Maithili Thakur and her musical performance in the TV contest

We had been watching a TV musical contest. One uniqueness of the contest was that it had allowed both classical and semi classical musical contestants to perform the preparations. Our interest slowly got momentum as the fusion of these two forms along with the Punjabi, Sufi or some other forms of musical presentations were put together and offered for the individual contestant's performance to be adjudged by the masses. This was a truly appreciable offer but it was a very difficult thing for the common people to classify and mark an individual's position among the contestants. Even for the three experts who had reared the talent of the performers. One of the contestants namely Maithili Thakur had been excelling all through till the final day of the contest. She lost her position then only defeated by a Punjabi singer, Bennet. Here we felt that despite a better classical presentation by Maithili Thakur on that day she had to lag behind by one point only. We feel that she has already been earmarked by great musical composers and her talent would be harnessed increasingly in future.

Social Customs and New Technology

The neighbourhood impacts our life and thought a lot. With its upliftment every individual becomes merrier and the vice versa. Urbanisation and industrialisation have rapidly soaked the better elements of our communities to shift from the countryside in such a haphazard manner which niether fulfill to shape our urban locations properly nor spare the rural areas to remain usually closely-knit as it had always been in the past. In Mithila the age-old panji-system for the sake of arranged marriages, sacred thread-bearing ceremony also known as Upnain sanskar and similar other family/social ceremonies are being arduous for those who adhere to their traditions. The modern analysts believe that these measures must break old traditions since which they strongly term to be mere wastage and societal sins. Contrarily, development, modernity and efforts to stick to old traditions and age-old ceremonies may be witnessed not only in our but even in the various so-called western civilizations. In UK we find so much propaganda over its royal wedding in the age-old tradition. President Trump in the US invited scholars and priests of different faith during oath-taking ceremony. Our PM Modiji always chooses to offer prayers in temples with detailed rituals. Under these conditions technique and knowledge to operate modern systems of communication need to support the immediate demand to maintain and improve such traditional activities and restore the feeling of age old closeness among people which once used to be our close circle.

The Infectious Circle

Loneliness and fatalism have an impact on us in spite of hectic efforts to keep afresh in day to day life. This may arise mainly due to our unlimited wants vis-a-vis very limited resources. Human nature never allows to feel satisfied if a given target is attained because no sooner we attain a certain goal we grab a new desire and start running after its fulfillment. This is like a rat race which has a price in terms of our internal restlessness. This is thus an infectious circle which so often we face. Various principles of economic studies always point out these features of human behaviour but no immediate solution has yet evolved except to control one's own mind. In fact this flow of wants constitute not only of material wants but also covers a bunch of non-material ambitions and expectations.