“Every child is born a universal human being. We make him or her a mean human being as he or she grows up. The task of education is to make him or her a universal human being again,” reads the English translation of Kuvempu’s idea of ‘Vishwamanava’ or ‘universal human being.’
The concept of Vishwamanava has been one of the most significant contributions of the revered poet and philosopher from Karnataka to the idea of modern India.
On the 50th anniversary of the renaming of Mysore State as Karnataka, civic rights group Bahutva Karnataka has come out with an ‘Alphabet series’ which aims to give people an insight into the state’s rich legacy of literature, diversity, and plurality, and how they contribute to the modern ideas of democracy.
