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My speech yesterday at Mylapore on traditions, their relationship with economics & sociology. Traditions have held us together for millennia. Political ideologies whose life are failing against millennial traditions 1/2
Shelf life of ideologies that fought traditions are crashing. Colonialism lasted for 200 years. Capitalism 100 years. Communism 50 years. Globalisation 25 years. Out of the debris of Communism Confucianism emerged in China, Orthodox Xianity in Russia, Roman Catholicism in Poland
When will so called intellectuals realise that beliefs, traditions, culture, values that transcend & defy economics and contemporaneity can't be wiped out except by barbarians. Only barbarians have succeeded in destroying others traditions. The days of barbarians are over
The average age of Karnatic musicians was over 40 twenty years ago. Now it is in 20s. IIT/IIM educated are pursuing full-time music. Music is a path to reach enlightenment, even realisation. Not just art. So is dance, sculpture..see temples...
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