Recognise your inner being, theme of PU’s youth festival

Lovleen Bains

Doraha, September 18

The theme of the youth and heritage festival of Panjab University (PU), Chandigarh, for this year is “Recognise your inner being.” The theme is dedicated to the 550th birth anniversary celebrations of Guru Nanak Dev.

The Vice-Chancellor of Panjab University, Prof Raj Kumar, will formally release the logo of the theme tomorrow at PU. In his message to all colleges participating in the festival, he said: “Since the youth is the most powerful sector of a social set up, it is the responsibility of teachers to enable them to discover their inner beings by making them realise their potential and capability to the fullest. Once our youth is truly awakened from within, no power on earth can let us down. The ills ailing the society shall vanish on their own if the energy of the youth is recognised and channelised in the proper direction.”

The director of youth welfare, Panjab University, Nirmla Jaura, while sharing about the theme of the festival, said the thought of the theme had been extracted from the holy book Guru Granth Sahib, which states “apna mool pachaan” — recognire your inner being. “What the educators and the intellectuals feel world over is that the youth has definitely gone astray due to several pulls and pressures. High tech developments and cut throat competition have unfortunately made them bereft of all noble and finer feelings of life. It is the light of peace, wisdom, joy, happiness, fellow feeling and concern which is sadly lacking in the human race as a whole. The theme has been very thoughtfully ascribed to the youth and heritage festival being conducted this year.”

Tejinder Dhaliwal, principal, Guru Nanak College for Girls, Muktsar, congratulated the university for assigning such a theme to the festival and said: “Unfortunately, the youth today is neither at harmony with themselves nor with others. They are devoid of all feelings of compassion, concern and care. Support, civility, sympathy, kindness and consideration have been lost in the humdrum of life. The theme shall definite prove a source of enlightenment and food for thought for the youngsters who become a part of the festival in one way or the other.”