MALARVADI MEGA QUIZ MOCKERY - FEW QUESTIONS TO MR. PRADEEP TOO

Dear Sir,
SUBJECT: A MEGA QUIZ MOCKERY - THE WAY MALARVADI GCC MEGA QUIZ WAS CONDUCTED.

(FEW QUESTIONS TO MR. PRADEEP TOO…. )

To have been seated on big decorated chair will not make any one great.

To be grea one has to be great by himself, by being humble and simple without having too much of claims, and being really great from inner soul and from the quality of inner soul.

To have been conducted (the second phase of Malarvadi’s GCC Mega Quiz contest (for juniors) in Kuwait) by Mr. Pradeep or to have (the same) been conducted with the support of great technology does not or will not make and mean that such an event was an event great and successful.

To be great and to be considered successful, such a program has to connect with its participants and has to be able to motivate and encourage them. It has to be able to help them to believe in themselves and to help them boost their confidence level, especially when such a program is conducted for children.

At least, a program should not be meant only to de-motivate and frighten the children with the foolishly serious look of its conductors or event or by artificially giving pretentious intellectual or genius look to the event or its conductors. Never the mind should be set to make the questioner (Quiz Master) win the contest.

It is easy for any one to make tough questions. Especially fools easily come up with toughest and unanswerable questions. But, the toughest thing in the world is to make tough things look easy. Browsing Internet or referring big books, it is very easy even for children to come up with more tougher and un-answerable questions. No need for Mr. Pradeep to come for that in his great name. Wise man is the one who gives what is suiting. Never a wise mother will give Biriyani to the new born baby, even though she will eat it herself. Carbohydrate may be same. But some are in Biriyani form and some other are biscuit and breast milk form.

None of the parents would have wanted and wished to see all their children to become the winners of this event (any even) for sure. There is no for-sure winner in any contest. And it is not possible too for all to become winners in one and same contest.

But all the parents would have wished one simple thing. To give their children a kind of simple feeling that they could do something and they could participate in some event of their level. The feel that they also got out into the play ground and played. They would have seen a chance for their child to prove themselves, improve their confidence level and to see where they are in relation to the challenges they have to face as children. But with relevance. No one would have wanted to buy a dog that will bite for sure.

Malarvadi, if it did not learn any lesson from its experience hitherto, should learn now that it is not so great to see the children defeated. It is not great to defeat the children and to give the children the feel of defeated-ness.

As you may be aware, it is easy for a fool to make and go after serious and tough questions. But it is not very easy to address and read the soul and spirit of the children. Malarvadi did what it could do as a fool easily. It did not do and go after the tougher side of learning how to address the soul and spirit of childhood. Malarvadi could have come up with some questions of relevance to childhood, from their living surrounding of children, from science, from space, from environment, from history, from India, knowing that they were only children 11 and 12 years old, studying in 5th and 6th standards.

The second phase of GCC Mega Quiz was successful and useful to the children to get them defeated (even though some of them will be declared first or second or third prize winners) and to give them very great (for Malarvadi) hurt feel of defeat. It was helpful to them to exhaust their air of confidence and to give Malarvadi and Mr. Pradeep a look of great genius and victorious.

Malarvadi might have spent a lot of money to get Mr. Pradeep as its conductor and for the technology it has resorted to for this event. And Malarvadi could have got this big amount of money easily accumulated from the exorbitant (unnecessary) fees Malarvadi collected for this event from little children (IRS 185).

Malarvadi could also have foolishly satisfied itself to have earned great mileage to itself and its patron organization Jama’at E Islami and its outfits in GCC, the conductors and organizers of the MEGA Quiz here in GCC and for getting a good (negative) advertisement to the magazine Malarvadi.

