background of being in

a manual scavenging community, here the researcher highlights that however educated or

qualified a person is, but still they are defined by their identity or from the family they are being

born into.

Imperatives of mother tongue and dialect of school

Language was discovered as a requirement for the children who have their own mother tongue other

than English. In spite of the fact that Telugu children have been living for around two centuries and

are encompassed by standard individuals, due to their imprisoned life since they have been brought

here and absence of social mix, their language and culture have not been changed. They utilize their

own particular language, Telugu, in their regular day to day existence. Their dialect and culture are

additionally fortified by the recreational courses of action they have. Their main mode of in home

recreation is watching satellite television watching Telugu films and melodies. So child‘s take in

Telugu which is not the same as the language drilled outside their settlement. When they begin

tutoring, they think about in English language which is practicallyobscure to them. Language used as a part of school in addition uncovers their character to their

companions and make another space for discrimination.

Discoveries demonstrate that the manual scavengers children' first language not just makes it a

issue for them to change to the language utilized as a part of school yet additionally uncovers

their personality of being children who are untouchables, and makes another space for being excluded.

Awareness to the society

The mind-set of the society also needs to be changed as the practice of the Indian society is

hierarchical through the caste system and the notion of considering the dalits as the backward

class and not considering them in different areas such as education, workplaces, public places

should be eradicated. Making education a fundamental right is the way in which the state invests

in the youth–the future of the country. The total number of out of school Dalit Children

according to the National Sample Survey is a staggering 2 million. Education is considered a

form of cultural capital that is crucial to social mobility.

Caste based discrimination is pervasive, not just in the actual institutions of education but even in

accessing basic standards of living that enable attainment of rights. “Teachers and

administration make it difficult for us to obtain everything from entry into labs, library books,

and scholarships to job opportunities. We are made to run around from one office to another for

This occupation evoked because of caste system. Instead of creating a technology to remove

human excreta from houses, the pandits took the easy way out by condemning a particular caste

to do the job. Even when the technology was available, our Brahminical bureaucracy was

unwilling to abolish manual scavenging. This is the sad commentary on India's industrial

renaissance. While pampering despicable new reach middle class with modern toys of cars and

mobile phones we still have night soil to be carried physically by poor people. Humiliation and

degradation is a weapon that the powerful use against the weak.

Manual scavenging is much to be considered as an issue that could be controlled and prohibited

through proper policy making and creating a strong legally enforceable bill for which many

movements have taken place. The noteworthy thing about this issue is, it is prohibited by the

Indian constitution in 1950 but this practice is prevalent in most of the parts of India till 1993.

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1. Indian electoral size is 900 million but its population 1.2 billion so a minus 300 million there and then in the 900 million only 67% franchise their votes that equates to 603 million .603 million out of 1.3 billion equates to around  50% .so at the end 50% only decides the fate of India. Which is not enough for a multi dimensional demographic Indian society.All the voices will never be heard 2. India is a young country its average is 28.7 years as per CIA worldfactbook 2017 to the contrary its representation in 15th lok sabha is 57.5 years. 100% deviation question arises how a 58 year old can reflect the minds and needs of 28 yr old exactly a generation apart there may be few expections. That's why there is always big wide gap between what govt provides and what the people need. 3. Today u have competitive tests and interviews for everything but why no competitive test for m.p,m.l.a's. 4. A Bureaucrat who runs the government invariably has to go through rigorous training and studying but those  who will be  managing them need no competency how does it  equate and work out????.. 5. And finally a normal family head with a ratio of 1:5 many a times struggles to voice everyone's opinion 6. The Indian parliament has strength of 790 (545 Lok Sabha,245 Rajya Sabha) 1:16 million which means those members should greater than thinkers than Buddha,Jesus,Prophet Mohammed all these 3 great reformers of human kind roughly reflected the minds of may at the max a million each still less than what a Indian mp needs to reflect. 7. Even we go by paretto principle 80:20 that's a very far distance to go it would require 260 million representatives to represent the Indian population a mere 1% still requires 13 million representatives. All that we have got is only 0.000067% representation. 8. Having said all these numbers it's a  open secret that even a equally disproportionate indian judicial system says that most of our m.p's have criminal proceedings against them. 9. With  nearly 1 billion subscribers of mobiles every decision of the  government should win a majority through mobile voting taking the evils of manipulations that can be done with mobile voting if done with a very fair counting and results decalaration it will on any day better than what india has today with its parliament. 10. India's strength is its human resource no other resource can equal to human resource .But rather a boon India sees and experiences it as its major weakness. 11. Complete overhauling of the constitution,ipc code,judicial system has to done to suit Indian demography of today. 12. For a better and brighter India 13. Else this story will continue forever for generations to come

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India has the greatest ability to adapt to new technology with a huge young population.

