Re: Culture in the last 100 years -

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C. Kambhampati wrote:
> 
> Here is an article entitled
> 
> "A living National Treasure"
> 
> It has bearings on what we were discussing on another thread.
> 
> (and it reflects the amount literature (and culture) has impinged on our
> lives - both left and right sections here and it makes me want to cry
> and laugh, has one can only become a cynic for one can see such a
> situatiion occuring everywhere in India nad Andhra).
> 
> regards
> Chandrasekhar
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------

> Hazare's life has a romance about it. 
[rest of the story cut for brevity]

That was a great and inspiring story that was long on what and short on
how.
How was the change in ATTITUDE achieved? Because, that was the key to
the miracle.

Also, if this story has a bearing on the previous discussion on this
thread,
it escapes me.  I fail to see how an appreciation of culture (or
literature)
is a hindrance to reforms such as the one described.  If there is a
moral to
this story, it is that reform begins with a change in attitudes at the
grass
root level and cannot be mandated by government spending priorities.
Sree
kambhampati's harrangue appears to assume that all literary endeavor is
wasteful
and misdirected.  I submit that literature and culture are not the
dominion
of well-fed alone!

Regards,

paaNini

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