Sufficient fund needed to preserve culture: Hekali

North- East level seminar on the impact of global change on the cultural heritage of North East India was conducted on Friday at hotel Saramati with director of North East Zone Cultural Centre (NEZCC) Hekali Zhimomi as chief guest.
Underlining the importance of preserving culture, Hekali pointed out the need of state government’s initiative and innovation to cope up with the changes taking place in the world in terms of culture and for which, she said sufficient funds for preserving culture was needed.
Hekali also stressed on identification and documentation of intellectual and traditional properties by involving local communities to help preserve and develop local culture of the north eastern region and also touched on the importance of community based management system in order to sustain and develop culture.
Later at the seminar, Dr. Dinesh Baishya, Principal B.B College, Guwahati presented on the visible impact of globalization on indigenous language and culture on Assam. Speaking on the topic, he stressed on the concept of the global village that has changed the outlook of future society.
He said, “Globalization and modernization based on the industrial revolution have clearly been globalised process, although it has not reached every part of the world”. He added although many cultures and races have been destroyed or forced to change by another culture or race, many have been able to maintain their cultural and racial identities.
A result of growing trend of globalization indigenous societies have lost the most valuable treasure of nature’ s secrets, locked away in the traditional societies and language in form of folk songs, stories, art and handicrafts of people. Above all many cultures and languages are teetering on the brink of extinction in the face of globalization and thousands of world cultures have already vanished, he said.
Speaking on Assam society, he said the process of globalization had become the number one killer of indigenous languages of minor linguistic societies. Rampant uses of English and Hindi loan words and meaningless vulgar words by the new generations especially in FM radios have started to rot and kill the indigenous linguistics societies of the region.
Some of the corrupted language he mentioned were ‘bindass’, ‘bah diya’, ‘bah khouna’, ‘botala,’ ‘boss’, ‘masti’, ‘mast zakkas’, ‘guli’, ‘son michel’, ‘mokkel’, ‘maliya’, ‘moniram’ ‘khel’, ‘nagen’, ‘leo’ etc.
Earlier at the inaugural function, Padmashree Sentila T. Yanger welcomed the gathering from various states of northeast and T. L Merry, BJP state general secretary pronounced the vote of thanks. About 20 delegates from various states of northeast attended the seminar.