Sarve Bhavantho Sukhinu,’ when he began his speech with the Sanskrit slogan, not many thought that he would run away with the medal in the national-level Hindi debate competition, which was hitherto the monopoly of North Indians.
But, this Plus-I student from Malappuram district proved the relevance of Napoleon theory - nothing is impossible in this world - to outsmart the North Indians, that too in Hindi debate.P G Vinod, Plus-I student of Kendriya Vidyalaya, Malappuram, surpassed 35 competitors to win the second place in the national-level Hindi competition, held as part of the Social Science Exhibition cum National Integration camp 2007, at Bhubaneswar the other day.
The unique aspect in his achievement is that majority of the participants were North Indians, and not many believed that a South Indian could outsmart his North Indian counterparts, at least in the competition held in the mother tongue of North Indians.
But he proved that Hindi is the national language, not only for the northern part of Indians, but also for south. His achievement was not just a fluke, as he had attempted for it last year.“I participated in the competition last year also, but failed to reach even regional-level. It gave me enough confidence for another trial,” he said.
He then decided to participate in this time, with the active support from his teachers. “The topic was ‘Manush apne dukh se dukhi nahi, balki doosron ke sukh se dukhi hai (Man is not worried about his own woes, but all others’ happiness),’ which was bit difficult to perform. I spoke to my teachers and they guided me to gather information to present the topic,” said Vinod, son of P Gopinath and N Savithri.
He then referred the books including Upanishads, epics and history to speak against the topic, when many were seemingly trying to support the topic.“As per the information I have gathered, no such incidents occurred to substantiate the topic. May be there are people who become sad by seeing the prosperity of others, but not in general. not at all,” says Vinod, who is planning to become an aeronautic engineer, following the footprints of his brother.
It was his schooling in North India that enabled him to handle Hindi so easily.
source: http://www.newindpress.com/
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