The “rediscovery of India” should start with rereading the works of people like Mahatma Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru, and Swami Vivekananda, former Union Minister Mani Shankar Aiyar has said.
He was here on Wednesday to attend a seminar on ‘Rediscovery of India’ held in memory of late Leftist thinker M.N. Vijayan. The event was organised by Kozhikode-based M.N. Vijayan Samskarika Kendram.
Nehru had said that the military history of India was of conquests, Mr. Aiyar pointed out. “But the cultural history of India, Nehru said, is of looking at what has come from outside, choosing what you like of it, integrating into the tradition, and thereby evolving this culture, which is what we call Indian culture,” he said.
