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പ്ലസ്‌ ടു കഴിഞ്ഞു , ഇനി ? ബാച്ചിലര്‍ ഓഫ് ഫൈന്‍ ആര്‍ട്‌സ്
ബാച്ചിലര്‍ ഓഫ് ഫൈന്‍ ആര്‍ട്‌സ്
ചിത്ര, ശില്പകലകളില്‍ താത്പര്യമുള്ളവര്‍ക്ക് ഈ രംഗത്ത് നേടാവുന്ന അക്കാദമിക് യോഗ്യതയാണ് ബാച്ചിലര്‍ ഓഫ് ഫൈന്‍ ആര്‍ട്‌സ്. പ്ലസ്ടുവിന് ശേഷമാണ് അപേക്ഷിക്കേണ്ടത്. പെയിന്റിങ്, അപ്ലൈഡ് ആര്‍ട്ട്, സ്‌കള്‍പ്ചര്‍, കമേഴ്‌സ്യല്‍ ആര്‍ട്ട് തുടങ്ങിയ വിഷയങ്ങളില്‍ സ്‌പെഷലൈസ് ചെയ്യാനുള്ള അവസരവും കിട്ടും. ഇതോടൊപ്പം ആനിമേഷന്‍, മള്‍ട്ടിമീഡിയ, ഗ്രാഫിക്‌സ് മുതലായവയും പഠിച്ചാല്‍ അതിവിശാലമായ തൊഴിലവസരങ്ങളാണ് തുറന്നുകിട്ടുക.
കേരളത്തില്‍ ശ്രീശങ്കരാചാര്യ, കലിക്കറ്റ്, എം.ജി., കേരള സര്‍വകലാശാലകളില്‍ കുറഞ്ഞ ചെലവില്‍ കലാപഠനത്തിനുള്ള സൗകര്യമുണ്ട്. ശ്രീശങ്കരാചാര്യ സംസ്‌കൃത സര്‍വകലാശാലയുടെ കാലടി കേന്ദ്രത്തില്‍ നടത്തുന്ന പെയിന്റിങ് ബി.എഫ്.എ. കോഴ്‌സിന് അഭിരുചി പരീക്ഷയുടെ അടിസ്ഥാനത്തിലാണ് പ്രവേശനം. വിലാസം: Sree Sankaracharya, University of Sanskrit, Kalady (PO), Ernakulam 683 574. Ph: 04842463380.
എം.ജി. യൂണിവേഴ്‌സിറ്റിക്കു കീഴില്‍ തൃപ്പൂണിത്തുറയിലുള്ള ആര്‍.എല്‍.വി. കോളേജ് ഓഫ് മ്യൂസിക് ആന്‍ഡ് ഫൈന്‍ ആര്‍ട്‌സില്‍ ബി.എഫ്.എ. വിഷ്വല്‍ ആര്‍ട്‌സ് (4 വര്‍ഷം), എം.എഫ്.എ. (2 വര്‍ഷം) എന്നീ കോഴ്‌സുകളുണ്ട്. വിലാസം: RLV College of Music and Fine Arts, Thrippunithura, Ernakulam. Ph: 04842779757. ചങ്ങനാശ്ശേരിയിലെ സെന്റ്‌ജോസഫ്‌സ് കോളേജ് ഓഫ് കമ്യൂണിക്കേഷന്‍സില്‍ ബി.എ. മള്‍ട്ടിമീഡിയ, ബി.എ. ആനിമേഷന്‍ ആന്‍ഡ് ഗ്രാഫിക് ഡിസൈന്‍ എന്നിവ പഠിപ്പിക്കുന്നു.
കലിക്കറ്റ് യൂണിവേഴ്‌സിറ്റിക്കു കീഴില്‍ തൃശ്ശൂരിലുള്ള ഗവ. ഫൈന്‍ ആര്‍ട്‌സ് കോളേജില്‍ ബി.എഫ്.എ. കോഴ്‌സ് ചെയ്യാന്‍ സൗകര്യമുണ്ട്. ഫോണ്‍: 0487-2323060. കേരള സര്‍വകലാശാലയിലെ തിരുവനന്തപുരം കോളേജ് ഓഫ് ഫൈന്‍ ആര്‍ട്‌സില്‍ ബി.എഫ്.എ., എം.എഫ്.എ. കോഴ്‌സുകളുണ്ട്. ഫോണ്‍: 2322028. മാവേലിക്കരയിലെ രാജാരവിവര്‍മ കോളേജ് ഓഫ് ഫൈന്‍ ആര്‍ട്‌സിലും ബി.എഫ്.എ. കോഴ്‌സുണ്ട്. ഫോണ്‍: 0479-2341199.
പത്തനംതിട്ട ജില്ലയിലെ ആറന്മുളയില്‍ സാംസ്‌കാരിക വകുപ്പിനു കീഴില്‍ പ്രവര്‍ത്തിക്കുന്ന വാസ്തുവിദ്യാഗുരുകുലത്തില്‍ മ്യൂറല്‍ പെയിന്റിങ് പഠിക്കാം. ഫോണ്‍: 0468-2319740.
