The notions of past glory and our superiority as a 4000 year old ancient civilization exist in the abstract in our minds and are held very sacred and fiercely defended, through tokenisms. Sectarian politics and pressure groups that represent different castes and communities find them most convenient. But there is no real concrete concern for our dwindling inheritances – old historical manuscripts rotting in libraries, our flora and fauna, the heritage buildings and monuments abused with neglect and scarred with graffiti. Our “vernac” holds his 4000 years high like a trophy but is embarrassed of our immediate past – all that which went into the years of his growing up – so much so that he is in a tearing hurry to break the house down without even a viable and alternative blueprint of growth. - Excerpt from Our Ways Their Ways.(In my Notes section)
Posted on: Wed, 07 Jan 2015 20:51:29 +0000
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