Integral heritage (Misc topic)

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Namaskar RKDa, A really poignant mail from you Sir I am in full agreement with your views (particularly about the generation of today) Your statement about VVIP's is also in tune with the present times We require a Yug Purush like Swami Vivekananda in these times of total chaos.Sadly we are left with politicians like DeveGowda George Bernard Shaw was right when he said 'Politics is the last refuge of

scoundrels' Regards, aavesh arkaydash <arkaydash wrote: Dear Sridhar,Good reminder from you. Not for nothing that an Australian historian, an Indologist of repute, A.L. Bhasham calls his signature work 'The Wonder That Was India'. Rupa publication uses a hunting scene for the book cover. The graphic belies the marvel that lies between the lines of the text, which in turn kind of underrepresents the real marvel. To leave the book behind, ours used to be a great civilasation. Sadly we are not a proud

nation even in terms of our integral heritage. Our creeping amnesia is explained by history. History we suffered, history we lived. The amnesia is now explained by our aural severence. And reinforced by our graphic consumptions. The oral tradition was a bulwark of incorruptibility for our songs, suktis and sutras that hold together our integral heritage at the core. It will take time for us to find out whether the Discovery Of India (by Nehru) is good enough. We burn our libraries (Bhandarkar Oriental...), but secure the walking carcasses that are VVIP most assiduously. We need a generation that will thoroughly learn 'the inner mastery' even while writing programmes, maybe who can begin his day reciting 'Ja(d)jjagrato duramupeiti tadusuptsya tatheibiti... tanme manah...' More later,RK