The Hindu : `Culture should keep pace with changing times'

Online edition of India's National Newspaper
Tuesday, Feb 18, 2003

Southern States

Southern States - Karnataka

`Culture should keep pace with changing times'

By Our Staff Correspondent

BIJAPUR FEB. 17 . The noted poet, Channaveer Kanavi, said here on Monday that a culture would prove to be a bane to society if it remained stagnant.

Inaugurating the "Samskriti Sammelan", jointly organised by the Kannada Adhyayana Peetha of Karnatak University, Dharwad, and BLDE Arts and Science College, Bijapur, here he said a well-accepted custom of yesteryear might not be of same values in the successive years.

He said that a culture, considered to be good by a section of society, might not be good for others. Values changed from persons to person, from society to society, from region to region, and from time to time.

A culture would be more meaningful if it kept pace with the changing times. Culture was a continuous process of exchanging values, and it did not have barriers of language and region.

He said a language could not grow beyond a certain limit if it formed barrier around it. Kannada language should absorb positive aspects from the other languages, he said.

The noted historian, Shadakshari Shettar, who spoke on "Karnataka beyond its border", said the Kannadigas living away from their motherland had more concern about their mother-tongue and culture.

On the row over the border dispute, he said he preferred status quo. There might be discrepancies while reorganising the States on the basis of languages but there was no point in raking up the issue.

Referring to the partition of Indian Subcontinent that gave birth to Pakistan, he strongly defended that division was done on the basis of religion. If Pakistan, including Bangladesh, were not created then the present-day socio-economic problem of the country would have been worst. Whatever happened on the eve of Independence was for the sake of good, Mr. Shettar said.

The Principal of the BLDE Arts and Science College, M.V. Surpur, welcomed the gathering. The Chairman of the Kannada Adhyayana Peetha, Karnatak University, V.B. Rajur, spoke.

B.B. Biradar introduced the guests. Rajendra Nayak compered the programme.

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