blazeofglory
09-11-2009, 01:16 AM
I often think that today ideas and ideologies have been commoditized and sold as any other consumers’ durables all across the world the way other commodities are done in point of fact. And we know there are powerful Medias who can manufacture ideas and sold to the common man, and the common man unaware of the authenticity or legitimacy of the ideas assimilate into his day to day activities or embeds in his mindset. He has no ability to discriminate between things and accept them categorically.
Today in the east it is believed that western literature is far better than its counterpart eastern literature. Even eastern religions give way to western ones. It is all money and the west has too much and the east has insignificant.
Many know the fact that the east is rich in cultures, and nowhere their culture is substandard, and in some way it is richer in terns of philosophy, ancient literature, mythology and the like. Of course the west is accredited with scientific inventions, discoveries and explorations. Needless to say they have done the incredible in technology and the east is indebted to the west and has still to learn a great deal. It may take centuries to outdistance the west by the east. All these advancements in multidimensional fields notwithstanding, the east can take pride in the domain the west is still creeping.
The east is a great fountainhead of knowledge, ancient wisdom, and has great pieces of literature. Still great majorities do write here and there are writers of world class in India and Nepal and China. From these lands those who can write in English or to put it differently, those have the advantages of the knowledge of the English language are highly privileged and those who have no knowledge of it are at a great disadvantage in point of fact. Tagore, was awarded the noble prize just because he could write in both languages efficiently, and he could translate his master pieces into English. There are so many writers in India who could outperform Tagore, yet owing mainly to the fact that they could not translate they lagged behind those who could.
Today the measure of success in the west is whether or not the writer has got any western awards or medals. That is the metrics. Even if the writer writes fabulously he or she can not be represented for want of competence in English, and of course he or she must have someone to benignly translate the works into one of the European languages and preferably into English. The entire noble committee has prejudices against those who cannot write in English, and just because they cannot understand languages outside the western domain they do not recognize them. Of course it is from other countries in the eastern hemisphere too art and literature can spring, and therefore they should not have the mindsets that only the west can come up with the best pieces.
Of course this domination or monopoly in the noble committee can upset those who come from a different cultural and linguistic background. I want to share the feelings with the rest on the forum
Today in the east it is believed that western literature is far better than its counterpart eastern literature. Even eastern religions give way to western ones. It is all money and the west has too much and the east has insignificant.
Many know the fact that the east is rich in cultures, and nowhere their culture is substandard, and in some way it is richer in terns of philosophy, ancient literature, mythology and the like. Of course the west is accredited with scientific inventions, discoveries and explorations. Needless to say they have done the incredible in technology and the east is indebted to the west and has still to learn a great deal. It may take centuries to outdistance the west by the east. All these advancements in multidimensional fields notwithstanding, the east can take pride in the domain the west is still creeping.
The east is a great fountainhead of knowledge, ancient wisdom, and has great pieces of literature. Still great majorities do write here and there are writers of world class in India and Nepal and China. From these lands those who can write in English or to put it differently, those have the advantages of the knowledge of the English language are highly privileged and those who have no knowledge of it are at a great disadvantage in point of fact. Tagore, was awarded the noble prize just because he could write in both languages efficiently, and he could translate his master pieces into English. There are so many writers in India who could outperform Tagore, yet owing mainly to the fact that they could not translate they lagged behind those who could.
Today the measure of success in the west is whether or not the writer has got any western awards or medals. That is the metrics. Even if the writer writes fabulously he or she can not be represented for want of competence in English, and of course he or she must have someone to benignly translate the works into one of the European languages and preferably into English. The entire noble committee has prejudices against those who cannot write in English, and just because they cannot understand languages outside the western domain they do not recognize them. Of course it is from other countries in the eastern hemisphere too art and literature can spring, and therefore they should not have the mindsets that only the west can come up with the best pieces.
Of course this domination or monopoly in the noble committee can upset those who come from a different cultural and linguistic background. I want to share the feelings with the rest on the forum