വിശ്വഭാരതി: മഹാകവി രവീന്ദ്രനാഥ ടാഗോര്‍ സ്ഥാപിച്ച വിശ്വഭാരതി സര്‍വകലാശാല കലാപഠനത്തിന് ഇന്ത്യയിലെ ഏറ്റവും മികച്ച സ്ഥാപനങ്ങളിലൊന്നാണ്. 3 വര്‍ഷത്തെ ബി.എഫ്.എ. ഓണേഴ്‌സ് കോഴ്‌സും 2 വര്‍ഷത്തെ എം.എഫ്.എ. കോഴ്‌സും ഇവിടെയുണ്ട്. പെയിന്റിങ്, മ്യൂറല്‍, സ്‌കള്‍പ്ചര്‍, ഗ്രാഫിക് ആര്‍ട്ട്, ഡിസൈന്‍, ഹിസ്റ്ററി ഓഫ് ആര്‍ട്ട് എന്നിവയിലാണ് പ്രവേശനം. എസ്.എസ്.എല്‍.സി.യും അഭിരുചിയുമുള്ളവര്‍ക്ക് ഇവിടെ പ്രവേശനം കിട്ടും. കൂടാതെ നിരവധി ഡിപ്ലോമ, സര്‍ട്ടിഫിക്കറ്റ് കോഴ്‌സുകളും ഇവിടെയുണ്ട്.
Friday 7 April 2023
TIRUVALLUVAR- S. Maharajan-Sahitya Akademi publication book introduction
Though Tiruvalluvar lived about 2000 years ago, it does not seem he is dead. He is a contemporaneous presence in the Tamil country, influencing men’s thoughts and urging them to bring their conduct into greater and greater conformity with the high ideals heset before them. None would disagree that he has shaped Tamil literature as no other Tamil has done. He has dominated the intellectual and literary landscape of Tamil Nadu, and never since his time has any man risen to the moral and spiritual height that came to him. There was no one like him before or since. Except, perhaps, Kambar. He came to think, surely, of mankind as including persons who spoke other languages than Tamil. He taught in the same language as Plato or Aristotle, Confucius or Rousseau did in respect of ideas, in respect of conceptions of right and justice.
What did he think of mankind? And what does it matter what he thought of mankind? It matters because therein resides the quintessence for prosperity and peace in the social order, a quest, which still eludes us. If he was right, the rest of us were wrong. Tiruvalluvar’s mind is so extraordinary that we would feel grateful and thrilled to see human life through his eyes. He contemplates the grand spectacle of the phenomenon of Man in its earthly and cosmic contexts and sees it in all its totality in the clear day-light of unclouded faith. He locates whatever makes for disharmony in personal relationships and maps out a detailed code of conduct, which would bring about harmony within the individual and harmony without. He focusses on the emotional reverberations caused by human conduct on every aspect of human relationship, between, say, son and father, husband and wife, citizen and State, and Soul and God. As one visualises the architectonics of the Tirukkural with its 133 Chapters and 1330 Kurals, and as one grasps it whole, one is reminded of Arnold’s description of a Poet:—
Leaned on his gate, he gazes, tears
are in his eyes, and in his ears
the murmur of a thousand years,
before him he sees life unroll,
a placid and continuous whole.
Not only does Valluvar see life unroll as a continuous whole, but also does he see with the eyes of a Seer what impedes the further evolution of Man and how the impediments can be removed. He has eyes that miss nothing, eyes that can twinkle with humour and wit, sarcasm and mischief, eyes which glow with righteous indignation and sparkle with certain and lofty wisdom, eyes which can make men fidget and women blush, eyes which grow misty with tears for the poor and sting the wicked.
Apart from his effort to embrace the human condition in its totality, he communicates his luminous insights in the pure perfection of poetry. He achieves supreme emotional effects, sometimes through drama and sometimes through lyric. He is a cunning technician, who, by prodigious self-restraint and artistic vigilance, super-charges his words with meaning and achieves an incredible terseness and an irreducible density. His commentators have, therefore, to squeeze every word and persuade it to yield its last drop of meaning. The success of each commentator has depended also upon the expertise, which he has brought to bear upon the original Dr. Albert Schweitzer in his book on “Indian Thought and its Development,” appraises the Tirukkural and observes, “There hardly exists in the literature of the world a collection of maxims, in which we find such lofty wisdom”. M. Ariel, the great French Savant, in a letter to Burnouf, published in the Journal Asiatique (November-December 1848) speaks of Tiruvalluvar’s great work as
“a masterpiece of Tamil literature, one of the highest and purest expressions of human thought”. Again, he says:—“That which above all is wonderful in the Kural is the fact that its author addresses himself, without regard to castes, peoples or beliefs, to the whole community of mankind; the fact that he formulates sovereign morality and absolute reason; that he proclaims in their very essence, in their eternal abstractedness, virtue and truth; that he presents, as it were, in one group, the highest laws of domestic and social life; that he is equally perfect in thought, in language and in poetry, in the austere metaphysical contemplation of the great mysteries of the Divine Nature as in the easy and graceful analysis of the tenderest emotions of the heart”. The Italian Jesuit missionary, Fr. Beschi (De. 1742) translated most of the Kurals into Latin, and in his commentary, he compared the Kurals of Tiruvalluvar with the maxims of Seneca. The celebrated Englishman, Dr. G. U.
