Indianness
Each race contributes something essential to the world's civilization in the course of its own self-expression and self-realization. The character built up in solving its own problems, in the experience of its own misfortunes, is itself a gift which each offers to the world. The essential contribution of India, then, is simply her Indianness; her great humiliation would be to substitute or to have substituted for this own character (svabhava) a cosmopolitan veneer, for then indeed she must come before the world empty-handed.
- What has India contributed to human welfare?, an essay by Ananda Coomaraswamy
Comment please :)
posted by cactusjump @ 2:02 AM
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6 Comments:
there's an e-mail forward running around
for ages answering just this question :)
I'll add yoga to the list.
If I undestood the question correctly, that is
I dunno... I'm not an indian but I have indian origins! So that's already a contribution to humanity?!
MAn!Too heavy for my poor mind right now. :-)
at the IFFI now?
Me was busy setting down after my relocation. Back now:-) *HUGS* Hope you doing good and refreshed!*HUGS*
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I don't know about welfare, but India sure as he'll has contributed a lot of Humans!
hope ur doin ok CJ. *tight hug*
I'd say that what India has contributed is the catholic nature of its society. We just absorb everything that is good (and sometimes the bad as well) from any culture that we come in contact with. And I see no contradiction with adopting a cosmopolitan veneer which would be only one more layer on the palimpsest that is Indian culture. Enriching it all the more.
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