Illiteracy: A crucial curse to society
Illiteracy means the
state of being unable to read and write. It is a curse to any society because
illiterate people cannot differentiate between right and wrong and so they
cannot contribute to the development and welfare of the community. People being
educated can go ahead to the right path and can lead a country to progress and
prosperity. To give emphasis on literacy, the Prophet Mohammad (SM) equated one
literate non-believer with ten illiterate believers. As education makes a man
enlightened, illiterate people are deprived of the light of education. So, most
often illiterate people cannot rectify themselves, cannot change their
mentality and obsolete harmful habits, cannot adapt with the new and modern
thoughts, cannot accept the positive social changes, cannot think all equal,
cannot develop the sense of universal brotherhood and so on. That‘s why,
illiteracy is often called a curse. It is a great impediment to the process of
social development. It baffles all development efforts. It gives rise to
poverty, unemployment problem, population problem, health and sanitation
problem etc. It is compared to darkness. So, an illiterate man is always in the
dark and is considered a burden to the society. On the contrary, an educated
man is often enlightened and is considered a great asset to the country. He can
do many things for the welfare of the country. And for these reasons,
illiteracy should be annihilated. It is the responsibility of the literate
people to make the illiterate literate and remove the darkness of ignorance
from the country. We know that the concerted efforts of the literate and
illiterate people can make a country developed. To remove illiteracy, the govt.
must budget for the campaign of eradicating illiteracy. Night schools and mass
literacy centres should be established at every village. Mass media like radio,
television and newspaper can take some initiatives and effective programmes to
educate the illiterate. In this way, if we can eradicate illiteracy from our
society, we will be able to make ours a prosperous country.
Sports and Entertainment: A way to mirthful life
Sports and
entertainment are very often regarded as a means of keeping good health and
leading a sound life. None can keep his body and mind sound without them. Among
different types of outdoor sports, cricket and football are very popular.
Nowadays these have become very popular with the young generations all over the
world. Again out of different indoor sports, hadudu, gollasut, dariabadha,
kanamachhi, jump, race and volleyball are noteworthy. Most of the sports
require quick movement of the limbs. This helps blood-circulation and makes the
body strong and healthy. Sports have certain rules that the participants have
to abide by. Thus through games and sports people learn discipline that is very
essential for practical life. So, sports are very beneficial in different ways.
Different people like different sports. I like football best. Cricket seems to
me lengthy and time-killing though it is interesting. Games and sports give us
opportunities to meet many people of different countries. The sports venue
becomes a meeting place of miscellaneous people. When people of different
nations get together on the occasion of an international sporting event, they
come closer to each other sharing views and opinions and thus they can make
friendship as well as develop the sense of international brotherhood. However,
except games and sports there are other types of entertainment though there
have been significant changes in the types of entertainment over time. Snake
charming, puppet show, jatragan, jarigan, sharigan and kabigan have lost their
appeal to some extent. Radio, television, cinema, band and pop music, internet,
videogame, mobilevision etc. are some leading sources of entertainment in
modern time. From all these sources we get a lot of pleasures. As sports and
entertainment make our body and mind fit for work, we should regularly enjoy
sports and entertainment.
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