Our Correspondent
Kohima | February 3
Minister for urban development & higher education Dr Shürhozelie Liezietsu who is also president of Ura Academy, Kohima said that the people are looking at literature beyond entertainment or delight because literature deals with the realm of human knowledge and its multi-functional application, that is, from worldly life to spiritual life, from realistic life to imaginary life, from deepest of human love to bitterest hatred, from deepest sorrow to any such measure of life.
Speaking at the special annual session of Asam Sahitya Sabha at Tinsukia, Assam today, the minister said the primary urge of human creative mind for literature is a desire to know about one another - the past, present and the future; our desire for expression; our desire for literary form.
The combination of such impulses is generally to bridge human understanding, he said.
He said that a literacy artist normally stationed himself/herself at a centre of the two polar, probably to balance the temperament meant for better expression. The product of a literary piece or book may be the product of an individual, yet in its right earnest, it deals, interprets and speculates with the life of the society and the nation or the whole world and that becomes the literature of the nation in the larger context, he said. All such categorizations are labeled on the basis of a particular society at a particular period, the fact that the world is showing its continuous changes as reflected in history.
Literature of a language does not emerge out of magical conjecture, he said while maintaining but it lives in human mind, it drives human desire in the form of an inner force to share, to create and to record human wisdom, and to some one to delight and educate, to motivate for further creation by way of artistic form. In the process, its creation either subjectively or objectively, implies philosophical touch for reference to the study of other branches of social sciences, humanities and sciences. In other words, he said any branch of study can be said to be emerged out of literature. No matter, how simple or complex its form is, yet it deals with human nature and implications in all sphere of life thematically, he said.
Dr. Liezietsu said that in order to refer to our present context, we will naturally claim that we belong to one or the other language community in which our respective literature remains an asset. Because of that understanding, he said, we do love our literature just as we love our society. “I would rather say in this auspicious occasion that because of our loving attitude towards literature, we are gathering here to share our joy and happiness on the continuity of Assamese literature and till this date the Asam Sahitya Sabha has been faithful in preserving and promoting for the cause of human interest,” he said.
Maintaining that English is the most dependable language to the people in the world scenario as people take the advantage of using it as the medium of learning and major source of knowledge. He however said that virtually, the knowledge of English, including its application contains only a small part of our personal being. He justified that our identity is one of the most important label with which we claim to belong to a family, a village, an ethnic group, a professional group etc. Such layers of personal qualifications are determined by the language to which we originally belong, he said adding that therefore, despite the day to day usage of English language, we are personally identified and recognized as one of the ingredients in this ocean of humanity.
Further stating that the today’s world has become more and more complex, while the political society has come to an age of controversy with people fighting for their right, people suppressing each other for their right, there is no victor but yield innocent victims, Dr. Liezietsu said that literary fraternity can best attempt to solve such chronic human problems in the right perspective. He aspired that the establishment of brotherhood between Ura Academy and Asam Sahitya Sabha can have an everlasting impact on the literary institution and people of both sides. “Ura Academy considers your sincere gesture a memorable step towards building up of mutual and closer relationship of the people in general and the literary fraternity in particular,” asserted.
Dr. Shürhozelie was accompanied by Head of Tenyidie Department, Nagaland University Dr. D. Kuolie, Director World Linguistic Kohima Dr. Kelhoulezo, President Sahitya Sabha, Kohima Prahlad Somlal, President Sahitya Sabha Dimapur Ramtacal and PS to minister Neiketouzo.
