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'''Renaissance Artists and Writers Association''' or '''RAWA''' is an international organization of artists and writers, founded by [[Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar]] in 1958. Sarkar founded this organization with the mission to utilize and promote art as a method of self-realization and as a service to humanity. The slogan of RAWA is "Art for Service and Blessedness".<ref name="RAWA PS">[ | '''Renaissance Artists and Writers Association''' or '''RAWA''' is an international organization of artists and writers, founded by [[Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar]] in 1958. Sarkar founded this organization with the mission to utilize and promote art as a method of self-realization and as a service to humanity. The slogan of RAWA is "Art for Service and Blessedness".<ref name="RAWA PS">[https://sarkarverse.org/PS/rawa.html About RAWA]</ref> | ||
== Foundation == | == Foundation == | ||
Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar founded Renaissance Artists and Writers Association in | Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar founded Renaissance Artists and Writers Association on 26 January 1958<ref name="ST">[http://www.speakingtree.in/events/rawa-renaissance-artists-and-writers-association-cultural-programme_20335 RAWA details and cultural programmes]</ref> in order to restore art to its true role as an instrument for social and spiritual awakening. He envisioned an artistic renaissance where artists and writers would unite and inspire society to move forward in a progressive direction.<ref name="RAWA PS" /> | ||
== Objectives == | == Objectives == | ||
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=== Dramatists' and Cinema-Artists' Association === | === Dramatists' and Cinema-Artists' Association === | ||
[[File:RAWA dance event.jpg|thumb|280px|RAWA dance event at Visakhapattanam]] | |||
This sub-section consists dramatists, cinema-artists and photographers. Their function are— | This sub-section consists dramatists, cinema-artists and photographers. Their function are— | ||
# To produce progressive dramas, films and plays in conformity with the ideology of RAWA, thereby fighting against obscene plays, dramas, films and photography. | # To produce progressive dramas, films and plays in conformity with the ideology of RAWA, thereby fighting against obscene plays, dramas, films and photography. | ||
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=== Journalists' Association === | === Journalists' Association === | ||
This is the journalists' association of RAWA. Their functions are— | |||
# To create new journalists through proper training. | |||
# To search for employment for unemployed journalists. | |||
# To fight for the just causes and grievances of journalists. | |||
# To fight for absolute freedom of the press. | |||
# To keep the member-journalists informed about the different systems of journalism of the world. | |||
# To provide economic protection to other economically handicapped journalists. | |||
# To fight against sectarianism, communalism, casteism, and to promote the cause of universalism through the use of the press. | |||
# To make journalism an effective medium for mass communications and the right type of social, political and economic education. | |||
== References == | == References == | ||