8 Vital Points for a new era beyond managers

8 Vital Points for a new era beyond managers

 I feel there is lot of wisdom in the following piece which Phenella writes in “The Unwritten Comedy”. “To be ignorant of many things is expected. To know you are ignorant of many things is the beginning of wisdom. To know a category of things of which you are ignorant is the beginning of learning. To know the details of that category of things of which you are ignorant is to no   longer be ignorant.” 

1. Inevitable laws: - Life’s evolutionary aspirations are tossed between repetitions and changes. “In the end nothing less than the whole of everything can be the truth of   anything at all”- William James. Life is an unmapped atlas which gets its maps based on our choices, beliefs, actions, reactions, thoughts, attitudes etc and it is our hands to make each one of these continents as great and as good as possible.

2. Bad, worse and worst:-So, any mental fixation in any domain is bad; status quo addiction to such fixations is worse and worst is to extrapolate anything and everything with such fixations is worst. “We live in a changing universe, and few things are changing faster than our conception of it”-Timothy Ferris. “There is no tomorrow. There is only a planet turning on its axis, and a creature given to optimistic fancies”-Robert Brault

3. We cannot deny or defy the importance of anything: - We cannot predict all emerging trends and therefore much less prepare for any change with a bunch of known factors as trend predictions is yet to evolve with scientific precision

4. Evolution is the final judge and it is a process:-Whatever terminology we may adopt or whatever vocabulary we use to define any emerging phenomenon or trend it is ultimately the play of evolution in the domain of organizational or administrative structure.

5. Contexts created by change change the characteristics of the contexts:-The most important wisdom is to make the necessary adjustments to emerging changes and contexts.

6. Civilization in its totality is nothing but evolving trends and trending changes:-

No individual life is permanent and nothing is a panacea for any aspect of living.

7. Value of vocabulary or words:- At any cost no one can afford to discount the value of vocabulary then it may cost a lot because words used in any context or domain are important as  they set the narrative and even influence thinking but we also need to look beyond and behind the connotations of the words.

8. The beauty of life: - It consists in the unknowns and the unending searches and researches –the unending process of evolutionary trends in everything.

We must remember that we owe to so many souls that have made our evolution to enhance from Kuru disease generators [this disease happens because of cannibalism] to cyber Guru Venerators.

 

Self correction and accepting change

Judicial interference in religious activities of faith that too selectively is bad. However, common sense and common good of all  forms of life and sensitive  concern toward s that must prevail  over everything else.

Like in everything else, religious activities too change is an inevitable component for evolutionary growth and development.

So, people involved in practicing certain traditions and rituals within the faith must start minimizing or giving lesser importance and wherever possible even do away with certain practices if they can hurt or harm other species and has greater probability of causing ,inconvenience, damage and danger to our own lives as well.

Neither the intensity of any faith nor the relevance of any religion may get reduced because of such self imposed disciplines.

Religions are a good mix of theories, dogmas, doctrines, rituals, traditions, scriptural dos and don'ts, sermons for better behavior, cultural entertainments, socio -cultural values, physical care, environmental care and nature worship.

Religions also have imparted many philosophical concepts meant to enhance human life imbued with humanitarian values; to improve social life imbued with compassionate values and to enlighten the spiritual life imbued with sensitivity to all forms of life. 

 

All of the above are influential, important, and impactful in varying degrees at different contexts.

Unfortunately most of them also have been subjected to multiple interpretations due to lack of empirical authentication or for want of documented evidences.

However, some of them are always relevant, time tested and useful for humanity.

It is good to want to adopt them or to appropriate them.

But then when they are done with some ulterior motives and manipulations and in some cases done because wanting to desperately appear relevant, or merely as an outcome of either ideological or traditional indoctrination then it deviates from all the seriousness and substance of religiosity and becomes a mere ritualistic perpetuation of another activity devoid of both its intrinsic essence and contextual relevance.

cricket,change and contextual craze

Why no other sport except Cricket attracts private sponsors... How can we change this?

My contention is why we need to change it.

There are some positions to take on any issue.

All of them need not necessarily be logically correct, legally perfect, morally approvable, and socially beneficial and so on.

But then the stake holders involved in it obviously opt for them and we must try to understand why?

Every religion, culture, region have a fancy for certain practices which they perform with immense energy and enthusiasm repeatedly which for any objective and rational observer may look puzzling, sometimes meaningless as well.

