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Any festival, festival, or ritual that is celebrated with a specific goal, achievement, and dissemination of culture as its main objective is definitely subject to the recognition of all religions as a reflection of devotion.
Any festival, tradition, or ritual that is subject to mass celebration also has to fulfill such a weighty responsibility very importantly. Because this celebration is not just for celebration and entertainment. Through it, it also has the solemn responsibility of giving a good message to the society through the unity, solidarity, and pride of a culture.
Madikeri Dasara has been making noise for the past few days in spreading the fame of Kodagu at the global level. Along with the cultural splendor of Navratri, a special and different theme-based Dasara celebration will be held every day to give a special touch to Madikeri Dasara. When we think of Madikeri city, the image that comes to mind is different. Narrow, challenging roads for vehicle traffic, always covered in fog during the rainy season, and if the sun appears, we should have the grace of Mother Nature to celebrate festivals, weddings, and festivals. Despite such uncertainties, our village's Dasara is a national festival that we always wait and celebrate.
All the Dasara programs this year took place amidst the roar of Varuna. On Vijayadashami, the last day of Dasara, Varuna's kindness was truly on Madikeri. It must be said that it was the blessings of all the Shakti deities. All the Dasara committees that take the lead in the Dasara celebrations, including the police department, performed a homa in the water at the last moment when the fruits of the hard work of so many people were realized.
There are no words to describe the service of the police department, which is handling the sea of people and taking precautionary measures to prevent any untoward incidents amidst the restrictions on vehicles for the Das Mantap Shobha Yatra held on Vijayadashami. In such a situation, the incident that took place at the end of this year's Dasara day is truly a shameful matter that it has become a black spot in the history of Dasara in Kodagu. The Das Mantap Shobha Yatra has a history of hundreds of years as a festival that proclaims the cultural pride of Madikeri Dasara. The art exhibition of the pavilion was supposed to be a testimony to the devotion and devotion of the devotees. The unhealthy competitive spirit of just winning prizes created so many troubles in a moment. As the results were announced, the stage of the venerable art celebration of art lovers fell victim to arrogance, pride and arrogance. It is our misfortune to see the giant characters who ruled the night in the procession of the pavilions, even on the stage, when they were so arrogant as to lay hands on a police officer who had performed his duty day and night.
It is our misfortune that this has become news not only in Kodagu but also at the international level.
This rude and insulting behavior of a group with a bad mentality has brought an irreparable stain on the name of the entire Kodagu.
Let us accept that the competition in the Das Mantapas is a well-intentioned effort for an attractive performance. But if this result is repeated year after year, when incidents of people not accepting victory and defeat equally, and resorting to any tendency for their prestige, are recurring, then what is the need for such a competition? Since the celebration of Dasara is only a playground for a few, the interests of the community are being neglected. If there is bias in the judging of the Dashamantapas, if there is such a controversy, then competent judges could have been selected from outside instead of selecting local judges. It is true that it is impossible to come up with a result that pleases everyone. But the reasons for seeking a verdict must be appropriate and reasonable. Due to the failure of all these, the Madikeri Dasara, which is celebrated with ten days of cultural splendor, will end in arguments, controversy, confusion, abuse, slander, and insults..
Doesn't this seem like a curse to Madikeri Dasara?
The question remains as to what is the necessity and inevitability of this. If the Madikeri Dasara festival is to be considered at a high level, such trivial incidents must definitely be curbed.
This unhealthy competition is also seen in celebrations like Ganesh Chaturthi recently. It is an unpleasant development that the festival, which is held as a competition in every area, is flourishing as a platform for divided minds instead of being a witness to true devotion, unity and solidarity. Such unhealthy developments are not a symbol of unity but are becoming a kind of mockery due to the exposure of our internal divisions and difficulties. This time, the procession without a DJ disappointed three-quarters of the people who joined. Even in a public opinion interview on a private channel, the only cry heard was that the Madikeri Dussehra without a DJ was boring. There has been a mixed response to this decision of the court order and the police department, which was taken with the main goal of thinking about the welfare of all age groups. The intention of most of the crowd that gathers in thousands is to dance and dance to the DJ during the procession, for the main attraction. The fun, the mischief of the mischievous and indecent behavior of the girls is another experience. The art display of the attractive Das Mantaps, the colorful light show, the blaring music of the dancing and dancing, the Madikeri city, which is like a paradise, shines like a heavenly world all night long, and as the light flows, the naked avatars seem to drown in the piles of garbage scattered everywhere.
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