INSTITUTE OF VOCATIONAL STUDIES, AWADH CENTRE OF EDUCATION

(Affiliated to Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University)

Topic –MOVIE REVIEW

Submitted by: IQRA MAIRAJ

Submitted to: JUHI MA’AM

BACHELOR OF EDUCATION

(2016-2018)

CONTENTS

1. Acknowledgement

2. Movie discussion

3.    Movie discussion

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

I would like to express my special thanks of gratitude to my teacher, M/s Juhi Bhidhuri, as well as our principal, M/s Niranajana Soperna, of Institute of Vocational Studies who gave me the golden opportunity for being a part of the Critical Understanding of ICT and did this wonderful project on Movie Discussion, which also helped me in doing a lot of Research and observation and I came to know about so many new things. I am really thankful to them.

  REVIEW 1

Name Of The Movie Screened – Battle for school by Shanta Sinha

Date - 27^th January 2017

Venue- Auditorium

SUMMARY

The lecture started with thanking all the people who invited her for delivering lecture, when she was asked about the topic she was interested to speak on, she straight away said she would like to speak on ‘A BATTLE FOR SCHOOL’. Even after more than half a century of India’s independence the real battle for schools to accommodate our children remains still illusive.

The country is celebrating the growth of its economy and its growing power as a key international player. One hardly talks about the real issue of our children working as child labour, who are out of schools and yet remains tolerant of the existing condition of the children in workplaces. This is also manifested in the kind of arguments people make and their misinformed perception that poor parents don’t want to send their children to schools. . In fact, there is a failure of the whole system which excludes the children, and therefore the solution is beyond the local. The factors that hinder the children from going to schools need to be addressed. Here, issues of ‘access’, ‘distance’ and the functions of the schools in a developing country like India with higher percentage of poor, needs to be redefined.

The clothes we wear too, breathe child labour. Hundreds and thousands of children work in production of hybrid cotton seeds, wrapped in violence, embedded in worn out bodies, nausea of daily lives, knocking headaches, giddiness and mental depression, waste childhood toiling relentlessly and getting burnt under heat and dust. The cotton ginning mills, handloom weaving looms as well as the spinning machines and power looms too employ children. The silk one wears, and the process of sericulture has an abundance of children working in damp, dark, poorly ventilated, and have loud, deafening music playing in the background.

School is a site for contestation of power. In a more immediate sense, schools are the only institutions, which can keep children out of work and abolish child labour. Thus schools perform a radical function as they become protector of child rights. In fact the

right place for children to be in is the school. And therefore the battle for schools must be won!

CLASS DISCUSSION

In this lecture, there is a proper show case of the real situations that students and parents go through for sending their children for study, especially poor people, because of the fact that these children are first generation learners, their parents and they themselves are not aware about the basic necessities and requirements of sending children to school.

It is also told that, there are no products that are not manufactured without the child labour involved in it, in one way or the other, so this should be taken into consideration and children should not be forced to work in any ways, as it’s their age to study, not to work and earn.

Also it is aptly mentioned that what all situations and discriminations students face in their school because of unawareness and because of the families they belong to i.e., poor families. Hence, various suggestions could be given to first generation learners and their families regarding the basic requisites of going to school, providing them a direction for their own children.

All the things that are highlighted in this lecture are totally true and accurate. It provides us with a true situation, those students from different economic backgrounds face. This could be rectified by the combined efforts of teachers and parents and an improvement in government policies as well as by the teachers, so that students and parents feel free to ask their doubts and clarify them.

