BEATING THE WHEEL OF TIME

BEATING THE WHEEL OF TIME

How much of artistic output will stay, beating the ravages of time and the neglect of future generations, is difficult to gauge now but, as the Geeta says, we must work dispassionately without an eye to the fruits of our labour. What survives will survive to project our period to posterity who will thus gain an inkling as to how their predecessors were. Sure enough, the resolution of forces will cancel out most of our cultural produce of the day and history will record but a feeble fraction of our endeavours as the relayed output of our times to carry on the continuum of civilisation. Some of us, some part of us, some semblance of us will survive to outlive the dying preponderance of peoples' output as the centuries roll on.

Out of the ruins of the past then will be rebuilt the story of the past in hazy, inaccurate terms, what today is the palpable reality. So it will be then when we are gone and our future generations look up the album of their forefathers.

Written by

Sugata Bose

32Nilanjana Chakraborty, Susanta Mullick and 30 others

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