Teachers should impart value-based education: Umarye

BICHOLIM:  Recipient of state teacher award Kalidas Umarye said that it is the responsibility of teachers to impart value-based education to the students and mould them into model citizens.
Umarye was addressing students at government primary school hall, Bicholim after inaugurating the patriotic song workshop. Headmaster Madhukar Sasolkar, and staff were present on the occasion.
Resource personalities taught the students how to present patriotic songs. 300 students participated in the workshop.

Maitreyi Bandekar, Sanjana Patkar,  Santoshi Halarnakar,  Komudi Bandekar,  Shrisha Parab, Aditi Mandrekar,  Yogada Bandekar,  Niraja Gaonkar,  Vedhas Umarye,  Parth Umarye,  Aaditya Umarye, Rishita Kubal,  Tanmay Chari, Arpita Singh, Pratiksha Khedekar, Saloni Chodankar and Avishka Jadhav presented patriotic songs.

School teachers Rajani Deo, Prabodhini Prabhu, Deepali Naik, Smital Shirodkar, Shyamal Sawant, Parinita Kavthankar and Geeta Navelkar were also present for the workshop. Sasolkar welcomed the guests and the students. Later Deepali Naik proposed the vote of thanks.

The eighties and the nineties

The emergence of Solidarity (1980) - the only independent trade union in the Communist bloc - and the years of martial law imposed by the Communist authorities, coincided with the tide of post-modernism sweeping over the whole of Western - and that included Polish - culture. And yet the political turning point of 1989, which brought with it the bloodless removal of the Communists and a change to a democratic system with the birth of the Third Republic, in contrast to previous tradition, though it produced certain changes in attitude of the artists did not have much influence on the nature of their art. As the Berlin wall fell and eastern Europe was liberated from the thrall of Communism - in which a key element had been the ten-year long resistance shown by Solidarity - so Polish art, though continuously and independently participating in the shaping of this Polish consciousness of the eighties seemed to stop taking an active interest in the development of political affairs. This is one of the main facets of Polish art in the nineties - which is also dominated by more experienced artists, at the least those of the middle generation whose debuts came in the eighties and whose work is deeply rooted in the traditions of the avant-garde and the neo-avant-garde.