Trying to make the residual emerge and become dominant

This Saturday was one of the most crowded Saturdays of this academic year. The event and the reason being bhog ceremony of Akhand Path of Shri Guru Granth Saheb were to be held on 5^th of February like every year. But we as students of M.A.2^nd year, so called the senior most class were supposed to attend classes as well. As Rajesh Sir has planned we were ready for getting a long lecture of more than an hour. Unlike usual days, today I reached college somewhat early. Having enough time to take my eyes all around the college premises, I observed dominance of Punjabi suits among girls and traditional Kurta pajamas in otherwise handsome hunks of my college. I felt as if I have entered a fair. Everyone was moving here and there. Almost every boy was with covered head. Just a glimpse of this scene made me feel as if I am in a traditional fair.

In the class we were to discuss about Raymond William’s text, Dominant, Residual and Emergent. Honestly speaking I was in a mood to attend the lecture very attentively which we generally don’t. After the class was over, we went to the boys’ hostel mess where the path ceremony was going on. May be because I am a student of literature or without any reason, I am in habit of analysing or observing everything that happens around me from a different perspective. I think the religious feelings of the students of my college were ‘trying to make the residual emerge and become dominant’. As dominant stands for a force that exists in power for a particular period of time, residual is a force that was dominant in past but still has its effectiveness in present and emergent is the force that questions the dominance of the dominant forces, I think on that day fashion of western dresses was being questioned by the religious feelings of students and most of the crowd was in Indian dresses. I think we can get modernized to any extent but can't deny having those traditional feelings that we as Indians have acquired as a heritage in our blood.

I don’t know to what extent my observation is correct but I thought I must put it into words because according to me, “it’s better to write, express and let what you think come out of mind, so that there can enough empty space in it to make further observations.”