News desk, Ambassa
Jan.27, 2018: Parish organized one day seminar for the Kumarghat Parish leaders on Media and Leadership. There were 60 signed participants for the training of the trainers program on Media & Leadership but actually there were more than hundred.
Agartala Diocese coordinator for Social communication Fr. Ivan D’Silva, svd was the main resource person and assisted by Fr. Arul CSC the parish priest of Kumarghat Parish. He called on the leaders of the Parish both men and women to be more proactive and to update the knowledge on Social Media. Through video clips and power point presentation, he made the seminar more interactive. He told that, when dealing with youth and with children on issues of media, leaders have to be aware of the media language. He made them aware, how the media language of films, advertisements, TV. serials, mobile whatsapp etc can be so polite and yet so deceptive. He said, “fake news in the T.V news channels, news papers & fake whatsapp messages can bring tension and violence among the people”.
Therefore, he said, “misuse of these media can bring disaster and not blessing”. He urged the leaders, to get educated and educate others on Media. Leaders vouched that they would not be mute spectators or viewers or listeners of the Media but they would dare to question and discuss it openly rather than shy away.
