A LAB JOURNAL OF THE PG STUDENTS OF JOURNALISM AND MASS COMMUNICATION Rs. 5/- VOLUME - 10 ; ISSUE - 3 ST ALOYSIUS COLLEGE (AUTONOMOUS) OCTOBER 2019 Mangalore dasara: devotees Radio Sarang celebrates national award with throng Kudroli temple Jeslin visually impaired listeners Aswathy, Arjun cook was not of that quality. CAMPUS: Radio Sarang 107.8 After listening to Sarang, I get at SAC organised a special pro- to know that my cereals are gramme on September 29 to cel- cooked to perfection as it helps me ebrate the national award it had in keeping a watch on the time.” won for ‘Antar Belaku’, a pro- The couple also added that they gramme about blind people. marked their timing of daily rou - Many who were part of the pro- tine according to the programmes gramme and other such listeners that they listened on Sarang. came to attend the programme Another blind listener, Daniel along with their care takers. D’Souza, said: “Radio Sarang has The chief guests of the pro- motivated us instead of showing gramme were prominent televi- sympathy like others do.” The streets mear Kudroli Gokarnanatha temple were illuminated colourfully for the festival. sion anchor, orator and teacher While addressing the gathering Jeslin Dasara 2019. festival, homas, special poojas and Bhaskar Rai Kukuvalli and Tulu Prof. Rai said, “Radio Sarang has achieved mammoth of a task by MANGALORE : Bright colourful As part of the ‘Dasara Navasiri bhajans are conducted. The last scholar Dr Ganesh Amin Sanka- reaching out to the hearts of com - lights all the way from across the Kala Sambrama-2019’, the temple two days there will be goddess mar. Rector of SAC Fr Dionysius moners. street till the temple, thousands of has organised evening events such Sharada shobhayatre where the Vas SJ, director of Radio Sarang devotees gathering to be part of as hula hoop dance, kathak and idol of goddess Sharada will be Dr Melwyn Pinto SJ, Radio It is the only radio which has the poojas and bhajans and the im - bharatanatyam, bhaktirasaman - taken in a procession passing Sarang staff and other guests encouraged and opened the doors peccably decorated idol of god - jari, nagehaniyajadoovismaya, through several parts of the city were present. for public.” desses Sharada and Navadurga yakshagana, dance form of shree such as Lalbagh, Ladyhill, K S A passionate listener of Sarang, He also acknowledged the ef - idols have transformed the night Krishna leele, kolaluvadana, suga - Rao Road, Hampankatta and back Ramaswamy M K, said: “I have fort of the Sarang team and the into an ethereal bliss in celebra - masangeeta along with few other to Kudroli. been listening to Radio Sarang College administration for win - tions of Navaratri Utsav at Shree songs and dance performances by “I have been a regular visitor to since 2013 and it has motivated ning the national award for the Gokarnanatha temple, Kudroli. well-known professionals. the temple. One of the many rea - me a lot to overcome my disabil- programme in the most The season of festival started on ity and I am so happy to hear that “I have been coming to this sons for me visiting the temple creative/innovative category. September 29 with ‘Mahanavami Harshita temple since my childhood days, would be because of the beauti - Utsav’ and ‘Nava Durga and as I was born in Kudroli itself. fully designed architecture, espe - Sharada Pratistapana’, and will Those days there was only Lord cially the golden paintings. I also end on October 9 with ‘goddess Eeshwara’s shrine, but now the like the evening atmosphere Sharada visarjane’. temple looks more beautiful after where one can get a feeling of re - “This dasara, we put up light - the establishment of other shrines laxation. ings upto 10kms. There is a spe - like that of Lord Hanuman and Sai cial Shiva pooja where women, The different idols of gods that Baba. As all the shrines are here, are placed here are all unique and especially widows, can be a part one doesn’t have to go from place of. We also serve lunch to every - each has some divinity. Many to place to pay their respects dur - temples have divinity; yet the one, irrespective of their caste or ing Navaratri. I am a firm believer creed. As part of goddess Sharada aura, the environment and climate of Lord Eeshwara and always wait of the Kudroli temple are always shobhayatre, we have over 25 for dasara to take part in the floats leaving from our temple on memorable to visit during dasara,” Lord’s poojas and bhajans,” said said Subrhmonya GS., another October 8,” said Mohan Shetty, Vimala, a devotee from Kudroli. one of the organisers of Kudroli devotee from Mangalore. During the first nine days of the Human rights activist talks on Fourteen visually impaired radio listeners were preesent. ‘India at its tipping