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REVIEW 2

Name of the Movie Screened – India and her Future

Date – 24^th February 2017

Venue- Auditorium

SUMMARY

Sri Aurbindo (1872-1950) is the great light that shone over India for fifty years during the first half of the twentieth century. Sri Aurbindo may truly be called the Sage for the New Age. He worked all his life to bring down from above a New Consciousness that will take hold of the affairs of mankind. He foresaw coming together of the people of the globe. He predicted that Indian spirituality will enter the West in ever large measure. His predictions and mystic visions are coming true. What the Great Rishi willed is being fulfilled. Sri Aurbindo predictions were not based on intellectual analysis but on spiritual vision. He could see into the future with his mystic eye. From age seven onward, Sri Aurbindo was educated in England at St Paul=s School in London and at Kings College, Cambridge. He was a brilliant student of the Classics. He won all the prizes in Latin and Greek. He also wrote poetry at a young age.

After fourteen years stay in England and upon his return to India in 1893, Sri Aurbindo taught English and French literature at Baroda College. He rose to become the vice-Principal of the College.  During this period, he taught himself Sanskrit and Indian languages. He translated portions of the Mahabharata from Sanskrit into English. Sri Aurbindo came to represent the best integration of the scholarship of the East and the West. Soon Sri Aurbindo was drawn to the nationalist anti-British fervour sweeping India at the turn of the century. He was influenced by the writings of Bankim Chandra, Vivekananda, Gokhale and Tilak. He joined the radical wing of the nationalist movement. He edited the revolutionary weekly, Bande Matrim. Sri Aurbindo maintained that the true aim of the nationalist movement was to restore the spiritual greatness of India.

In 1907, he was jailed for a year for his anti-British writings and speeches. This was a period of great transformation for him. In the Alidoro jail, Sri Aurbindo studied

intensively the Bhagavad Gita and the Upanishads. He engaged in deep practices of yoga and meditation. The Divine graced him with a vision of the Supreme Reality. He had a vision of Vasudeva (Krishna) as the author and creator of all that surrounded him. His life was radically changed. Upon release from the Alipore jail, he gave up all political activity. He moved to Pondicherry in South India which was under French administration. There he did intensive Tapasya for many years. An Ashram grew up around him, which now draws devotees from around the globe.

Disobedience (1849)

In a lecture delivered at the Harvard Divinity School in 1844, titled Athe Oversoul, Emerson clearly shows the influence on him of Vedic philosophy. He talked of A Divine Presence at that permeates the whole creation and all living things. Behind the appearances in the universe, there is a Reality of a Being and Consciousness, which is One and Eternal. In Sanskrit this is called ASad Ekam. This One Reality is the Self of all things. God could best be found by looking inward into the core of one’s being, one’s Soul.

CLASS DISCUSSION

Mother India is not a piece of earth; she is a Power, Godhead, for all nations have such a Devi supporting their separate existence and keeping it in being. Such beings are as real as and more permanently real than the men they influence, but they belong to a higher plane, are part of the cosmic consciousness and being and act here on earth by shaping the human consciousness on which they exercise their influence. Each nation is a Shakti or power of the evolving spirit in humanity and lives by the principle which it embodies. India is the Baharat Shakti, the living energy of a great spirit.

The present, however, is a cross-section of the words of Sri Aurbindo and the Mother that have a direct bearing on India's past, present, and, more than anything else, on her incalculably glorious Future — a Future with which is indissolubly bound up the Future of the whole world, of all humanity. The extracts have not been given their dates of publication as they are immortal truths of perennial value, and apply today as they did when they first came out from the Seer-vision of the Mother and the Master.

It matters not if there are hundreds of beings plunged in the densest ignorance. He whom we saw yesterday is on earth. His presence is enough to prove that a day will come when darkness shall be transformed into Light, when Thy reign shall be indeed established upon earth...." The Mother, Sri Aurbindo Ashram, Pondicherry, on her first meeting with

 Sri Aurbindo on 29th March 1914. “Long after this turmoil, this agitation will have ceased... he will be looked upon as the poet of patriotism, as the prophet of nationalism and lover of humanity... his words will be echoed not only in India but across distant.

 Mother India has spirituality and many-sided Greatness. Her conception of life, religion and culture are all-round achievements.