Every region and culture adopts certain types of food over the other available options, sometimes even better ones.

Similarly every nation or region gets glued to or has a fancy for particular sports and can go crazy forgetting everything else.

Sometimes certain sporting events unite people without any inhibition and also almost take them to a state of meditative intensity and involvement which is both relaxing and refreshing for everyone.

In the subcontinent it is cricket, incidentally introduced by the colonial rulers.

The human beings in the subcontinent as a species has collectively not only accepted but also fell in love and excelled in certain things that the colonial rulers had brought along.

These things the human race in the subcontinent did so because it felt its utility, charm, certain rational justifications too.

Among them are the dress of the westerners for its convenience [though not always suitable for the hot climate]; its language [namely English] because of the necessity to communicate beyond the borders to be understood]; its one sport Cricket due to its many splendors involving testing of mental and physical toughness with many rules with inbuilt immense scope for ‘glorious uncertainties’.

At present in India it has acquired such crazy following that it cannot be wished away and that need not be compared with lesser importance given to other sports.

In matters of taste, trends, traditions let us not look of socialistic justifications nor even attempt to sully them with such ideologies nor try to rationalize human behavior.

After victory of the favorite team the whole nation gets into riot mode but everyone enjoys it.

This riotous atmosphere is the result of overflow of joy and not out of protest or angst or revolution.

Every nation’s youth know the name of their favorite sports ‘icons’ they may not even know where, when and how that sport started and evolved.

It is because such a sport touches the pulse of the nation through the hearts of its supporters.

It is only logical and saner on the part of sponsors to invest their money there rather than in some activity which gets hardly noticed.

Fortunately commercial sponsors need not be driven by any extraneous compulsions.

As long as excessive adulation of one particular sport, one culture, and one type of music does not suffocate other sports, cultures, music etc in any particular space, nor cause harm to the very field of activity, in this case sports, nor harms humanity or environment in any way, then, there is no necessity to change solely because the majority of people cutting across all differences like it, love it and lap it up in its multiple forms.

Whereas, we must look at changing things in spheres like our film industry and media because they harm all modes of rationality and inject so much of negativity and stupidity in society.

CHANGE

                                                         CHANGE

There are certain universal mantras from which no one can veer away humanity’s preference they are change and the constantly changing context created by that change along with its many concomitant characters like comforts, convenience, benefits, utility, profit, happiness, pleasure etc.

All wisdom and value systems must be woven around these universal mantras or at least relevant to these. Otherwise something else will replace all values, wisdom, principles, practices etc.

The most important wisdom is to make the necessary adjustments to emerging changes and contexts

Time and change have become inevitable part of our life because through them, either as measuring tools or as describing our observations, we grasp or try to express and explain the inevitable metamorphosis of life.

The only reality is life unfolding itself constantly through various manifestations of metamorphosis.

All the rest are ambiences of life [as Jaggi Vasudevji says because there are dimensions of life beyond the logically definable parameters] or accretions that we choose to understand life.

First great biologist Darwin, I would prefer to call him the father of evolutionary biological science-who incidentally advocated the theory of natural selection, because he laid the first blue print for such a specialized study [some of them may be wrong or all of them could be disputed and radically changed], and he had the honesty and humility to declare, “Variation proposes and selection disposes.”

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/1997/oct/09/evolutionary-psychology-an-exchange/

Evolution goes about its jobs unmindful of whatever we do or do not do, that decides and determines everything including our birth and death as biochemical organisms which are bound decay or die or reorganize or reborn or recreate into something else eventually.

While innards and inherent qualities are inevitable and beyond our choice, at least, our utilization of strengths /reactions to shortcomings can be sane and more sensible, that is what must be the attempt of any subject be it philosophy, spiritual science or pure science.

Again talking about evolution, a very interesting and vast subject by its very meaning indicates the innards of all species with inevitable strengths as well as short comings, rather embedded contradictions. 

The best we can do with all our brains and technological advancements available at our disposal to minimize/compensate for our weaknesses like starting from using basic tools to using spectacles to implanting stunts and pace makers for heart problems to name a few.

