Mangalore : Dr B M Hegde, Ex Vice-Chancellor of Manipal University inaugurated the 3 day seminar “Yesterday, today and tomorrow” at IT Auditorium of St Aloysius College on Feb 24, Thursday.
Delivering the inaugural speech, Dr Hegde said that seminar generates knowledge. When a person plans for future, then we must have good knowledge of the past. Because energy is the matter and matter is the energy.
The common people must have some ‘dharma’ towards the society and this dharma does not represent religion but it is the obligation, he said.
Criticizing the public attitude towards road, he said that people dig road several times during the construction of the houses, but after the work is work is done, he do not bother about the pathetic condition about the road.
Mangalore City has the perpetual water, but the people simply waste it washing vehicles, watering plant in the morning. Sprinkling waster on roads to settle the dust and clean the compound of the house. Later they complain about the scarcity of water to Mangalore City Corporation.
He also said that, culture is not dance, drama or Yakshagana but it is what you do, when no one is looking at you. What you say must do and what you do must say, he added.
If a man has insight, then development of society and country is possible. Every religion is good, but the people who practice religion in a wrong direction are bad. In coming days the city must have communal harmony and just think to develop the city and country, he informed.
Delivering the presidential address, B Nagaraj Shetty, chairman of Karnataka Coastal Development Authority said that Mangalore is developing in all the ways in education, population and other things. After Bangalore the second fastest growing city is Mangalore.
He also said that the educational system and development must go hand in hand. Today the higher authorities give speeches on anti corruption, but they must also practice it, he said. The corruption must be totally eradicated for the development of the country, he added.
The seminar has been divided into 13 sessions consisting of three papers each.
Papers presented included pre-British period, Mangalore and colonial trade and Mangalore and urban experience. The session on political perspective follows with papers on pioneers in political leadership, political processes and pressure groups and religion and caste in politics.
Rev Fr Swebert D’Silva, principal welcomed the guests and gathering. Dr Richard Pais, convener of the seminar briefed on the seminar papers to be presented. Prof Dattatreya Rao, president of MSA was present on the occasion.