Special Issue on Kavalam Narayana Panikkar( Sangeet Natak Vol. LV Numbers 1-4-2021)

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A National Treasure: Kavalam Narayana Panikkar

Interviewer: De you feel happy when you are reaching eighty years?

Panikkar Who told you I am eighty? Lam two thousand years old. Why is it two thousand years? Behind me the whole experience of two thousand years is there and I am continuing that, When you are in a continuity, you are in a stream, you have to represent all that is behind you. Time is a fleeting thing, it goes on like that. And your concept of time is personally decided depending on your own imagination. So the space-time continuum is to be associated with the Karma, your own work

An excerpt from KN. Panikkar's interview

This is the journey, philosophy and aesthetics of a poet, playwright, director, musicologist and scholar Kavalam Narayana Panikkar. From the above-mentioned words said by Panikkar, it cochades that he points to the future by embracing not only the cultural heritage and tradition of Kerala, but of entire India and also defines its philosophies and aesthetics in contemporary conditions. In fact, Panikkar was a component of this entire universe and became timeless by being steeped in the sense cultural heritage and tradition.

Search of Indian-ness Bharatatva and Panikkar

When India became independent after 150 long years of slavery, the first few questions that arose were

"What is the concept of India?

What is the nationalistic approach in post independent India?

And these initial questions were relevant not only at the political level but in every other aspect of India social, economic, cultural as well as spiritual, and at the same time these questions were significant in every field, and in fact, still is People of India were struggling for answers to these questions about their country and its citizens, regardless of gender, caste, community, class or religion However, there was also another important question.

"Where does India live? In the cities or the villages Gandhi Ji firmly believed that the development of villages should be prominent so that more attention could be given towards agriculture, leading to its development, for as much as our Agriculture develops, our culture would develop by itself.

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