point’ Sarang has won a national award All the gathered blind listeners for this programme.” Anjana, Aswathy of Social Work, Roshini Nilaya. are still writing something.” were gifted with a token of love Fr Prakash started the session by “Tipping point is when some - Another blind couple Shiv- and were felicitated for their im - MANGALORE: Well known giving various explanations for body says there should be one lan - ananjaiah and Pushpavathi from mense support to Radio Sarang. human rights activist Fr Cedrick the term ‘tipping point’. guage in India and that should be Madikeri, said that their daily Radio Sarang has over 2.5 lakh Prakash said that India is at its tip - “Tipping point is the point Hindi,” he added. routine is fixed according to listeners all over Dakshina Kn - ping point and the present political where everything collapses. During the programme, there Sarang programmes. nada, Kasaragod, Mangalore and system is trying to change the his - It is when people take law and was an interactive session with the Pushpavathi said that after lis- Udupi. It helps in bringing various tory of India. order in their hands. This is what audience. In the concluding part, tening to Radio Sarang she had communities together and it also He was speaking on the topic happened to Gauri Lankesh,” Fr Fr Prakash urged citizens to save not only become a fan of its pro- addresses the environmental and ‘India at its tipping point’ at Cedrick said. the nation to get out of the tipping grammes. health issues especially of women Roshini Nilaya on October 14. He also added that “nowadays point. Students from St Aloysius It had also helped her to main- and children. Since its inception in The talk was organized by the Cit - the media is not allowed to write College, along with students from tain time accordingly.She said, 2009, Radio Sarang has won three izen Forum for Mangalore Devel - what they want to say. Fortu - Roshini Nilaya and other institu - “Before, due to wrong judgement national awards for various pro - opment in association with School nately, some editorials and op-eds tions too partcipate. of timing, the food that I used to grammes. 2 REPORTS OCTOBER 2019 Students offer helping hand to Suicide awareness flood victims at Belthangady programme at SAC brings Shalini The students were given in - together like-minded groups structions and precautions as to Aswathy, Anjana He also acknowledged the ini - how they should work efficiently. tiative taken by the respective or - They were given food and special MANGALORE: On account of ganisers for creating awareness accommodation in the schools suicide awareness and prevention about suicide among people. nearby. They also had the oppor - month, an awareness programme tunity to meet the rehabilitants at was conducted on October 6 by There was prize distribution for the relief camps. Centre for Community Mental the winners of poster making They had food with them while Health in association with other competition held in different ed - they listened to the heart-wrench - organisations. ucational institutions as part of ing stories of the flood victims. this awareness programme. In addition, as part of the pro - "The floods made us realise the gramme, a walkathon and a bicy - “This suicide helpline helps a true value of togetherness, human - cle rally were also held by Susheg lot of people and creates aware - ity, love and sharing," said Jyothi, Lifeline, a 24x7 suicide preven - ness among people in this area. It Students engaged in cleaning process at Belthangady. One of the inhabitants in the tion helpline and Mangalore Bi - has also motivated people to help relief camp. It took almost two cycle Club (MBC) respectively. others from the thought of com - Arya, Shalini were washed off due to the heavy days for the students to remove Roshan rainfall. They could only travel on the dirt and waste from the houses The walkathon started from St BELTHANGADY : A group of foot and in certain places by small in that locality. Agnes College, Bendore at 7 a.m. 30 students and two staff mem - jeeps. There were many marks left "This visit made us experience and ended at St Aloysius College bers of SAC visited the flood af - by the rising water on the walls real struggles of people in society at 7.45 a.m. and such other still standing struc - fected areas of Belthangady on and also helped us to offer them a About 40 members of MBC tures. Trees and other debris August 15 and 16. helping hand," said Harshitha, a participated in the cycle rally blocked the path in most places. The students took this as an op - student of SAC. which started from Indian Med - Other organisations were seen dis - portunity to serve people whose “SAC has always been sensi - ical Association House.