This rampant westernisation of our thinking has to stop. We must be rooted in our culture at every level, in every way. There is no glory in being poor photo-copies of the West. This is Avidyamaya and we must shun it. Our whole nervous system has to be cleansed of this western corruption and we must stand secure on our feet as a people with Indian ideas of civilisation and Indian ideas of culture that is free of western contamination or pretension of any sort and is pristine pure without a trace of delusive Maya misleading our terrestrial course.
The lowest elements of western life we have absorbed for slaves we are culturally today by colonised conception. Of course, this holds true only for the English-educated population but this western virus is now spreading through the people at large through the infatuating media of cinema which is the channel of worst western corruption. Absorption of the best elements of other cultures is always welcome but if must be done around the core culture of the land. Blind imitation or infatuated absorption of foreign elements is ever the cause of cultural decadence and so is the state in India today.
The British have left India over seven decades ago but their decadent legacy they have left behind in the shape of millions of servile Anglophiles who are vitiating the urban culture with their colonised mindset. And added to that today are the countless Indians who dream of making America (USA, specifically) their home. D. L. Ray in vain, it seems, had sung 'আমার এই দেশেতে জন্ম যেন, এই দেশেতেই মরি |' ('I have been born in this land. May I die in this land as well !') This alien habitat, this colonised mindset, this cultural uprooting of self and transplantation in a western cultural set-up, this mimicking of the white man and his habits, this loss of self-dignity, this self-debasement, this utter loss of everything that for millenia we have held dear -- is this the way ahead? Is this the path of our national revival?
Written by Sugata Bose
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