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`Different traditions can result in conflict of aspirations'

Staff Reporter

BANGALORE: India has been a multi-centred civilisation celebrating the same heritage in more than one way, be it language, history, or mythology, the Jnanpith Award-winner U.R. Ananthamurthy said here today.

Delivering a lecture on "The many Indias and a search for a centre", at the Centre for Contemporary Studies, Indian Institute of Science, Prof. Ananthamurthy said an example was the Ramayana. India had at least two "texts" of this enduring epic — the text that the literate India inherits, and the other oral text that travels the unlettered Indians' road, each with its own nuances and textures. The illiterate have a language culture of their own, quite apart from the language used by the literate and in this age of globalisation, the conflict of traditions can lead to a conflict of aspirations, according to him.

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