Wings of art and music

Wings of art and music, like colorful birds of various kinds, fly high or dance beautifully or peck or preen or bury their heads in sand or ...are based on the expressions and imaginations of the artist, each having his or her own style or splendor or depth of expressions.

Therefore, unfortunately, purely for the Western academic-oriented thinking, which tends to interpret and extrapolate everything or rather tries to confine everything to dichotomous labeled wings—right wing or left wing. 

Doesn't this stereotyped labelling of anything from politics to trade to commerce to economics to culture and art undiagnosed diseases, which cannot describe anything 'beyond the closed circuits or labels of right and left', prevent people from seeing the glorious splendours beyond, besides, and between these narrow labels? 

Do we need to always label anything and everything? Why not just go with the flow and enjoy? Or everything can be classified under specific labels always.¹

From an artist's perspective, it is to enjoy and express his joy; from a rasika's perspective, it is to enjoy either with or without the technical knowledge; and from a critic's perspective, it is to analyze and to criticize to enhance the art and artist and explain to the public who are going to read those reviews. 

No one asks a film or fashion reviewer in any magazine to classify them as per the standards or labels of any traditional Indian attire. 

Incidentally, many would also like to get enlightened about pure LEFT-wing music. 

Music is music, and like every other art form, it has its own wings. 

Let the hypernarrative manufacturing factories' inspired evaluations refrain from certain unhealthy *attaching of wings (either right or left) to any and every domain, and let the domain and its practitioners soar high in their own way rather than distracting everyone with sour interpretations and extrapolations.

*1.

The following are CURD-based food items in South India, which, hence, may be classified as dairy products, but why should those enjoying these food items with their existing recipes, ingredients, and preparation be keen on trying to classify them as fermented items or dairy products or pre-cheese or post-cheese? 

In South India alone we have the following that come to my mind; if I have time, I can make a lexicon.

Raita

Pachdi

Morekolambu

Majjigehuli Karanataka style

Aviyal 

Bread instant dahi vada

Curd rice Koozh (fermented cooked ragiporridge ) with buttermilk is a popular summer breakfast in Tamil Nadu.

Ragi ambli with buttermilk in Karnataka: beaten rice in curd (mosaravalakki)

Vermicelli in Curd (Mosaru Shavige)

Curd Upma

Dahi sabudana

Masalamajjige (spicy buttermilk) 

Lassi, 

Neermore/neerumajjige (watery buttermilk)

Shrikand from highly fermented, slightly sour-tasting curd.

Tambli

Kachiyamore/More curry of Kerala

Mosarubajji of potato/sweet potato kadi

Majjigesaru

Majjigemenasu or moremilagai (green chili soaked in buttermilk and then sundried and deep-fried in oil like papad)

Taiyrvada/mosaru vada/dahivada

Rava idli,

Poha Idli using curd

Golibaje or mangalore bonda (maida + curd mix)

 

*2. Healthy wings are needed to soar beyond unhealthy narratives of the left wing or right wing.

It is unhealthy to carry on with existing narratives in politics and media.

It is unhealthy if humanity does not realize that it needs sanity more than any particular identity.

It is unhealthy if political and media narratives—while inevitably using some identity-based steps—tend to stop or to slip or to slide down rather than climb up with sanity.

It is unhealthy when debates and discussions resort to visceral vitriol vindicated by the votaries of identity politics of various hues, colors, and ideologies.

It is unhealthy because the self-proclaimed representatives of the masses, through either the left-wing praxis of pseudo-liberal appropriations and assigning of labels or virulent, feverish provocations by right-wing advocates, dominate the narratives.

It is unhealthy to stuff such approaches and extrapolations to everything that the free birds of discourse and the splendorous feathers of aesthetic creations can never take flight and soar into realms of any sane unbiased zones, as it will be left overburdened with the weight of one wing and right away pulled by the overbearing of another wing.

It is unhealthy when both groups slide into snide dismissals rather than direct arguments.

It is unhealthy if we do not realize that the present practical difficulties faced by individuals and societies need solutions and not seeking endorsement by or to be sanctified by any specific ideology, however great or good that may be.

It is unhealthy that militancy without being curtailed is made to move from a mere posture into a well-organized program.

It is unhealthy that radicalism without being admonished outright gets rewarded.

It is unhealthy if we are not aware that in human history to date no single ideology or institution or inscription of an individual can be defined as some panacea that can claim to offer a tailor-made template but with a universal cure-all, correct-all, comfort-all solution embedded in it!

It is unhealthy if we do not realize that the human race is far more than the opportunities it is consciously aware of, as Jean Paul Sartre provides the example of the young man who puts his hand on his first date's hand. She, who does not really know him yet, must either leave her hand there or remove it. Either choice reveals something not part of her consciousness. We are far more than the limited opportunities present in the world.

It is unhealthy when we either deny or defy the importance of anyone or anything or any ideology, as each may have evolved to fulfill a specific need and may fit in some gap in the jigsaw puzzle called life.

It is unhealthy if we are not sensible to not hurt the sensitivities of others.

It is unhealthy not to be open to a wide variety of ideas and observations from a multitude of sources, and nothing stops us from planning to properly relate to everyone and everything to facilitate the understanding of the meaning of life.

It is unhealthy if we do not know that the meaning of life, which is, after all, the result of the churning of the outer world by the inner self or the way the inner self relates to the outer world in all its multiple manifestations.

 

 

 

It is unhealthy if we do not realize that our inner self is a combination of heart (body), mind (conscious awareness), and soul. The heart itself is wonderfully referred to as "HRUDAYA" in Sanskrit, which is one of the most perfect terms to indicate both the physical and psychological functionality of the heart. Meaning of "Hrudaya" from the Bruhadaranya Upanishad: 'Hru' means to bring. This involves bringing impure blood from the body to the heart. "Da" means to give and involves giving pure blood to the body. "Ya" means to set right all the activities and maintain the stability of the body. 

It is unhealthy if we do not realize the inevitable fact of life, and the stark reality is that whatever we may have planned or are planning to plan may not be the plan that unfolds in life in all spheres of life, irrespective of whatever label we may give to such a state of affairs, such as fate or destiny, or we may wish and try to ignore it or work hard to justify it. This does not mean or need not necessarily lead to the conclusion that we must not plan and that there is no use in planning.

Healthy conditions can be planned and programmed if those scripting any political narrative realize to do away with the outdated dichotomy of Left and Right because life, especially socio-cultural and economic life, has many dimensions, each having its own dynamics, and in addition, there are also those emanating from intersectionality and interactions, and all of these manifest themselves with varying degrees of intensity. Fortunately, life and all its concomitant evolutions happen despite and beyond the blinkered narratives peddled by status quo addicts of trite dichotomies and have made visible various options between, besides, beneath, and above those dichotomies, and these may strengthen the wings and enable the discourse to soar into unbiased zones and offer some solutions to many present-day problems faced by humanity.