Heritage is Inspiration
Heritage is Inspiration Are you one of those people who believe that preserving our heritage is a colossal waste of time? Are you one those people who feel that history is weighing us down and we should only concentrate on the present? If your answers are yes, then please indulge me for a few moments. Recently I was dining with a friend, a manager at a leading multi-national company, and during our conversation he confided that “all this talk about ‘heritage’ in social media and national narrative” is simply not his cup of tea. “We should focus on aaj (today), not kal (yesterday). We need to focus on economy only and all else is simply noise.” He was quite surprised to learn that I disagreed. In fact, he had assumed that as I was a scientist, I was a ‘rationalist’ (whatever that means) and I would vehemently agree with his views. I can see why, from an individual’s perspective, heritage can often be a difficult concept to appreciate since the traditional view of “heritage” usual...