On 5/17/07, Shyam Visweswaran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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.
Yet that doesn't seem to stop the current self-appointed moral police. Where does their vision of "Traditional Indian Culture" come from? Certainly not from any uncertainty, ambiguity, or possibility of diversity. It seems suspiciously similar to other hateful, intolerant, anti-sex attitudes we've seen. The explanation seems pretty self evident. -- Charles
