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Kerala is connected a transformative travel towards the imaginativeness of Nava Keralam (new Kerala) and it is indispensable that everyone articulation the mission, Revenue Minister K. Rajan has said.
He was inaugurating the Vision 2031 Cultural Seminar organised by the Department of Culture astatine the Kerala Sangeetha Nataka Akademi present connected Monday.
“Kerala has emerged from a acheronian past marked by untouchability, discrimination, and societal evils. The State is built connected the foundations of a almighty renaissance question that championed societal justice, led by reformers specified arsenic Sree Narayana Guru and galore others,” the Minister said.
He recalled that Kerala’s renaissance was profoundly rooted successful education, literature, theatre, and question writing, each of which strengthened the Malayali’s societal consciousness. However, helium warned that today, Kerala’s values of secularism and humanity faced threats from communal and fascist tendencies that attempted to infiltrate into taste spaces.
Higher Education Minister R. Bindu, delivering the keynote address, said past was not conscionable thing to beryllium written successful books but a occurrence to beryllium passed down from 1 procreation to the next. “As divisive forces effort to sow seeds of hatred and intolerance successful Kerala’s harmonious society, artists and writers should basal successful the beforehand enactment to support the ideals of unity, fraternity, and friendship,” she said.
Cultural Affairs Minister Saji Cherian, presenting the argumentation declaration, emphasised the request for a implicit modernisation of the administrative operation of the Cultural department. He said the authorities aimed astatine coordinating the functioning of the assorted academies nether the section portion preserving their autonomy.
“The extremity is to framework a imaginativeness nether the banner of a Global Indian Cultural Congress. We program to alteration Kerala Kalamandalam into a existent assemblage of each creation forms, instrumentality the ideals of spiritual harmony and humanity to each home, and make treatment platforms successful each panchayat involving students and Diamond Jubilee fellowship holders,” Mr. Cherian said.
The seminar was portion of the Statewide discussions organised by the section to envision the State’s advancement arsenic it marks 75 years of formation.
Sessions connected ‘Secularism, Humanism, and Cultural Diversity’ and ‘Kerala Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow – From Renaissance to Nava Keralam: The Contribution of People’s Governments’ were organised. Distinguished personalities from political, social, and taste spheres attended the event, which concluded with a creation show titled Ente Keralam by the students of Kerala Kalamandalam.
