How to make Anchoring...

Dear students,

I would like to suggest you how to make the role of anchoring and how easy it is after all.

As a potential student of Engineering you should also know how to play the role of anchoring. If you are able to take up anchoring in any function like freshers day or seniors day or during the time of any college cultural party, you will certainly enhance very good communication skills. A good Communication skill in English is very essential now to get a good job. So have this brief method to make the role of anchoring.

At first:

--> (say) I Welcome to the auspicious occasion of today's fresher’s day party(or any other)to all of you...

-->Next- I feel it my honor to perform the role of anchoring before all of you (or) I feel so happy to share this pleasurable time with all of you...

-->Next- In this joyful occasion we will have a lot of fun & entertainment. Before that we will have the greetings & messages of our Honorable Principal, H.O.D.& our distinguished staff. Let's make it a great time for all of us. Shall we? (students say yes)

-->Next- Invite all the guests to the dais like this:-

* (say) Now let me invite all the guests of today's function onto the dais.

1. First I would like to invite our honorable Principal (Prof.......) to come onto the dais, take his respective chair. Please come sir.

2. Now I take the pleasure of inviting our beloved H.O.D (Prof.....) to come onto the dais.

3. May I request (name of the faculty) sir to come onto the dais & take your respective seat.

4. I feel it my honor to invite (name of the faculty) sir/madam to come onto the dais &take your respective seat. (like this invite d guests onto d dais. O.K?)

5. I feel it my immense pleasure to invite Prof. ...................... to come onto the dais.

-->Next Invite one of your senior classmates come to the dais, sing any cultural song (or)"vandemataram" song (or) any other song to begin the program. (a girl student is preferable here)

-->Next:-Request your principal first to give his message or to share a few words with all of you.

Say like this:-

Now I request our honorable principal sir to share a few words with us.

Later H.O.D, staff.

(after their message, say, thank you for your speech/ message sir.)

-->Next invite a few students also to the dais if they want to share their views. (Don’t neglect this one.O.k?)

-->Later you can start your cultural programmes. Okay?

-->If then your Principal, H.O.D. want to leave the place, don't forget to thank them for their visiting your function.

Just say- We thank you for your presence in this party sir.

-->That's how you can make the anchoring role in a very simple way.

-->While doing anchoring, don't forget to maintain smile on your face, and don’t showcase any tense, anxiety on your face.

--> Use simple English. Need not to speak difficult words or sentences.

That's it. Just make an attempt in any occasion. Anchoring role is a kind of skill that lessens your stage fear, makes you a special student. Of course, you will become the center of attraction among all the students. It is pretty easy to do in fact.

So, are you ready to do it?

Yours,

Vali Basha Shaik

M.A. English, B.Ed, M.Phil (pursuing)

Asst. Professor of English

Guntur.

 The plight of working as a faculty in Engineering Colleges in the current scenario- an Article.

Dear Friends,

I would like to share my views with you on this article, which may sense the Engineering students and their parents, faculty of Engineering education, the management who run these colleges and of course, the auspicious students who want to join the web of Engineering world...
    

During the early years of engineering education, working as a faculty is a matter of great respect. They enjoyed a great respect, experienced lot many privileges as faculty. They were well paid, given other financial allowances like semester exam invigilation amount and other things. Salaries were paid in very first week of every month. There were no unqualified faculty in the colleges. The faculty were resourceful, potential, knowledge seekers. Students would respect them, like them like anything. They dared not sit in the presence of their faculty and hardly mock at them.
    

But now, all the above mentioned things have extinguished. In most of the current Engineering colleges of A.P. the faculty are very meagerly paid, and that too, salaries are paid once in two months, in worst cases once in three months. It is also fact that very few colleges of A.P. pay external exam invigilation amount and lab exam conduction amount to their faculty, though they deserve it. I think there are very few colleges in A.P., in which the faculty inwardly respect their management due to these reasons.
    

Of course, faculty should possess required qualification and good teaching skills along with sound subject knowledge. In the recent years there are very few potential, skilled faculty in most of the colleges. They use rigid methods of teaching, don't make the students involve in the subject they teach. But, the management, pitily, don't ever concern the competencies of their faculty. They don't bother whether the faculty concerned really has good teaching skills or not. In order to recruit a faculty into the college, Principals, H.O.D.s and other officials take the caste, religious, locality of the employ into consideration. It is totally absurd, I feel. The faculty recruited basing on their caste, religion and locality is very disgusting to know. Isn't it? It is a naked truth that in most of the current Engineering colleges in A.P., a resourceful faculty is less paid than a recommended candidate under the shade of caste, religion etc. What about their teaching & subject standards? What kind of knowledge do they deliver to their innocent students? Unfortunately, these are unanswerable questions in engineering colleges. In fact, they possess very poor subject knowledge. Not to talk about their English proficiency. They hardly speak in English in the class& with the students.
    

