IN RESPONSE TO ANAND RANGANATHAN'S BRIEF AND BEAUTIFUL SPEECH ON OUR CIVILISATIONAL ETHOS

IN RESPONSE TO ANAND RANGANATHAN'S BRIEF AND BEAUTIFUL SPEECH ON OUR CIVILISATIONAL ETHOS

Brilliant writing, well read out. Everything fine except one point. "I am but a bunch of cells, today there, tomorrow gone." This statement is a materialistic one quite antithetical to our civilisational ethos which is fundamentally spiritual. This strikes at the very root of our whole Sanatan idea and ideal of the Divine, the Self, the Atman, the Brahman, the Adyashakti, Mahamaya, Ishvar et al and renders the talk hollow philosophically and in historical terms. Otherwise, this is a beautiful rendition indeed, delivered in delectable diction. Anand Ranganathan like Vinayak Savarkar is a cultural Hindu but an atheist at that. He openly avows his materialistic take on life, being an evolutionary scientist and subscribing to its tenets.

Written by Sugata Bose