The Kashi-Tamil Sangamam – the brand new Agastheeyam

The material of Indian historical past has enchanted the fabulous with a finer mix of drama, mythology, reality and philosophy. The historical Indian texts corresponding to Panini’s Astadhyayi, Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras, and Bharata’s Natyashastra and plenty of extra historical Indian texts provide ample proof to those interspersions. The fascinating interpolation of fable into historical past is present in its definitive topographical distinction of our nation, which was known as Jambudvipa in our scriptures. The two giant geographical demarcations of the northern and southern elements of our nation, which configure as “Aryavarta” and “Vindhyaachal,” within the scriptures, have been for the primary time defied by Agasthya Muni, a celebrated sage from north India, who crossed the indignantly excessive Vindhyas to journey to south India, the Dakshinapath, to indicate the bigger terrain of the nation as an indivisible entire. The fable connotes the unified psyche of the nation to keep up its distinctive historic and cultural material, when a bigger query hangs round to drop its uncertain veil on the nation’s divisibility by way of area, language, ethnicity, tradition and faith.

The Kashi-Tamil Sangamam is a masterly initiative by Prime Minister Narendra Modi which tacitly carries this historic and mythological denominator to co-mingle the guts of the north and the throb of the south in re-scripting and re-writing historical past, this time minus fable, in his New Agastheeyam (story of the trendy sage). The initiative is a well timed effort to reassert the newly outlined political stability of the nation below a management shunning the claims of blue blood. It is a louder assertion to trace on the nation’s irreversible march within the financial, political, cultural and social spheres, which coincides with the nation’s sovereign ascent to writ giant its redoubtable arrival on the world stage in assuming the G-20 Presidency in early December.

This newly enhanced picture gained a festive temper via the cultural confluence of the Kashi-Tamil Sangamam, which is a redoubtable assertion of the nation’s world ascendancy. The international coverage has emerged from its former self of neutrality to face out with a daring affirmation of nationwide priorities, a self-assertion to face out within the comity of countries. It is the time that the identical sovereign conduct within the exterior affairs discovered its new complementarity and reflection within the nation’s inside issues, which wanted an pressing intervention to uphold the time-defying sense of unity, which is deeply embedded within the historic and cultural interactions within the nation’s geography.  This inbred dormant consciousness of the trendy generations wants solely a reminder and a proper context to parade its reminiscences encrypted in historical past that information the timeless cultural and social exchanges in completely happy co-existence.

The Kashi-Tamil Sangamam is essentially the most notable initiative to revisit these frequent and entwined historic and cultural interactions within the annals of literature, artwork, historical past and tradition of the nation. The identify encapsulates in three phrases a historical past spanning 1000’s of centuries. The Sangam Age in Tamil Nadu was the golden age of literature the place litterateurs and literature have been celebrated and honoured with few parallels.

The Prime Minister has set private examples by quoting from historical past and literature on the Sangamam. The success of the occasion could be seen in the truth that Tamil language has been highlighted, and teach-yourself-Tamil books have been flying off the shelf. There is a larger consciousness of tradition as there was a brand new consciousness of the similarities and ties between the 2 elements of the nation. There are innumerable locations within the North and South named after cities in both areas. There is a Madurai in Tamil Nadu after Mathura within the North. Tenkashi  is a Tamil city.

The Kashi-Tamil Sangamam captions a historical past of centuries, a civilization that has an unbroken existence to rise above the onslaughts of time, the wrath of nature and the vehemence of spiteful invasions. Indian religious texts and folklore stand as a dwell witness to Kashi’s elevated and decorative descriptions as a holy website of the divine, which is deeply rooted throughout the Indian geographies. The thought in its excessive sense has made Kashi, a selected vacation spot to undress this carnal existence to have a simple confluence with the divine soul. “On the Ganga Ghat” is a group of quick tales by Raja Rao, one among the many ‘huge three” writers of Indian writings in English, hailing from Karnataka.

These tales encapsulate the concept to painting the bodily longing of individuals residing on the Ganga ghat, who tirelessly search to embrace demise, which symbolizes the ecstasy to depart the prisoned physique to hunt the eternity in spirituality. The city of Kashi is surrounded by mysticism and surprise, which additionally evokes awe within the collective consciousness of the nation. “Kashi Majili Kathalu” (The Stories on the Way to Kashi), written by Madhira Subbanna Deekshita Kavi from Andhra Pradesh have been the bed-time luxuries to the kids instructed by their grandparents. These tales have been the narrations of the individuals, who go on foot to pay a holy go to to Kashi from the South.