 It is true that students respect the teacher who sincerely teaches them with a commitment to make them potential 'students’. Unfortunately we have very less number of teachers like this. That might be the reason, Engineering students hardly respect their faculty both in teacher's presence and absence; outwardly and in their soul...

      Another problematic thing in most of the Engineering colleges is B. Tech graduates teach to B. Tech students, which I haven’t been figured it out until now. How can a graduate student officially teach B. Tech students? Can this faculty justify their job? Poor students, they don't know these ground realities prevailed in their college. Even they sense these things, they can do nothing as approaching to the management in this regard is useless and if the students go for extremes, it is inevitable that their certificates might be in danger in due course and their Degree itself will be screwed up. I have heard of it through some Engineering students who have come across me.
What about, in general, the functions of Engineering faculty? It is pitiable to know that the faculty, now-a-days, not only have to perform the job of teaching but clerical works, even attender works in the worst case. It is prevalent now in almost all the Engineering colleges in Andhra Pradesh.
I'm not saying that the faculty should have a great deal of free time to rest. I recommend that the faculty should have a reasonable leisure time to think of innovative methods of teaching their subject, to think of conducting seminars, presentations, debates, and workshops etc. which are beneficial for students. It is true that most of the current Engineering graduates possess only bookish knowledge. They don't have the practical knowledge of their course. In fact faculty should instill this practical knowledge in the students, who should become the successful engineers of India. This is what exactly lagging in our most of the so called Engineering colleges.

     In their non-teaching hours, in general, the faculty are always hooked in clerical works like writing attendance registers, course files, student mentor books, faculty books and the so called giant NAAC files. If they always do these things, where is the scope for the faculty to think of innovative methods of teaching...? I am not saying all these things are unnecessary. But these things shouldn't involve faculty to do them painstakingly. The managements may think that faculty should think of innovative teaching and other experiments at home. But practically, it doesn't afford faculty to find time do these things at home. Because of their busy involvement in these unproductive activities, the faculty have forgot to think and implement any productive experiments during their class hours. Hence, the result is, students feel boredom of listening casual, traditional, inactive, teacher-centered classes. That's why very few students pay attention to their teaching, focus on their course.

     I would like to recommend that the faculty should be given a reasonable leisure time to do something for the progress and potentiality of the students. Of course management, here, should seek the faculty's tasks every now and then by conducting staff meetings. If it happens, every faculty will certainly put their efforts to enhance their subject knowledge thereby implement a few innovative experiments for the sake of the students. Otherwise, teachers just remain as faculty not as scholars in their subject, and students’ standards will not be improved. Students possess mere knowledge; will only be treated as nominal degree holders during the time of interviews.
That's it friends... This is what I felt and noticed in the Engineering web as a faculty. 

I hope my views on this article make sense to you at least.

Yours,
Vali Basha Shaik
M. A.,B. Ed. M. Phil (pursuing)
Asst. Prof of English

Guntur.

 

The Prevalence of Caste-religion mania in India- an Article.