As Guy Murchie declares, “Evolution itself is an open ended and indeterminate process”… “Given the remarkable progress in our understanding of biochemistry, molecular biology, and evolution as a whole … we have failed to develop concepts, ideas, even a language that could capture the dance of this life” 

Here is a list of very worthy articles available fortunately free on the 

net http://pinker.wjh.harvard.edu/articles/ [ incidentally I have all his works along with all the works of other evolutionary biologist like Richard Dawkins and the great Guy Murchie’s ‘ the Seven Mysteries of Life ‘ and I wish for a more comprehensive understanding one must also read Kathleen Taylor’s ‘The Brain Supremacy’ Walter Gratzer’s ‘Giant molecules’, Frank Close’s ‘The Infinity Puzzle’ and most importantly Tirumoolar’s Tirumanthiram,  Vilayanur S. RAMACHANDRAN and for a more sane philosophical and rational non religious outlook  also read Neale Donald  Walsch, JK, Osho, Bertrand Russell etc

http://contentwriteups.blogspot.in/2015/04/change-identity-fixation.html

http://contentwriteups.blogspot.in/2013/07/change.html

Change, Identity, Fixation

Very true the trite saying that the only thing that is constant is change. In every aspect of life and every age of life our priorities, perceptions, performance etc change as they must according to the context and/or situation . 

Most of our problems happen because of our uneasiness and unwillingness to make relevant adjustments because we have allowed ourselves to be caught in the web of  imagined fixations of identities nurtured  nonchalantly by society, culture, religion, ideologies etc. 

Only this morning some young bright person mailed me about a poem of his that got published in US. 

I wrote this to him 'life is a constant process of learning and adjustment but while doing both keep aside all prejudices, identities etc however well justified, deep rooted , magnified and projected, protected and presented they may be because only then we can see the intrinsic value and inherent attributes/merits of whatever we are learning about /evaluating and whomsoever we are trying to interact with'. 

Whole of humanity is susceptible to fall a prey to certain vulnerabilities especially when it comes to identities but what is wrong is when we proclaim only our brand of identity is superior to another.

From Kalidasa to Keats have conveyed  in subtle ways to make us not fall a prey to these vulnerabilities.

 As Keats writes, "Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard
Are sweeter: therefore, .......".                                                                            

 I feel there is lot of wisdom in the following piece which Phenella writes in “The Unwritten Comedy”.
“To be ignorant of many things is expected
To know you are ignorant of many things is the beginning of wisdom.
To know a category of things of which you are ignorant is the beginning of learning.
To know the details of that category of things of which you are ignorant is to no longer be ignorant.”    
                                                                                      http://contentwriteups.blogspot.in/2015/02/identity-crisis.html

