In the last two days; two people have raised the same question incidentally over our conversation on the practice of architecture in India.
"What essentially has India contributed in the last 500 years to world culture?"
Shinkre sir said that most of what we have produced is in the ancient ages. Referring to the practice of architecture, he questioned if we have been able to produce even a single exemplar building in the period after independence that we can look up to?
Diagonally substantiating it, Chaitanya critially pointed out that our discussion of architectural critique only falls within that limited cultural range of golden age. We have only been able to contribute what our great old forefathers did. There is hardly any thing intellectually culturally that the recent generations have given to the world that becomes a part of a global discussion.
I am not able to recall detailed discussions that we have had. I shall ask both, Shinkre sir and Chaitanya to elaborate and see if they can substantiate this dialogue further.
But the only thing that I kept recalling in the above context (see if you can find the clip with the preceding dialogue that instigates this song) - which may not be enough - is the following clip. And that is what Chaitanya criticises:
"What essentially has India contributed in the last 500 years to world culture?"
Shinkre sir said that most of what we have produced is in the ancient ages. Referring to the practice of architecture, he questioned if we have been able to produce even a single exemplar building in the period after independence that we can look up to?
Diagonally substantiating it, Chaitanya critially pointed out that our discussion of architectural critique only falls within that limited cultural range of golden age. We have only been able to contribute what our great old forefathers did. There is hardly any thing intellectually culturally that the recent generations have given to the world that becomes a part of a global discussion.
I am not able to recall detailed discussions that we have had. I shall ask both, Shinkre sir and Chaitanya to elaborate and see if they can substantiate this dialogue further.
But the only thing that I kept recalling in the above context (see if you can find the clip with the preceding dialogue that instigates this song) - which may not be enough - is the following clip. And that is what Chaitanya criticises:
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