--- Udhay Shankar N <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Charles Haynes wrote: [ on 02:38 PM 5/17/2007 ]
>
> >>so, what happened? I keep thinking about this
> -- how did we go from
> >>kama sutra -> shiv sainiks beating up couples
> on Valentine's day for
> >>holding hands?
> >
> >I blame the Raj. Damn Victorians and their
> cultural imperialism.
>
> It is fascinating how all of this gets done in
> the name of "Indian culture".
>
> Udhay
What exactly are the confines of Indian culture?
There is no ancient unified Indian arts,
architecture, literature or language that is
representative of the entire Indian subcontinent.
Indian is an abstraction that is too coarse to be
of much use here. For all we know the kama sutra
was glorified in one kingdom in ancient India and
banned in another. Or freedom of expression was
widely allowed in one kingdom and not in another
or the same kingdom may have cycled through
liberal and conservative periods.
shyam
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