KPCC turns 100, plans year-long centenary celebrations - Mathrubhumi English
KPCC turns 100, plans year-long centenary celebrations - Mathrubhumi English |
| KPCC turns 100, plans year-long centenary celebrations - Mathrubhumi English Posted: 30 Jan 2021 02:35 AM PST  Thiruvananthapuram: The Kerala Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC) turned 100 on Saturday. It has chalked out elaborate programmes for the one-year centenary celebrations of the grand old party. It was on January 30, 1921 that the Kerala Congress unit was formed as the Kerala Provincial Congress Committee after the Indian National Congress (INC) decided to form state level committees on linguistic basis. The All India Congress Committee (AICC) meeting held at Nagpur in December 1920 had decided to form state level Congress committees on linguistic lines. There were Malabar, Kochi and Travancore Congress committees and all of them spoke the Malayalam language. Interestingly, a unified Kerala state was formed on November 1, 1957 and the KPCC was formed 36 years before this. A practicing advocate from Manjeri in Malabar, K Madhavan Nair, was the first KPCC Secretary. The KPCC headquarters was first located at Kozhikode, then Kochi and is currently at Thiruvananthapuram. The first full-fledged KPCC meeting was held at Ottapalam in April 1921 and it was here that the call for a unified Kerala was given. Andhra Pradesh's T. Prakasam presided over the meeting in which 5,000 people from all parts of the state participated. The editor of an independent newspaper George Joseph presided at the youth meet. Syed Muthu Sahib presided at the Khilafat meet held as part of the meeting. District Congress Committees were formed in Thalassery, Kozhikode, Palakkad, Kochi, Travancore In 1924, the KPCC decided to appoint a President and K. Madhavan Nair was unanimously elected to the post. KPCC President Mullappally Ramachandran told IANS that the party would conduct "padyatras" at 1,504 centres in Kerala with 100 workers in each yatra. Mullappally while speaking to IANS said, "The legacy of Indian National Congress is clear and it is formed by sacrifices of prominent people from all walks of life along with ordinary workers and people. In the past 100 years, Kerala Pradesh Congress Committee has been striving to unite the state without any caste, creed or religious divisions and that is indeed the strength of Congress party. This is a period of politics of division and new generation of Congress leaders have the responsibility to move ahead by uniting people." IANS |
| Posted: 12 Aug 2020 12:00 AM PDT  One of the newspapers Blame it as much as you want, but your life will be completely different without print media. Well, maybe not a lot for millennials and Gen Z folks, but the generations before that certainly waited for the newspaper in the wee hours of the day to know what happened around them and around the world, the previous day. In fact, this is how the day began for most of them. However, the grey lady and her companions aren't even that old. They did not exist to tell us what happened during the first battle of Panipat. A lot of our great grandparents did not get to read newspapers that spoke to them about the revolt of 1857 or when social reformer Sree Narayana Guru, who belongs to a lower caste consecrated the Shiva idol, which usually only upper castes did. But a professor and a few of his students from Kozhikode's Malabar Christian College have now come up with a project called 'imaginary newspapers' where they have reimagined and created newspapers that would have existed in older days.
"This was a lockdown project that I undertook along with my bachelor's and master's students," says MC Vasisht, a history professor. "This was an interesting way to get them to learn the history and give them a hands-on training in journalism. The idea hit me during the lockdown. Bachelor's students were done with their viva and this seemed like an interesting way to divert their energy in a creative way," he says. while the idea was originally Vashist's, he tells us that the students did all the writing, editing and design. As a historian, he only selected the topics and obviously took care of fact-checking, ensuring that only accurate facts were presented. Each newspaper has a different name. While three of them are in English, seven are in Malayalam. An imaginary English newspaper that goes by the name 'Tanjore Times' has its first page dedicated to the death of Chola king Rajaraja Chola. 'Shockwave grips Cholamandalam; Chola Samrat Rajaraja is no more' reads the lead story's headline. There are snippets that talk about people mourning, his past where he crossed the seas and a possible shift of capital. The front page also has an imaginary advertisement for Tanjore Jewellery, which is apparently popular for silver anklets. Another Malayalam newspaper called 'Wayanadan Patrika' talks about the death of Kerala Varma, who was the king of the Pazhassi kingdom during the late 18th century. It also touches about how this has helped the British East India Company to gain more control over Northern Kerala. Along with this, the students have also created video documentaries on the same topics. |
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