Change... Change happens, that is for sure, and not just in our modern, 21st century era. It seems that the stress of the new affects most people in every age. So the trick is not to resist it, but to go with it. The real problem for the creative person is getting over the resistance of those who don’t want to change.  ‘Change in all things is sweet.’ — Aristotle ‘Loss is nothing else but change, and change is nature’s delight.’ — Marcus Aurelius ‘Keep constantly in mind in how many things you yourself have witnessed changes already. The universe is change, life is understanding.’ — Marcus Aurelius ‘Observe constantly that all things take place by change.’ — Marcus Aurelius ‘We must change in order to survive.’ — Pearl Bailey ‘To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.’ — Henri Bergson ‘If the people don’t want to come out of the park, nobody’s going to stop them.’ — Yogi Berra ‘Those who have changed the universe have never done it by changing officials, but always by inspiring the people.’ — Napoleon Boneparte ‘Nothing we can do can change the past, but everything we do changes the future.’ — Ashleigh Brilliant ‘If you can neither accept it or change it, try to laugh at it.’ — Ashleigh Brilliant ‘Weep not that the world changes—did it keep A stable, changeless state, it were cause indeed to weep.’ — William Bryant ‘Do not cherish the unworthy desire that the changeable might become the unchanging.’ — Gautama Buddha ‘The best-laid schemes o’mice an’ men gang aft agely.’ — Robert Burns ‘I am not now That which I have been.’ — George Byron ‘In order to learn one must change one’s mind.’ — Orson Scott Card ‘Things don’t change. You change your way of looking, that’s all.’ — Carlos Castaneda ‘A great wind is blowing and that gives you either imagination or a headache.’ — Catherine the Great ‘To improve is to change. To be perfect is to change often.’ — Winston Churchill ‘It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power.’ — Alan Cohen ‘They must often change who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.’ — Confucius ‘It is only the wisest and the stupidest that do not change.’ — Confucius ‘The capacity of the human mind for invention far outstrips its ability to assimilate the changes that inventions produce.’ — Darryl Conner ‘The only way to change our lives is by changing our minds.’ — Ross Cooper ‘The world’s a scene of changes, and to be constant in Nature were inconstancy.’ — Abraham Cowley ‘Become a student of change. It is the only thing that will remain constant.’ — Anthony J. D’Angelo ‘It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.’ — Charles Darwin ‘Since changes are going on anyway, the great thing is to learn enough about them so that we will be able to lay hold of them and turn them in the direction of our desires. Conditions and events are neither to be fled from nor passively acquiesced in; they are to be utilized and directed.’ — John Dewey ‘ In a progressive country change is constant; change is inevitable.’ — Benjamin Disraeli ‘One cannot manage change. One can only be ahead of it.’ — Peter F. Drucker ‘All is change; all yields its place and goes.’ — Euripedes ‘All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind is part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter into another.’ — Anatole France ‘When you’re finished changing, you’re finished.’ — Benjamin Franklin ‘You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.’ — Richard. Buckminster Fuller ‘In times of rapid change, experience could be your worst enemy.’ — J. Paul Getty ‘You must be the change you wish to see in the world.’ — Mahatma Gandhi ‘We must always change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden.’ — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ‘Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.’ — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ‘Life has got a habit of not standing hitched. You got to ride it like you find it. You got to change with it. If a day goes by that don’t change some of your old notions for new ones, that is just about like trying to milk a dead cow.’ — Woodie Guthrie ‘Everything flows and nothing abides; everything gives way and nothing stays fixed... Cool things become warm, the warm grows cool; the moist dries, the parched becomes moist... It is in changing that things find repose.’ — Heraclitus ‘Nothing is permanent but change.’ — Heraclitus ‘There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in travelling in a stagecoach, that; it is often a comfort to shift one’s position, and be bruised in a new place.’ — Washington Irving ‘Change is not made without inconvenience.’ — Samuel Johnson ‘Change is like putting lipstick on a bulldog. The bulldog's appearance hasn't improved, but now it's really angry.’ — Rosbeth Moss Kanter ‘Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose.’ (The more things change, the more they are the same) — Alphonse Karr ‘There is nothing more certain and unchanging than uncertainty and change.’ — John Fitzgerald Kennedy ‘Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss future.’ — John Fitzgerald Kennedy ‘Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator and change has its enemies.’ — Robert Kennedy ‘The world hates change yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.’ — Charles F. Kettering ‘The soft-minded man always fears change. He feels security in the status quo, and he has an almost morbid fear of the new. For him, the greatest pain is the pain of a new idea.’ — Martin Luther King ‘We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing.’ — R. D. Laing ‘You don’t get creative by staying in the same place.’ — Andy Law ‘Are you willing to be sponged out, erased, cancelled, made nothing? Are you willing to be made nothing? Dipped into oblivion? If not, you will never really change.’ — D. H. Lawrence ‘If you want truly to understand something, try to change it.’ — Kurt Lewin ‘All things must change To something new, to something strange.’ — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ‘Security is mostly superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing. To keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable.’ — Helen Keller ‘There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order to things.’ — Niccolò Machiavelli ‘One change leaves the way open for the introduction of others.’ — Niccolò Machiavelli ‘Never doubt that a small, group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.’ — Margaret Mead ‘And it will fall out as in a complication of diseases, that by applying a remedy to one sore, you will provoke another; and that which removes the one ill symptom produces others.’ — Thomas More ‘When change is rapid and problems abundant, society must be creatively adaptive or fall further and further behind.’ — David Moss ‘All things change, nothing perishes.’ — Ovid ‘Change does not change tradition, it strengthens it. Change is a challenge and an opportunity, not a threat.’ — Prince Philip ‘You are so young, my son, and, as the years go by, time will change and even reverse many of your present opinions. Refrain therefore awhile from setting yourself up as judge of the highest matters.’ — Plato ‘Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.’ — Bertrand Russell ‘Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.’ — Arthur Schopenhauer ‘Old fashions please me best; I am not so nice To change true rules for odd inventions.’ — William Shakespeare ‘Progress is impossible without change; and those who cannot change their minds, cannot change anything.’ — George Bernard Shaw ‘It is a bad plan that admits of no modification.’ — Publilius Syrus ‘Things do not change; we change.’ — Henry David Thoreau ‘A competitive world offers two possibilities. You can lose. Or, if you want to win, you can change.’ — Lester Thurow ‘Change is not merely necessary to life—it is life.’ — Alvin Toffler ‘Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.’ — Leo Tolstoy ‘It seldom happens that a man changes his life through his habitual reasoning. No matter how fully he may sense the new plans and aims revealed to him by reason, he continues to plod along in old paths until his life becomes frustrating and unbearable—he finally makes the change only when his usual life can no longer be tolerated.’ — Leo Tolstoy ‘The altar cloth of one aeon is the doormat of the next.’ — Mark Twain ‘If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.’ — Lao Tzu ‘The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.’ — Alan Watts ‘They always say that time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.’ — Andy Warhol ‘The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order.’ — Alfred North Whitehead