The Bhakti Movement, a non secular reform motion had its pervasive affect throughout the nation. With its origin in Tamil Nadu in sixth century AD, the Bhakti motion preached to develop a deep devotion to a deity for a mystical union with the God, which occurred in varied regional types, however sustaining a commonality of religious looking for. This motion, additional, enhanced the social and cultural transactions between the north and the south in a periodical assertion of their oneness.

Perhaps it’s related to say right here that a minimum of eight main temples from Kedarnath within the North to Rameswaram within the South are aligned in a straight line of 790 longitudes. This couldn’t have been an accident, however this cosmic verticality is a contented reaffirmation of a line of unbroken affinity. It is to this historical heritage that marks Indian civilisation that the Kashi-Tamil Sangamam evokes. A residing custom, cherished and admired throughout the nation is now focusing once more on historical connections which have frequent kinship. The timing is important.

The historic and cultural currents that move from one area to the opposite will get an additional enhance with this Kashi-Tamil Sangamam meet. This inspiring step by the Government will make each Indian proud and enhance their sense of participation and stake within the nation and its future. Needless to say that the Prime Minister has scripted a “New Agastheeyam,” a saga retold to the younger generations concerning the thickly interwoven cultural strands of the nation, and reminded the aged of a contented future, which is secure within the fingers of their successors guarded by a super management.

What generally is a higher step in the direction of this than the Sangamam that seamlessly brings collectively the previous and the current, the agricultural and the city? And what’s extra, an historical metropolis has performed host to up to date occasion. Our modernity is rooted in our historical heritage, as at all times. The Sangamam is a exceptional step on this lengthy journey, taking because it does from the previous, and indicating a path to the long run to come back.

 Professor E Suresh Kumar is Commission Member, University Grants Commission, New Delhi and likewise the Vice Chancellor, The English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad, Shillong, and Lucknow.

The material of Indian historical past has enchanted the fabulous with a finer mix of drama, mythology, reality and philosophy. The historical Indian texts corresponding to Panini’s Astadhyayi, Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras, and Bharata’s Natyashastra and plenty of extra historical Indian texts provide ample proof to those interspersions. The fascinating interpolation of fable into historical past is present in its definitive topographical distinction of our nation, which was known as Jambudvipa in our scriptures. The two giant geographical demarcations of the northern and southern elements of our nation, which configure as “Aryavarta” and “Vindhyaachal,” within the scriptures, have been for the primary time defied by Agasthya Muni, a celebrated sage from north India, who crossed the indignantly excessive Vindhyas to journey to south India, the Dakshinapath, to indicate the bigger terrain of the nation as an indivisible entire. The fable connotes the unified psyche of the nation to keep up its distinctive historic and cultural material, when a bigger query hangs round to drop its uncertain veil on the nation’s divisibility by way of area, language, ethnicity, tradition and faith.

The Kashi-Tamil Sangamam is a masterly initiative by Prime Minister Narendra Modi which tacitly carries this historic and mythological denominator to co-mingle the guts of the north and the throb of the south in re-scripting and re-writing historical past, this time minus fable, in his New Agastheeyam (story of the trendy sage). The initiative is a well timed effort to reassert the newly outlined political stability of the nation below a management shunning the claims of blue blood. It is a louder assertion to trace on the nation’s irreversible march within the financial, political, cultural and social spheres, which coincides with the nation’s sovereign ascent to writ giant its redoubtable arrival on the world stage in assuming the G-20 Presidency in early December.

This newly enhanced picture gained a festive temper via the cultural confluence of the Kashi-Tamil Sangamam, which is a redoubtable assertion of the nation’s world ascendancy. The international coverage has emerged from its former self of neutrality to face out with a daring affirmation of nationwide priorities, a self-assertion to face out within the comity of countries. It is the time that the identical sovereign conduct within the exterior affairs discovered its new complementarity and reflection within the nation’s inside issues, which wanted an pressing intervention to uphold the time-defying sense of unity, which is deeply embedded within the historic and cultural interactions within the nation’s geography.  This inbred dormant consciousness of the trendy generations wants solely a reminder and a proper context to parade its reminiscences encrypted in historical past that information the timeless cultural and social exchanges in completely happy co-existence.

