Aishvaryam Youth Festival 2018

Maharaja Krishnakumarsinhji Bhavnagar University has celebrated the Aishwaryam youth festival of three days 26th, 27th, and 28th October. This whole festival of three days is hosted by Takshashila institute of commerce and Science college. The whole university was spangling with lights. This festival is for young people. This is not only for watching. This festival let young generation show their talents through various competitions. In which they include every type of talents like writing, singing, dancing, drawing, acting, playing instruments and many things. It includes modern and folk both the theme. I was present in some of the events which here I am trying to look critically towards it.

I have witnessed events like below...

• poetry recitation, 
• clay modeling, 
• collage making, 
• poster making,
• painting, cartooning,
• Rangoli
• installation.

• poetry recitation, 

We have the competition of self-written poetry and recitation. 20 to 25 students have participated in this competition. The subject on which poetry should be written is given on the spot. The subjects are like, the story of a pen, song of rain which does not come, feelings of jungle girl, the significance of friendship or love, life could may life will be an homage and on Diwali. Most of them have written on friendship or love and the story of a pen. On Diwali as per my knowledge, no one has written. With this topics, I have seen that most of them are using old metaphors like for pen they use sword and pen has seen the best of the best things and worst of the worst things. On friendship also almost all of them are praising their friends and some also has written on love. When everyone has recited their poem one of the judges who came to give their overall feelings has recited her one of a poem which was titled as “Shyam Mari Windows Par Kem Na Ave?” and she also has used new metaphors like hang, memory, ram and many more. These new metaphors are missing in the poems. 

• clay modeling, collage making, poster making, painting, cartooning,

Again, on the final day of youth festival, I have attended Exhibition of these all arts. In Rangoli, all Rangoli were traditional but one from my department was mixing of traditional and Digital world. In on the spot painting, there were many paintings related to #Metoo movement and about the digital world. Students drew advantages and disadvantages of the digital world and some painting about traditional classroom and Smart classroom. Collage and Cartooning also very interesting related to a current issue in a satirical tone. I didn't find any modern arts like an art of Dadaism and Surrealism. At last, all arts were conveyed very good messages to society through these arts. The art was very good. Most of the participants have followed only the same themes like making an idol of God, nature or persons who are playing instruments. Some are very nice. In modern themes, one has made a car other than that we can not find any new or modern theme in it.

• Rangoli

There were many Rangoli at the youth festival. Most of them are the typical traditional Rangoli. The one Rangoli which I like most is this Rangoli. In this Rangoli, we can see Nature and technology together. Nature and technology both are an important part of human life. In this Rangoli, both are equally important. Nowadays technology is the most significant part of human life. Facebook, Twitter, Google Plus, WhatsApp, Blogger, YouTube and Google maps make life easy and fast. Within that Nature also very important part of life. So in this two type of things brings together in one Rangoli. It also reflects tradition and modernity in art.

• Installation : 

In this, all are very good work but one which has grabbed my attention is with hat and boots, which suddenly reminds me of the play “Waiting For Godot” by Samuel Beckett. Though it doesn’t have that theme as per my interpretation it wants to show the necessity of money that money is the key of every lock.

 Installation the idea itself the progressive way of giving a message by using useless things. In this, it gives the message of cleanliness, traditional musical instruments, religion and traditional festival celebration like Navratri..etc.