India can never be a nation with only one culture or language pervading its social life as we have been influenced by many diverse civilisations across centuries, Kerala Sahitya Akademi president and poet K. Satchidanandan has said.
He was here on Sunday to deliver a lecture titled ‘Challenges to India’s cultural pluralism’ in memory of late filmmaker and cultural critic ‘Chintha’ Ravi.
Mr. Satchidanandan pointed out that mainly four points were being propagated by Hindutva proponents to prove the “uniformity” of our country. “One is that India belongs to Hindus. Two, India is a country of Aryans. The third is to make Hindi a common language for everyone and fourth is the presence of a singular cultural tradition,” he said.
