Citing examples of the youth of today, Governor of Goa Mridula Sinha on Monday said that however, modern the youth of today are, they still have the culture of India alive in them and are more aware than the children of the 1980s and 1990s.
Sinha was speaking at a function hosted by the Makhanlal Chaturvedi National University of Journalism and Communication where the topic of discussion was Role of History and Media in the Intellectual Growth of the Nation.
According to Sinha, when one talks of intellectual growth, it doesn’t mean that it should in turn amount to economic growth. “Intellectual growth of a country means that the people of the country are aware of what’s happening in the world around them. They understand the situation in the country. And when more people begin to understand, more is the intellectual growth of the country,” she said, adding this year’s general elections were a mirror to the intellectual growth in our country. “This time people didn’t vote based on others’ opinions but actually formed their own opinion based on their own understanding.
It was a clear show of the fact that our youth and particularly our women, who earlier were never too involved in general affairs, came out and expressed their own opinions,” she elaborated.
Sinha also used the example of Goa to state how media and literature have helped keep the past culture alive in the state. “Goa has a reputation of a place where people only go for enjoyment. But for the people living there, the culture is alive. There are so many newspapers in Goa and they are either in Marathi or Konkani. Plus they always carry relevant stories related to the culture. People read that and then dig into the history. Through this, most people living in Goa know about their land’s history and are proud of it,” she said. Other people present at the seminar were Dr Kamal Kishore Goenka and Prof Brij Kishore Kuthiala.