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Dialogue is the halfway rule of democracy, arsenic it accommodates tolerance, statement and dissent alike, thinker Bargur Ramachandrappa has said.
Delivering the 96th lecture organised by the Jayadevitai Ligade Pratishtana successful collaboration with Basavakalyan Engineering College present connected Sunday, Mr. Ramachandrappa spoke connected “Kannada Literature: Equality and Harmony”.
He said that harmony emerges from the coexistence of plurality and unity and lit plays a important relation successful upholding this balance.
Lamenting the shrinking abstraction betwixt crushed and provocation and betwixt information and falsehood, helium said that Kannada lit has historically opposed caste hierarchies, sex favoritism and societal exclusion.
“Tradition is dynamic, portion normal tends to beryllium rigid. Culture often embodies some question and inertia astatine the aforesaid time,” helium observed.
Stating that lit becomes the dependable of its times whenever equality and societal harmony are threatened, Mr. Ramachandrappa urged writers and readers to presume this responsibility.
Kannada, helium noted, has been shaped collectively by Jains, Lingayats, Brahmins and Christians, making it inherently inclusive and egalitarian.
Referring to Vachana literature, helium said that it gained wider literate designation lone aft the 1970s, pursuing which it began to beryllium studied from aggregate perspectives.
“Vachanakaras shaped the Kannada intelligence tradition,” helium said and highlighted concepts specified arsenic “the assemblage arsenic the temple” and “work arsenic worship” arsenic transformative ideas that democratised devotion.
He besides underlined that quality itself does not recognise hierarchies.
“Just arsenic a sandalwood histrion and a thorny shrub are arsenic important successful nature, harmony lies successful affectional unity and taste plurality,” helium said.
Participating arsenic main guest, Vice-Chancellor of Bidar University B.S. Biradar said that Kannada lit consistently teaches lessons of equality and harmony and this needs to beryllium reinterpreted successful modern contexts.
Director of Jayadevitai Ligade Pratishtana Bhimasankar Biradar, Basavakalyan Engineering College Principal Ashok Kumar Vanagire, Vice-Principal Arun Kumar Yalal, histrion Akanksha Bargur and respective scholars and writers were present.
