| ID | 135717 |
| Title Proper | Lord Shiva beyond the political India |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Kumar, B.B |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | The Asiatic cultural continuum, with India at the centre of the gravity, is a fact yet to be discovered and discoursed fully. There has been multi-directional diffusion of the cultural traits and the belief systems. Some religious and socio-cultural traits, such as ancestor worships, belief in life after death, rebirth, re-incarnation, Karmic theory and
liberation from the life-cycle (nirvāna and moksa), used to be widespread covering entire Asia. The commonality extended in many other aspects linked to the traditional religions, what we call Sanatan Dharma, presently called Hinduism. The discovery of the commonality helps self-discovery and self-appraisal; it becomes an act of selfportraiture. Of course, in India, information on such topics is never given to the students, it is taboo practiced by our academics and intellectuals to have discourse on such subjects. This leads to ‘Culture/ tradition illiteracy’, a dominant trait of English educated modern Indians. As a result, our elite have inherited lot of myths, lies and
confusion from their colonial masters. Anything beyond political India, even if non-political and otherwise deeply linked, is alien for them. The denial syndrome is pervasive; it envelopes cultural, linguistic, historical and all other spheres. There is an increasing trend of replacing India for ‘South Asia’ during the academic discourses today; the use of the term ‘Bharata’ is becoming rarer in scholarly writings,
which is part of the same malady. |
| `In' analytical Note | Dialogue Vol.16, No.2; Oct-Dec.2014: p.81-85 |
| Journal Source | Dialogue 2014-12 16, 2 |
| Standard Number | Politics |