Carnatic music too must reinvent itself in a new Avatar

Classical Carnatic music too must reinvent itself in a new Avatar

I feel that the entire set up of caranatic music arena  needs to effect the necessary changes for better chances.

 

For its richness of ragas [very scientific and aesthetic sound structures] its reach is very limited.

WHO or WHAT IS TO BE BLAMED? I would say it is sticking on to tradition blindly.

 In reality carnatic music has become a December industry except for well established artists making some living at the mercy of NRIs but I doubt whether the next generation of NRIs will have either time or taste for continuing to sponsor our artists. Repetition is becoming rather too trite in Carnatic music.

Long back I wrote for a magazine saying that Sabhas have become like BCCI and the artists are at the mercy of Sabha secretaries and in the process proximity, contacts , recommendations etc rule over real merit very often. It is so unfortunate.

This great carnatic music is imbued with some intrinsic aspects and essences like the Bhakthi Oriented or Devotion based Lyrical splendor, the entire gamut of excellent ragas which stimulate not only our physical and mental aspects but even our soul's longing and takes us into a complete trance, gives adequate space for manodharma of the performer which can be vaguely translated as individual improvisation based on the artist’s imagination within the parameters of raga’s basic grammatical structure and many more such intrinsic aspects.

However, predominantly it is Bhakthi Orientation and/ or Devotion based. Whether we like it or not, unfortunately that aspect, namely Bhakthi or unqualified devotion is, if not absolutely but to a very great extent, is waning or has disappeared.

In this scenario, like many other art forms all over the world have made the leap in some cases; made the gradual transition or transformation in some cases; in some cases effected the necessary change either moderately or totally as a matter of evolution to adjust to changing situations, contexts, circumstances of life and its constantly changing demands and tastes. I think classical carnatic music too, must reinvent itself in a new avatar with more themes which are much closely and easily perceived and passionately followed by many rather than only sticking on to emphasizing on Bhakthi alone. 

I know that Carnatic music is primarily one of the best tools for devotion and deeper meditation rather than a mere entertainment based art form. That’s why when there is even a slight deficit or deterioration in its pristine quality it lacks the impact that it ought to effect on a rasika’s soul, a total perfection seeking academicians criticism, the overall spiritual and soulful impact that would stop all one’s noisy thought process and so on. This happens because artists too are after all  human beings and they too need enough money, freedom, free time etc to enjoy to their souls’ content the music that they render first and  then proceed on to share with the rest of the world their joy and communion with a higher realms of spirit. 

When the necessary attention and monetary incentives are not there, they naturally resort to venture into a totally different territory or domain, I am not saying it is right or wrong, namely the entertainment industry, whose requirements and demands are totally different from aesthetic appeal or deeper and devotional splendor or classical correctness etc.

So, once you are into entertainment industry channel then you need to adjust to that frequency by resorting to all sorts of themes, more variety which have an instant and immediate appeal, not necessarily long lasting value, and no one in the industry is bothered about such elements either.

The greatness of epics, scriptures, divine compositions, ancient architecture all over the world have their continued value for human race, they would always be the sources of inspiration, bench marks, reference manuals and much more there are like the Sun or many other stars in our galaxy and the far away galaxies always shedding light for life’s sustenance but life is also made of many passing clouds which too have their own role to play in the overall scheme of things. It all depends on what you want the Sun or the stars or passing clouds. Normal views of the eyes easily see the passing clouds but you need specially made telescopes and enhanced vision to see the Sun and spot the stars.

