“The India-Cambodia connection”, Esamskriti, June, 2017:
“In their anxiety to win the frenetic ‘fastest growing economy’ race, most Indians have forgotten the strong cultural roots they share with several oriental countries. Among them, Cambodia tops the list. Here, in the verdant wilderness of deep tropical forests – dotted with water-rich rivers and lakes – stands the fabulous city of Angkor. With its magnificently proportioned Hindu and Buddhist temples, terraces, pavilions, sculptured libraries and galleries, Angkor takes us into the womb of time when anonymous artists created some of the world’s best artistic monuments over a period of almost a thousand years!
India’s colonial past has created a mindset in which we think that progress is equivalent to the Western way of life. It could probably be because of India’s colonial past. As a people, we are joined to Britain by an unseen umbilical cord, which turns our faces Westward each time we think of progress.
It could also be that in our frantic search for modern materialism and progress, we have lost the true connotations of the words ‘history and roots’. We have become addicted to technology and live in the unreal world of computers rather than hark back to our cultural motifs, which link us to other parts of the world – especially, many countries and cultures of the Orient…..”
Read the full article at Esamskriti.com
