Re: Living in the past...
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Originally Posted by jaiganes
I say, We might have had a glorious past. However we had enough poison to spoil everything. Should we be proud of our ancient heritage or in our modern outlook where we run extra mile an extra hour everyday to catch up with the fast progressing modern world? Tell me friends where do you want to be? in ancient Bharath or modern India?
JG,
at the outset, congrats! :D Wish u a happy married life (btw, pardon my curiosity- idhu luv-a arranged-a?? :wink: )
OK....coming to ur qsn., no doubt u've posed a very thought-provoking qsn. indeed!
And personally, my answer has/is/will always be- to be in "modern" India by all means (not poss' to go back to "ancient Bharath" neways, unless u got a time-machine :wink: )......but also preserve/maintain watever important and beneficial aspects of our culture tat we know of and find to be leading us in a right path......and maintain a balance between the two! :wink:
Thus this will ensure tat while we still hav to "run an extra mile an extra hour to catch up w/ the progressive modern world", we shall also not belittle our significant and/or unique traditions and other cultural aspects in the name of "keeping up with the changing world" or "making progress"......only to ultimately turn ourselves into a "rootless society" as aptly described by Cinefan! :D
A couple of quotes tat I incidentally remembered- "Open ur arms to change but don't let go of ur values."
"U can shed ur leaves but not ur roots."
A very important thing tat the present/future gens. must understand!