So if you want to plunge into entertainment industry and compete with the passing clouds, there is nothing wrong in that, then you cannot afford to be the constant ever shining Sun.

 The problem arises when, instead of making the inevitable adjustments, necessary modifications, in all aspects of the art form in its totality, you merely dilute the quality of raga, change of language, superfluous rendering without your soul and entire spirit in it, merely rendering it for your presumed market combined with poor audience concentration etc  many artists are more interested in exhibiting  skills which in fact kills carantic music of its Bhava, then you pander to superficiality using  a tool with enormous substance and sap like carnatic music [ it is like facing trying to hit a Bret Lee’s delivery with single straw] then there would be only uneasiness and unpleasantness instead of either complete and chaste devotion or consummate entertainment.

Do not be a cat on the wall, make your choice, there is nothing wrong, choose with your heart and soul either the entertainment channel or the enlightening course. It is so with all art forms, let me make a small comparison as a great monument a MAHAPALIPRAM, TANJORE TEMPLE, or an Akshradham temple will always remain as great master pieces of unchallengeable architectural splendors  which had , has and will always inspire , attract many to visit and look in awe and admiration but they cannot act as abode to live or sources of livelihood unless we happen to be a caretaker, cleaner or any other form of worker involved in up keep of the monument. While modern architecture provides us all the comfort to live and carry on our commercial activities. We do not visit an office building however great and good it may be as a tourist and look at the building in awe, get to know its historical importance or get enchanted by its architecture though it may be good. While many spend in millions on modern sky scrapers to house commercial complexes no one willingly gives even the entry fee for monuments if there happen to be any such thing. What we can do at best to make these monuments more visible is to provide proper roads around, enough hotels to eat and stay and other tourist attraction related facilities so that tourists are able to come and visit easily. These monuments have had, still have and shall continue to have their significance without even an iota of reduction in their significance for many centuries with or without any facilities for accessibility. Similarly the greatness of the compositions of the Carnatic music’s Trinity and the many other great composers survived, survive and shall survive irrespective of whether Aryakudi Ramanuja Iyengar sang it or Aruna Sairam sang it in any concert. 

The great composers of the past and their compositions do not need our anaclitic choice [choose something based on some nostalgic and protective attachment] to continue their existence.

As I have mentioned earlier that we must make the inevitable adjustments, necessary modifications, in all aspects of the art form in its totality. In the context of carnatic music one important further improvisation could be composing songs with proper structure of ragas and swaras in different themes and in as many languages like something about thinking, knowledge, love, youth, society, environment, oneness of all life forms, biodiversity, animal welfare etc .

 Imagine the popularity and takers for Carnatic music if we had compositions  rendered in English on various themes.
Reading the scriptures will enhance and enlighten our life’s journey but to get a job or employment, of course other than that of a religious priest, we need to read, learn and acquire the skills from many other relevant books in each subject.

So what is of importance is to first distinguish between the two major aspects of life, namely, survival aspect of life and living aspect of life. Then choose different things for these two different aspects of life and depending on the situation, context or circumstance give priority for one over the other and carry on without complaining about lack of reception for what we do. Or if we decide to do only what is close to our heart, well, we must never grumble, just do that and everything else will be taken care of.

What is of greater importance to do what we love and love what we do then the concomitant factors necessary to make life happy and peaceful would automatically fall in place.

What is more pathetic is not lack of respect for tradition and traditional culture or even the indifference towards them but trying to put a price tag on them rather than value them for what they are. 

This has happened in every culture where the economic welfare has not accompanied the rich culture and tradition and therefore the survival aspect of life has taken a precedence over living aspect of life and tradition instead of being a part of life has become something to be acquired outside from some expert and once someone becomes an expert then prices are fixed for exhibiting that expertise.

All women used to adorn the entrances to their houses with Kolams now there are Rangoli classes and competitions with price money. All mothers cooked variety of eatables now we have Idly shops and Dosa shops and readymade Idly and Dosa dough, readymade chapattis too. Similarly everyone was singing Carnatic songs, some nicely others not so nicely it was not the preserve of the select of few. 

As long as traditions permeate life they remain rich but when it is alienated then they degrade into professions of livelihood where only some practioners of tradition become rich and not the tradition.