By Kalpana Sahni
This specific paintings explores, via own narratives, the overlapping and intermingling of cultures in addition to the tremendous cultural range internationally. This exploration unavoidably questions notions of upper or reduce cultures, and civilized or uncivilized peoples. certainly it questions the very idea of superiority among peoples. except cross-cultural encounters, this paintings additionally discusses how quite a few democratic and non-democratic governments and businesses have tried to hide cross-cultural impacts by means of inventing superiority, purity, and authenticity of cultures and civilizations to the detriment of others. but cross-culture pollination, an ongoing strategy, constantly finds itself throughout the neglected cracks of historical past. The booklet exhibits that India isn't any exception and has been and remains to be porous. the various examples of cross-pollination — with Algeria, Indonesia, Cambodia, to say a number of — strength us to re-look cultural constructs and certainly the very that means of culture.
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