SUBMITTED BY- STEPHEN
M.J ONLINE MEDIA
DEPARTMENT OF JOURNALISM AND COMMUNICATION
UNIVERSITY OF MADRAS.
Kalvarayan hills connects 4 districts of tamilnadu such as
salem, villupuram, thiruvannamalai and dharamapuri and have more than 170
tribal villages around the hill station. My part of study was taken through
salem zone, where the hill station like keelnadu and maelnadu, both of them
have 18 villages each under them in record and there are also too many small
hamlets not recognized till now. keelnadu receives better governmental plans
and free facilities but where as
maelnadu suffers to receive every governmental plans due to adventoures
hill forms says the government. but people here confirm that authorities
are least bother and lethargic about the
people in concern.
1. They lack basics to know about their
constitutional rights and governmental
benifits.
2. They are unaware of governmental authorities
and have no idea about present ministers in charge for state or general. It is
interesting that, they are able to remember local leadrs such as chairman and
collector in mind, though most of them have no idea about the party system and
their leader in mind. (Still they have a mixed kind of confusion between
karunanithi and jayalalitha.)
3. Media has just began in those areas through
the distribution of colour television by the government and people have began
to understand the new medium to entertain themselves and we can surly hope that
they will also start to show their viewership for news as well .So we can’t
conclude media doesn’t play its role nor has a huge impact among people of
kalvarayan hills but getting its root effectivly.
4. People who have T.V sets watch mostly a
serial called “URAVUKU KAI KODUPOMM”(உறவுக்கு கை கொடுப்போம்) which is an episodic drama played in
kalainyar channel. This particular serial has a good number of
viewership.
5. I found an interesting thing that most of
them are not aware of politicians name and even the actors name especially like
Rajinikanth, Vaiko and Sivaji.
Students and youngsters in the village are powerful fans of Vijay, rather
than Rajini, and Kamal. The reason could be, they had received power only
10years back and in some villages 20years back. when i followed them by group
discussion, they had varieties of answers to of their media understaing. At the
end o f the discussion we have found that 90percentage of people enjoy and
entertain themselves through free color television sets. 45percentage of
people have satellite dish to watch newly upgraded programmes but they are
least bothered to know about current news update and the other 45 percentage of people have television sets
along with DVD players, where they only listen songs and movies. The rest of 10
percentage don’t use televisions sets and there
might be at risk for television connection due to higher hill station
As far as Radio and newspapers concerned the amount of listeners and
readers are lacking due to geographical reach, since those villages are located
in a relatively mountain hill areas. Newspapers are available only when you
come down to Kallakurichi town, where it has number of shops and commercial
space to sale out vegetables in markets.
We visited three villages namely, (Perandur, Morasapatti, and kanakanpatti)
these three villagers commonly face similar problems and Karakanpatti is
somewhat ok in term of conservative development, because it has got a primary
school, which was built during 2000 and funded by the salem diocese. There is a
house for st.Ann’s sisters who even take up the management of school, therefore
students receive a quality education. There is a bus facility twice in a day
morning 5am and evening 3pm so comparing to other village’s kanakanpatti has
reached some extent of cleanliness and betterment. But perandur and mannur have
no such facilities but they have to walk so much daily to meet their needs.
Their complains follows such as,
1. No proper road facilities to walk safe.
2. No proper conservative (RO) water facilities,
as a fact they walk few miles to fetch water for their every needs.
3. No proper “ration” facilities.
People in these villages have made an appeal that during election
campaigning instead of representatives, in the name of name representatives
someone could come and ask us to vote, but we are not aware the parties name
and all their history, since they promise a lot on our needs, so we poll our
vote in a symbol, which they had shown us. It is to note that no collectors,
chairman and media persons have made a visit to our village. This is the fact
that they say stand on, One of the other observation is that since they are
illiterate, there are mediators who often culprits in their place cheat their
actual amount of money that is to be paid even the government fund too will be
swollen by the governmental mediators, which is being sanctioned to meet their
needs in their village.
CULTURAL, ECONOMICAL, EMPLOYMENT AND CAST DIFFERENCE:
1. Every culture in India means and differs a
lot to fit the meaning of its richness. Culturally, they enjoy, “MARRIYAMMAN”
festival, which happens during “Pongal”. Here they spend lot amount of money to
buy new clothes, inviting relatives and friends from neighboring villages to
gathered together to celebrate their joy of hard work.
2. Economically, they are poor, because they put
forth, the fullest effort of hard work in agriculture especially in forming and
cultivating, since they are illiterate, many contractors who buy their crops or
give daily wages for their work would cheat them easily.
3. Major vegetations on their fields are paddy,
tamarind, wheat, cotton and ragi. Villagers are aware that agriculture has good
scope in coming years since government depends on various agricultural forming.
4. When I asked a guy in a village, he said that
they never had such issues, it shows that they belong to same community
categorized (ST)
· . They find job opportunities in their
neighboring villages just working for daily wages as coolly workers, if not
then they go to Kerala for road cleaning works or to work in their fields. As
far now there are three people who had received government jobs as a postman in
perandur village, but unfortunately other villages haven't so,
especially to figure out mannur and kalakaampatti.
NATURE OF EXPRESSION WHILE TALKING:
They are casual in expressing their problems stating a tone like, “This is
part of our life”, “no one is noticing us”, and these are the words that we
could find while talking with them. One of the interesting observations which
made me to salute is that the hospitality nature which we lack often in our
modern culture, since hospitality is one of the humanly nature of all time
history in the era, but that had been made true for my knowledge instead there
I had seen their heartwarming smile and nature of hospitality without knowing
who are we?. It is to believe that they started talking to us more relevantly
and friendly.
· Mostly girls who reach 13 gets married as the
fact, they suffer a lot in managing their daily life bearing child and doing
house hold works.
· Boys in perandur and mannur have never
crossed +2 std. most of the young boys and girls stop continuing their studies
due to work load given by parents to work on their fields rather sending them
into school. This particular problem extends and continues due to the rare
facilities of travelling, funding the child to study, hostile and
cultural indifference.
· Most of their expression seems to be real in
nature rather than an act of drama. These groups of people find to be related
to the historical witness rather than a script approach.
· Differences between speech and people in
comparing their relationships are casual, real and especially to witness
“animal gods” which represents their cultural respect, which states that
scheduled trips is not so much affected of media and its approach in concerned
research of mine because of their lifestyle and nature, which is different in
atmosphere and ethnic geographical location, So it may take few more years to
get reached the current affairs as an important one, if parents promote
education as essential one.
CONCLUSION
Learning never stops unless you die, the reasons are the same. You
may get lose yourself, knowing what an encounter, but as the later you realize
the reason and get better yourself to face it. This could be the applicable one
for kalvarayan trips too. If not today, the days are near for them when media
could turn up their life in accommodating new life style sooner in influencing
innovative advantages where in the modern society.
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