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Lokmanya
Vyakhyanmala
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References of public speeches are found right
from the beginning of the Sarvajanik Ganesh festival (the public
celebration of the Ganesh festival). Thanks to these speeches, later
the festival turned into a national knowledge-gathering event.
In our chawl, we too have been organising public speeches right
from the beginning of our festival. Here, illustrious speakers like
Lokmanya Tilak, S M Paranjpe, Dadasaheb Khaparde, Bhalakar Bhopatkar,
Barrister Jaykar, Jamnadas Mehta, Senapati Bapat, Acharya Atre and
Swatantryaveer Savarkar, opened doors of knowledge to the audiences.
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However, later as the festival underwent changes
and the entertainment content in the festival increased, the response
to public speeches reduced. This in turn resulted in the dearth
of good speakers.
We devised a solution to this problem and started Lokmanya Vyakhyanmala
in 1988. Under this five-day-long series of public speeches, one
subject is handled in five different ways. The subjects covered
here so far include the Literature of the saints, Swami Vivekanand,
Lokmanya Tilak, Health, Computers, Problems of Mumbai and Globalisation
etc.
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