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THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, JAN. 6. Classics do not belong to the past. They hold relevance even for the present generation, the poet K. Ayyappa Panikkar has said. He was delivering the Raja Ram Mohan Roy Memorial Lecture-2004 on `Going back is out of question: Reflections on self-renewal and retrieval in literary culture' here this evening. The lecture was conducted by the Raja Ram Mohan Roy Library Foundation. Every new reading is an attempt to retrieve at least a part of the original. Even a translation could be considered as retrieval of a text in a language other than the original, he said. There could be some texts that survive today only in translation. In the case of a work like Ramayana, which exists today as a multiple text with infinite variations, it is difficult to attribute originality to any one of the versions. To prioritise any version would be to misrepresent the nature of the ancient text that had evolved from fragments, scattered in folklore, he said. Ramayana is a text that can stand any amount of deconstruction. It is protected by its protean character. "It is immortal and faces perpetual retrieval," he said.
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