Delivered two lectures from ten to one , in the refresher course on Cultural Studies organised by the Mizoram University. I spoke on how India's culture has been shaped by our history, geography, religion, art, architecture, sculpture and painting in the first part. In the second part, I spoke of the intangible heritage through Ramlila performances through out the country, music both Carnatic based on Kriti and Hindustani based on raga, classical dance, folk dances, and food. The underlying theme of both these talks was that Indian culture has been shaped over five thousand years and there is no one monolithic hegemonic culture but there is a lot of diversity in it. Yet underlying this diversity is a unity which connects India. There were about seventy participants and it gave me immense joy to see some of my former students,who are now teaching in different Universities attending this.
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