Dear friends, 

I would like to share my views with you about the Caste& religion System that has deep-rooted in the life of Indians.
     The word "Caste", literally means -any of the hereditary social classes and subclasses of the societies. And “Religion” means- any practice that someone or some group is seriously devoted to. In fact these two things are meant for a general identity of the people, to identify one another (besides our religious worship). But, unfortunately, these two words matter more than 'identity' to us. Let me substantiate my views.
     Wherever we go, whomever we meet, whatever we do for our comfort we bother 'our caste or religion’, take them as an important consideration. Government has given reservation to certain backward class& caste people. Of course, that is undoubtedly for their welfare. But, we, in general, apply this 'caste& religion reservation' in education sector, job recruitment, politics, marriage proposals, the locality where we live, entertainment, and even in providing any service; money-paid service or free service.
     When a group of employers attempt any interview to try their luck, most of the interviewers, look into the details of employers' caste or religion information besides their academic& experience details. It is a fact that most of the interviewers (mostly in private sector) entertain only the candidates belong to their own caste or religion. In this regard 'caste' of the employ plays a vital role more than religion. Interviewers don't bother whether their selected 'caste-influenced' employs possess the required competencies of the job. Now, this is vividly noticeable in Engineering College faculty recruitment.
An unskilled, tactless employ, manages to get a job, gets more salary than a potential, skilled employ on the grounds of caste-religion influence. Can this influenced employ justify his job duties? Be it an example, can a caste/religion favoured faculty justify his/her students?
        In education sector too we find number of caste or religion-driven students and faculty. A Reddy parent wishes to join his son/daughter only in a college established by Reddys, likewise Naidus, Kammas, Kapus, and Chowdaries; in religion level too Muslim parents in Muslim colleges, Christian parents in Christian colleges. A Muslim faculty (in private sector) hardly find a job in a college established by Christians and vice-versa. Noticeable issues are evident that the faculty too unmindfully maintain this caste-religion domination, especially among themselves.
     In politics, most of the people vote for the candidates who belong to either their caste or religion. This is prevalent in almost all over India. In all sectors of elections, a Naidu voter only vote for Naidu candidate, likewise Reddys to Reddy, BC's to BC's, SC's to SC’s, Muslims to Muslim, Christians to Christian and so on. Most of the people's notion, in this regard, is they believe that "their" candidate only will do some favour for their welfare. Unfortunately, the situation also has become like "their" candidate try his/her best to favour only to his/her caste or religion people. I think this might also be the reason why we have been hear the words like "politics is corrupted.

     In the issue of marriage too caste& religion words concern a lot to us. In order to find a suitable person to marry off, almost 90% (I should say 99% I think) parents search only for their "caste" person. This is mostly noticeable in Hindu & Islam religions (of course in other religions too). No matter what kind of person he/she is while they do so. Even an 'other caste' fellow is good-natured or a good employ or well-educated we don't bother. We don't concern them but only our caste fellow, though he/she doesn't possess the above mentioned things. This is the plight of inter-caste marriages prevailed in our society. Not to talk about Inter-religion marriages, as it is almost a herculean effort to make them in Indian society. I think these typical nuances are the root causes for most of the eloped love marriages in India.

     Another pathetic situation prevailed due to this 'caste-religion mania' is, even finding a house for rent in a city like Guntur has become a tough task. When one go to a house to ask for rent-house, that has a tagged to-let board, the owner seeks the details of the people, whether they belong to their religion. (religion is a vital issue in this regard more than ones caste) If they don't belong to their religion, the house-owner rejects to offer rent-house to them. No religious house-owners are exempted in this issue. A Muslim house-owner offers his rent house only to a Muslim family, likewise Hindu house owners and Christian house owners. One of my friends being a Muslim once made a frantic search to find a rent-home for his sister. As they were new to Guntur, it took almost three months for them to find a house for rent, eventually managed to find it only in Muslims locality. This has almost become unavoidable problem in the cities like Guntur. Why? What's wrong with other religion people? Aren't they humans like us? If a religion house-owner doesn't wish to provide his rent-home to 'others', doesn't he think that same situation will rise of his religion rent-holders too?
     Surprisingly, in entertainment field too this 'manodu (our hero)' influence is not exempted. We do like the entire movie actress. But, being driven by caste, most of fans showcase their reserved liking in this regard too. It is mostly noticeable in Hindu fans. We have Chowdary hero fans, Naidu hero fans, Reddy and other hero fans. Haven't we?
       Friends, we are living in advanced, highly-modern 21 Century. But, our mania for 'caste & religion' preference has grounded us to very deep old age levels. How come a person's caste or religion becomes a parameter to decide his/her conduct and competencies? We have read Mulk Raj Anand's classic novel, 'Untouchable' which touches upon the caste system and its abuses, and we well appreciated it. What did we learn with the gist of this great novel? Unfortunately, the novel's great message could not instill any impact on us. We have been carrying the legacy of this caste-religion influence to the future generations...
Just think of this,
     Can we contribute for the development of our society with this caste-religion mania?
I think these are unanswerable queries in our society. Until and unless we cast away this caste-religion favour, these queries will remain unanswerable.
All these are not fictitious invented views. These issues do exist in our society. Most of us might have faced any one of the above mentioned problems, mild or severe ones, in our life. Mightn't we?
What do you say...?

 

Yours,
Vali Basha Shaik

M. A. English, B. Ed, M. Phil (Pursuing)
Asst. Professor of English
Guntur.

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