The Kashi-Tamil Sangamam is essentially the most notable initiative to revisit these frequent and entwined historic and cultural interactions within the annals of literature, artwork, historical past and tradition of the nation. The identify encapsulates in three phrases a historical past spanning 1000’s of centuries. The Sangam Age in Tamil Nadu was the golden age of literature the place litterateurs and literature have been celebrated and honoured with few parallels.

The Prime Minister has set private examples by quoting from historical past and literature on the Sangamam. The success of the occasion could be seen in the truth that Tamil language has been highlighted, and teach-yourself-Tamil books have been flying off the shelf. There is a larger consciousness of tradition as there was a brand new consciousness of the similarities and ties between the 2 elements of the nation. There are innumerable locations within the North and South named after cities in both areas. There is a Madurai in Tamil Nadu after Mathura within the North. Tenkashi  is a Tamil city.

The Kashi-Tamil Sangamam captions a historical past of centuries, a civilization that has an unbroken existence to rise above the onslaughts of time, the wrath of nature and the vehemence of spiteful invasions. Indian religious texts and folklore stand as a dwell witness to Kashi’s elevated and decorative descriptions as a holy website of the divine, which is deeply rooted throughout the Indian geographies. The thought in its excessive sense has made Kashi, a selected vacation spot to undress this carnal existence to have a simple confluence with the divine soul. “On the Ganga Ghat” is a group of quick tales by Raja Rao, one among the many ‘huge three” writers of Indian writings in English, hailing from Karnataka.

These tales encapsulate the concept to painting the bodily longing of individuals residing on the Ganga ghat, who tirelessly search to embrace demise, which symbolizes the ecstasy to depart the prisoned physique to hunt the eternity in spirituality. The city of Kashi is surrounded by mysticism and surprise, which additionally evokes awe within the collective consciousness of the nation. “Kashi Majili Kathalu” (The Stories on the Way to Kashi), written by Madhira Subbanna Deekshita Kavi from Andhra Pradesh have been the bed-time luxuries to the kids instructed by their grandparents. These tales have been the narrations of the individuals, who go on foot to pay a holy go to to Kashi from the South.

The Bhakti Movement, a non secular reform motion had its pervasive affect throughout the nation. With its origin in Tamil Nadu in sixth century AD, the Bhakti motion preached to develop a deep devotion to a deity for a mystical union with the God, which occurred in varied regional types, however sustaining a commonality of religious looking for. This motion, additional, enhanced the social and cultural transactions between the north and the south in a periodical assertion of their oneness.

Perhaps it’s related to say right here that a minimum of eight main temples from Kedarnath within the North to Rameswaram within the South are aligned in a straight line of 790 longitudes. This couldn’t have been an accident, however this cosmic verticality is a contented reaffirmation of a line of unbroken affinity. It is to this historical heritage that marks Indian civilisation that the Kashi-Tamil Sangamam evokes. A residing custom, cherished and admired throughout the nation is now focusing once more on historical connections which have frequent kinship. The timing is important.

The historic and cultural currents that move from one area to the opposite will get an additional enhance with this Kashi-Tamil Sangamam meet. This inspiring step by the Government will make each Indian proud and enhance their sense of participation and stake within the nation and its future. Needless to say that the Prime Minister has scripted a “New Agastheeyam,” a saga retold to the younger generations concerning the thickly interwoven cultural strands of the nation, and reminded the aged of a contented future, which is secure within the fingers of their successors guarded by a super management.

What generally is a higher step in the direction of this than the Sangamam that seamlessly brings collectively the previous and the current, the agricultural and the city? And what’s extra, an historical metropolis has performed host to up to date occasion. Our modernity is rooted in our historical heritage, as at all times. The Sangamam is a exceptional step on this lengthy journey, taking because it does from the previous, and indicating a path to the long run to come back.

 Professor E Suresh Kumar is Commission Member, University Grants Commission, New Delhi and likewise the Vice Chancellor, The English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad, Shillong, and Lucknow.