But Malarvadi could not understand and learn a very simple lesson that it could not win the minds of children who participated in it. It could not read the mind and standard of the children. It could not know that the children who participated in it got more de-motivated. It became so pretentious that it could not come up with a product that suits to the children’s level and standard. It was trying to put 500 kilogram weight on the shoulders of children of 10 and 11 years old, to show that it is (they are) much qualified with its weighty questions and only it is the ultimate victorious.

Malarvadi did not know the greatest effort is required to get the children win, at least in their feel . Malarvadi did not know the greatest achievement has to be in making the children win and to have in all of them a feel of win, by creating a win – win situation, and by giving them a feel they were able to do something (as Annaarakkannanum thannaalaayathu).

To be frank, I would say and, let Malarvadi know, that the children who participated in this quiz contest event, and their parents, had a feel of “got-cheated and fooled”. It did not test their children. Rather it mocked at them a lot by saying that Pradeep can come up with really tougher and unanswerable (even to the grown-ups) questions. It tried to measure the children in the way some extra-genius are measured, tried and tested. It gave no choices to them and made them really helpless. It wanted the children to be more perfect than IAS and IPS and IFS candidates.

This contest did give the children a feel that it was wrong for children to have tried or participated to contest in such a so-called MEGA Quiz contest. It gave them a threatening look to mean that they should not have attended such a quiz contest at all. It tried to tell children’s fate and destiny is ever to be defeated and to have ‘feel of defeat’ throughout their life. It tried to teach them that they should reduce their confidence level to its maximum extent, if they have got any.

In front of Malarvadi’s GCC MEGA QUIZ they became like some players who got into the play ground, but came out of the ground, without being able to play, very soon just for the reason that the ball with which they were asked to play was made of iron, referees were lions, the ground itself was too much with stones and thorns and the players were not allowed to wear shoes or socks.

In the beginning and before such a contest got conducted children had a very simple thought. Since this mega quiz program was conducted by a children’s magazine of long past experience, it would have some childish elements it. It will boost their confidence level. It will have some fun for them to remember. It will, by all means, suit to their mental standard and psychology.

But when it was over, they had a very clear cut conclusion about Malarvadi that it did understand more of Malarvadi’s interest and hidden agendas. That Malarvadi didn’t have any prior experience and did not do any prior (preparatory) studies to understand and to handle children’s level, mindset and psychology. At least it did not watch how many other children’s magazines and groups are conducting this kind of quiz contests.

To make its event greater with difference, it should have conducted understanding the children’s psychology and mindset.

With the above my comments, let me ask Malarvadi some simple questions as below about the quiz competitions that Malarvadi has conducted under pretext of GCC Mega Quiz?

1. When Malarvadi were conducting second phase of GCC Mega Quiz for Junior children, what were the things in the minds of Malarvadi ?

2. Did Malarvadi think that to come up with tougher and unanswerable questions was such a great thing to achieve and to be proud of?

3. Was Malarvadi really sincere and serious to seek and see the development in children and to give them motivation, than propagating its hidden agenda or giving mileage to its and its outfits’ cause of getting advertisement, coverage and acceptance?

4. Didn’t Malarvadi know those junior children, who were participating it, were not the candidates applying for IAS and IFS or IPS?

5. Didn't Malarvadi know that even syllabus based exams and quiz contests were done with multiple choices, in an objective way? You may have your own the logic, excuse and reason, that the multiple choice will make the lucky one to win, than the one really knowing. But better was to give that excuses, logic and reason go in favor of children. Or at least to come up with the questions of relevance to them.

6. Didn’t Malarvadi watch and see any other quiz programs conducted by any similar group? At least a very commercial, “Kaun Banega Karorepati”, a great quiz program conducted for grown-ups in one of India’s TV channels. It is for grown up people, still with multiple choices.

7. Didn’t Malarvadi know even the Medical and Engineering entrance Tests are conducted (even after the candidates’ thorough preparations for the same) with multiple choices?

Hoping and thinking Malarvadi and its MEGA Quiz organizers will be kind enough to answer the above and give me a reply.

With kind regards

Abdul Raheem