Pope translated the Kural into English and published the same in 1886. In his introduction to the English translation, Dr. Pope has compared the Tirukkural to Propertius and to Martial and the Latin elegiac verse. In his commentary on the Kural Dr. Pope has quoted analogous passages from authors like Horace, Aeschyles, Dante, Shakespeare, Brownning, Wordsworth, Manu, Burgin and Catullus and adds that what Archbishop Trench said of Saint Augustin is equally true of Tiruvalluvar:—“He abounds in short and memorable, and if I might so call them, epigrammatic sayings, concentrating with a forceful brevity, the whole truth, which he desires to impart, into some single phrase, forging it into a polished shaft at once pointed to pierce, and barbed that it shall not lightly drop from the mind and memory”.
Poetess Avvayar, who is reputed to have been the sister of Tiruvalluvar and who must consequently have watched Valluvar in his songsmithy, says in a Tamil song:—“Valluvar bores an atom, pours the seven seas into its cavity, and cutting the atom, offers its cross-section to us in the shape of the Kural”. * Rightly has Dr. G. U. Pope hailed Tiruvalluvar as the “Bard of Universal Man” and here are the songs in which Dr. Pope celebrates the universality of Tiruvalluvar:
Sunday 2 April 2023
Kane Stuart Williamson ,And his Cricket Life
Williamson made his first-class cricket debut in December 2007. He made his U-19 debut against the touring Indian U-19 team the same year and was named captain of the New Zealand U-19 team for the 2008 U-19 Cricket World Cup. He made his international debut in 2010. Williamson has represented New Zealand at the 2011, 2015 and 2019 editions of the Cricket World Cup and 2012, 2014, 2016 and 2021 editions of the ICC World Twenty20. He made his full-time captaincy debut for New Zealand in the 2016 ICC World Twenty20 in India. He captained New Zealand at the 2019 Cricket World Cup, leading the team to the final and winning the Player of the Tournament award in the process. On 31 December 2020, he reached a Test batting rating of 890, surpassing Steve Smith and Virat Kohli as the number one ranked Test batsmen in the world. He was nominated for the Sir Garfield Sobers Award for ICC Male Cricketer of the Decade, and the award for Test cricketer of the decade. Ian Chappell and Martin Crowe have ranked Williamson among the top four or five Test cricket batsmen, along with Joe Root, Steve Smith, and Virat Kohli of the current era.
Williamson was the only New Zealander to be named in the ICC Test Team of the Decade (2011–2020).The late former New Zealand cricketer, Martin Crowe, noted that, "we're seeing the dawn of probably our greatest ever batsman" in Williamson. In June 2021, he captained New Zealand to win the inaugural ICC World Test Championship, the first ICC trophy the team won since winning the 2000 ICC KnockOut Trophy. In November 2021, he led New Zealand to the final of the ICC T20 World Cup.
Williamson scored 161 not out against West Indies in June 2014, his second century of the series and helped secure a rare away Test series victory for his side. He finished as the leading overall run scorer in the series with 413 runs, and was denied a double century only by rain, which encouraged skipper Brendon McCullum to declare in the interest of obtaining a result in the match. He was also reported for a suspect bowling action in April 2014, but was cleared in December 2014. His illegal bowling action started after he left high school in order to get a faster release and turn on the ball. His new action essentially reverts him to his action in high school, with a more side-on approach and less wrist and elbow deviation. He was also named as captain ahead of the ODI and Twenty20 series against Pakistan as Brendon McCullum was rested.
Williamson scored 100 off 69 balls against Zimbabwe at Bulawayo, which at the time was the second fastest century by a New Zealander in a One-Day International. He also established one of the most potent top-order partnership with Ross Taylor, with Williamson himself being the most prolific number-three batsman for the national side since former captain Stephen Fleming. As a fielder, his position is predominantly at gully.
In 2015, he started with 69 and 242* against Sri Lanka, with two catches in the field in a man-of-the-match performance. On 3 February 2015, he scored the 99th ODI century in the New Zealand's history, against Pakistan; Ross Taylor scored the 100th in the same match. He also scored over 700 runs before the 2015 Cricket World Cup in the first two months of the calendar year. On 17 June 2015 he became the fifth-fastest batsmen and fastest New Zealander to score 3,000 runs, getting them in just 78 innings. On 15 November 2015 Williamson and Taylor became the first pair of away batsmen to each score 2nd innings centuries at WACA Ground in Perth.
In December 2015, during the second Test against Sri Lanka, Williamson broke the record for the most Test runs scored in a calendar year by a New Zealander, with 1172 runs. He also ended 2015 with 2692 runs, the highest total across all forms of international cricket for the year, and third highest total in a single year.
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