Re: The 'First Teacher'( ගුරු ගීතය)
Dharmapala Gunawardena
ශුභ නව වසරක් වේවා සැමට !
දයාට තුති වැදගත් දෙයක් පිළිබඳව දැනුම් දුන්නට. බැලුවම මට හිතුනෙ අපි අයිත්මාතව්ගේ ශේෂ්ථත්වය දුටු අයුරින් අද ලංකාවේ තරුණයින් ඒ දෙස බලයිද කියල. එහෙම බලන විධියට අපි ඒ ගොල්ලො සකස් කරලද කියල සැකයි.
ජයවේවා!
May the new year bring you greater heights of success and prosperity. Have a happy new year!
.........and I have good news too. Soon you will be able to see a Sri Lankan film based on soviet writer Chingis Aitmatov's famous novel 'The First Teacher'
See the trailer of the movie.
In the previous 10-12 months I have been in touch with several thousand young men and women from Sri Lanka via a 'Art and Literature Forum' in the facebook and was very much surprised and delighted to discover that Chingiz Aitmatov's 'First Teacher' is a famous read in Sri Lanka. It's translated to both Sinhala and Tamil. Some young people have read this short novel several times and they are discussing and even writing poems about the main two characters.
Many people can come to the conclusion that Aitmatov’s 'First Teacher' is basically a soviet propaganda novel but it allures any reader irrespective of race or creed as its theme, the emotional bond of a hardworking teacher and a talented student is universal.The novel is narrated by an artist who is given the responsibility to convey a touching story of an orphan who for the first time ever is treated with love and respect by the teacher. The story revolves around this illiterate teacher(Duishen), his student (Altynai) and the two poplar trees standing tall like forming a link between the past and the present.
Each nation offers at least one single book on educators/education which will make you weep, this is the ONE from Kyrgyzstan. Beneath the politics and the propaganda, there lies a story which could be found relevant even today.
In places with war , poverty and discrimination , any child would be glad to have a "Duishen" who would bestow upon them the gift of Education against all odds. While reading , your thoughts may wander towards the girls in Afghanistan and Nigeria who are finding dire obstacles, in their quest for knowledge or spare a thought to the child brides in Yemen, who will not be rescued and sent to school. For each one of them , you may wish for more modern day Duishens.
Duishen, an ex-revolutionary, comes to his village after the revolution and the revolutionary Soviet government has entrusted him with the task of starting a new school without providing any facility except a meager salary for him. He explains the importance of educating the children in the village to their parents but fails to convince them. They are ignorant busy farmers and don’t understand the value of education as the only option they see to succeed in life is farming.
Having been snubbed by the villagers for his request to help him build a school, he embarks on a solitary task of converting an abandoned stable into a school. His only admirer is a teenage girl called Altynai who helps him dropping cow dung as fuel in his stable in secret one day. It is from this girl’s perspective that the book has been written. She becomes an immediate beneficiary of the school as she is very smart in learning. But her guardian aunt and uncle (Altynai is an orphan) loath the school and only let her go to school after Duishen uses force with the revolutionary government’s documents.
After becoming a great admirer of young teacher Duishen, Altynai almost falls in love with him but he treats her only as a loyal student. His only dream is to see Altynai succeed in education and become a big academic one day.
In the meantime Altynai’s guardians sell her to a middle-aged rascal of a man who has daughters older than Altynai. He already has a wife and Altynai is raped by him in his hut while she was only 15. She becomes a concubine of this cad. Before being raped, Duishen fights this man and his helpers to save Altynai but he fails as he is overpowered by the group.
I think I have told you more than enough. The rest rests in your hands now. Download or buy the book and read it for yourself.........or wait to see the film.
Dharmapala Gunawardena
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ශුභ නව වසරක් වේවා සැමට !
දයාට තුති වැදගත් දෙයක් පිළිබඳව දැනුම් දුන්නට. බැලුවම මට හිතුනෙ අපි
අයිත්මාතව්ගේ ශේෂ්ථත්වය දුටු අයුරින් අද ලංකාවේ තරුණයින් ඒ දෙස බලයිද කියල.
එහෙම බලන විධියට අපි ඒ ගොල්ලො සකස් කරලද කියල සැකයි.
ජයවේවා!
On Thu, Dec 31, 2015 at 11:26 AM, Dayananda Attanayake <
dayan...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> *May the new year bring you greater heights of success and prosperity.
> Have a happy new year!*
>
>
> .........and I have good news too. Soon you will be able to see a Sri
> Lankan film based on soviet writer Chingis Aitmatov's famous novel 'The
> First Teacher'
>
> See the trailer of the movie.
>
> https://youtu.be/8DfYIhSsNK8
>
>
> <https://youtu.be/8DfYIhSsNK8>
> Guru Geethaya Movie Trailer <https://youtu.be/8DfYIhSsNK8>
> youtu.be
> Guru Geethaya Movie Main Actors : Roshan Ravindra, Gamini Hettiarachchi
> Main Actresses : Damayanthi Fonseka,Kalpani Jayasingha, Subudhi
> Lakmali,Hysinth Wijer...
>
> In the previous 10-12 months I have been in touch with several thousand
> young men and women from Sri Lanka via a 'Art and Literature Forum' in the
> facebook and was very much surprised and delighted to discover that Chingiz
> Aitmatov's 'First Teacher' is a famous read in Sri Lanka. It's translated
> to both Sinhala and Tamil. Some young people have read this short
> novel several times and they are discussing and even writing
> poems about the main two characters.
>
>
> Many people can come to the conclusion that Aitmatov’s 'First Teacher' is*
> basically a soviet propaganda novel but it allures any reader irrespective
> of race or creed as its theme, the emotional bond of a hardworking
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