Delhi: Addressing the literary author this morning addressing Sahitya Akadami (National Academy of Letters), Dr. Radhakrishnan gave a strong argument to give freedom in the greatest amount of thinking, meditating and making.
In the absence of Mr. Nehru, the first chairman of the academy, Dr. Radhakrishnan inaugurated the ceremony and spoke clearly about the great creative work being done in the languages of India.
Dr. Radhakrishnan said that the purpose of the academy should identify men of achievement in letters, encourage men of weapons in letters, educate public taste and improve standards of literature and literary criticism.
Maulana Abul Kalam Azad, Education Minister, in his speech, appealed to men of letters to see the highest standards in their respective fields and enable the new Sahitya Academy to “educate public taste and pursue the cause of literature.”
In his address of Welcome, Education Minister, Maulana Azad announced that the Government of India had decided to give the award to encourage the development of creative literature. 5,000 every year for the best work in each of the 14 languages mentioned in the program of the Constitution. The awards will be made on the recommendations of the academy. Every year the work of three previous years will be surveyed and the best work will be an award given to the author of the best work. “The awards will be given for recognized qualification, and no one should apply for them. It is my hope that the first awards will be announced before the end of the calendar year, ”said Maulana Azad.
Autonomous units
Explaining the government’s policy in establishing three academies – one of the letters, one in visual art and one for dance, drama and music, Maulana Azad announced that once they are established, the government would avoid using any control and leave the academies to do its actions as autonomous institutions.
carte blanche
Dr. Radhakrishnan said that if there was creative literature in the country, and literature was not managed, it was necessary that the academy should act as a completely autonomous body. There was a threat to the concept of a welfare state, he said, until he made a clear difference between the mechanics of living and the art of living. “It is necessary that so far thought, meditation and intellectual and spiritual efforts are concerned that human individuals should be left absolutely free. They should be in a position to think according to their own conscience, do, or not, or undo, so they do not interfere with other people as freedom and do not cross the limits of decency. ,
Dr. Radhakrishnan said that no great literature can be produced until men had the courage to get rid of their views and do whatever they had to do with them. “Freedom of the human soul is the first required of any type of creative literature that must be preserved,” he announced.
Dr. Radhakrishnan described the present world as a “thrill, confusion situation and struggles”. So many things allowed people’s minds. They were completely inconsistent and never knew what was right and what was wrong. All this was due to the neglect of the soul in humans. ,
Dr. Radhakrishnan said: “If we are for any contribution to the literature of the world, if this academy is to serve any useful objective, then he will have to re -achieve the spirit of dignity, mission, destin and this ancient caste and try to build a new climate of ideas, which will be formed for a universal republical letters and a world society.”
Earlier, Dr. Radhakrishnan also justified the government’s decision to recognize English, in which literature could also be encouraged as one of those languages. He said that the intellectual renaissance through which he was passing today was due to the influence of Western society and this effect came through the English language. Many writers who were responsible for this Renaissance were responsible for bringing a new orientation of ideas and approaches in the country. Therefore, it was only appropriate that this Akadami should also recognize English as one of the languages.
However, the inclusion of English was welcomed by Sardar KM Panikkar with the amount of reservation. He hoped that this recognition was valid for only the constitutional period of 15 years, by which the English would be displaced by the national language.
Dr. Radhakrishnan said that he was speaking in the regrettable absence of our president, Mr. Nehru, who is essentially a man of letters, but who has deviated into politics due to the terms of our time. ”
Renaissance
“The phrase literature Akadami, he continued,” Jointly combined by two words, one Sanskrit and the other Greek, suggesting the universal aspiration of our enterprise. Literature is a literary creation; The academy is a society of learned people. It is an academy of literary men, who do creative work in literature in different languages of our country. ,
Dr. Radhakrishnan mentioned the location of English at the academy and said that there was no small limit due to the influence of Western culture on Indian society through intellectual renaissance through which India was passing.
“This effect came to us through the English language. Maulana Sahib in the context of men’s writing. Gandhi, Aurobindo Ghosh and Nehru justified the inclusion of English among the languages noted by the academy. ,
“This is the objective of the government,” he said, “Encouraged the academy’s work to take initial steps and encourage adequate financial grants. It is not the responsibility of the government to produce creative work. We are reminded of Napoleon’s comment:” I have heard that we have no poet in France: What is the minister of interior about it? “No government can make a priest?” Can give subsidy.
Creative work
“When we aim of a welfare state and expect the state to provide everything in the interests of our social health and vitality, that the person does not lose freedom to live in his own way of life with his own standards according to his own conscience.”
“The society is becoming more and more revived. The scope for free activity is becoming increasingly banned. We are all counted and doc. We are becoming anonymous units in a crowd, not a free subject in a society. The individual wants the shelter of the crowd to the crowd with responsibility for safety, for rest, for relief from loneliness. When our activities are regulated, fantasies that relax in solitude cannot thrive. ,
Classics study
Our words ‘literature,’ Dr. Radhakrishnan said, “Classics of religion and philosophy should be included, even Greek literature includes the history of Plato’s dialogues and Theceidides. Literature has been one of our major contributions in the world. Our eyes, our plays, our stories, our stories, our stories and folk knowledge transmits us the great ideals of nature and mind. In the middle of the world, the only drama of quality in the world, the Indian drama was not only a drama. Of Russia.
Historical opportunity
Sardar KM Panikar, a member of the State Reorganization Commission and a scholar in Malayalam, said: “This is, in fact, a historical day when we have collected representatives of the languages of India here for the first time, who have contributed to modern -day creative writing, thoughts and literature. It is not that we did not have academies. We have many academies, but we have the first time to represent all the languages of India. There is an academy, which represents creative writing in every part of India.
Mr. Panikkar said that Sahitya Akadmi would not be able to play its role properly if the regional academy was not established in various states. The academy of provincial literature should be brought into existence.
Maulana Azad and Dr. Referring to Radhakrishnan’s views that Indians who had attained literary qualifications through English should be given to Sahitya Akadmi. Mr. Panikkar said that it should not be “this for all time, not a permanent feature of the academy. English was a foreign language and can be a writer desirous of writing in English for the world audience, so he says 50 years, but he should not be entitled to become a member of the academy on that score.”