Hence with the new technology traditional skilled sectors which are in all means inhumane in today's world should be abolished and alternative jobs should be given for those affected with loss of livelihood.

Some of the skilled sectors that can be abolished rightaway are

1.Manual scavenging

2.House keeping(sweeping) of civil premises

We should quickly bury our over emotional attachment with culture n history and quickly adapt to modern technology (use of machines) in order to achieve greater heights and a smoother process in the forthcoming days.

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Jealousy

21st generation people are far more jealous than before because they have the luxury of stalking into the lives of other people 24 *7 and also this generation of people right from day one in their life they are taught about competitiveness.

Competitiveness is perhaps the greatest misunderstood word of the dictionary as of today.

To be more competitive people become jealous (more concerned) about others achievements and activities rather than their own.

Example:Person A buys a bike for his easy commuting to his work place and home. Person B his neighbour also wants a bike just because other one has a bike though it was very comfortable, economical,time appropriate for him to commute to his work place by bus all these years

To rectify this 'STOP' being concerned about others and work yourselves for good

BEAT YOUR OWN BEST every single time.That is the way to develop your own self.

Competitiveness doesn't mean that you have to replicate/duplicate others.

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Jealousy

21st generation people are far more jealous than before because they have the luxury of stalking into the lives of other people 24 *7 and also this generation of people right from day one in their life they are taught about competitiveness.

Competitiveness is perhaps the greatest misunderstood word of the dictionary as of today.

To be more competitive people become jealous (more concerned) about others achievements and activities rather than their own.

Example:Person A buys a bike for his easy commuting to his work place and home. Person B his neighbour also wants a bike just because other one has a bike though it was very comfortable, economical,time appropriate for him to commute to his work place by bus all these years

To rectify this 'STOP' being concerned about others and work yourselves for good

BEAT YOUR OWN BEST every single time.That is the way to develop your own self.

Competitiveness doesn't mean that you have to replicate/duplicate others.

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Gender Bias

Whether you believe in theism or atheism it does not matter,  it is to be understood that there is only one species called Homo sapiens(ourselves).

There isn't any separate male or female humans, it is the beauty of nature/God that for life to sustain and continue for generation we have a male and female ,nothing more than that.

Apart from it men and women are humans their individual capacities and capabilities are limitless.The things that a male or female can achieve is based solely on that individual's will, determination, passion, grit, quest for knowledge and thirst to excel.

But we have inscribed so many limits into the brain such that we become totally immobile and make our life revolve inside the four walls.

Also we have been very biased such that it is made to believe that anything that a women does is of inferior quality so on and so forth.

It is utterly irrational, the same woman when she cooks it is good, the same woman when takes care of the home it is good, the same woman when she goes through the pain and gives birth it is good.

The reason behind most women not being able to same thing better than a man is not because of their lack of skill but because of their denial of equal opportunities to get educated.

More than that it is the right to get exposure by the family society and self.

You get educated in a formal institution (school, college) but then you should be allowed to get experience and to explore the world around you to have a better understanding.

In the pre-historic the human society were built in such where men and women used to wander, group of men hunted the animals and women collected the botanical edibles.

Remember back then the 'cooking was communal' and so as the feasting.

But now everything is changed cooking is individual so as the feasting and nobody needs to wander around, everything is viable on one's fingertips.

So the prehistoric practice is outdated and needs updation big time.

Nobody should be limited in the name of anything particularly in the name of GENDER.

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Solution 

Everyone should be educated about ourselves  ='THE HUMANS' and also that we are equal.

The uniqueness will have to get created through one individual's education, likes, dislikes, exposure, experience and not with GENDER.