According to the definition and meaning of Felicity given by Dr.Marathe, the fest is about celebration, but in a much wider sense. Of course the celebration is about our own achievements. Its about the appreciation of freedom and enjoyment of privileges given to us, but at the same time, we should also think about them. Aren’t the others much less privileged. Receiving the best education, are we not the future leaders of the country? And being so, isn’t it our duty to give back something to the society? Should we not put in a little effort to making this place a better one than we found it? We believe that only by doing so, we’d have achieved celebration in the true sense.
It was agreed upon that whatever we do, should be a heart felt action, and not doing something just for the heck of it. We are NOT looking for publicity, what we are looking to is making a difference to the society.
The ideas for the same during the meeting were:
1) Gram Seva: Service to the villagers. We can take up some form of vocational education for the youngsters of a particular village and try to make the youth ready for some kind of a job. Every week, 3-4 students can go to the village and undertake the teaching work. In all, we can teach them for 18 weeks. Shikha said that we can help them in irrigaional methods etc. Chand suggested that instead of villages, we could take up a slum for a start, as pushing on to villages right at the start maybe a little too ambitious. This should cost the treasury around 50000 bucks.
2) According to Aniket, we should take up some form of art revival. Arts like puppet shows, or classical dance forms. The same can be given encouragement and asked to perform on the first day of Felicity, on stage.
3) We can also take up the revival of Yoga/Vedas by teaching and spreading.
4) Chand said that we could take up the revival of handicrafts like in Shilparaman.
5) We could take up the improvement of lives of say, 10 prisoners. Bereft of love, these prisoners do not have much of a chance of remorse. We will give them love, and education over a period of time.
6) Similarly, we can catch 10 people affected by natural tragedies and improve their lives.
7) It was agreed upon the fact that we need more ideas. These ideas should be thought over by everyone and discussed with Dr. Sangal, Dr. Mitra and Dr. Harjinder.
-Karan
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I think it is better if we associate ourselves with a NGO or a social entrepreneur group which is already active in the above mentioned areas such as with regard to teaching of the destitute. For this we can invite some Social Entrepreneurs during the fest for a Talk where we can get some guidance for achieving the said goals.