Wednesday, 16 April 2014

Culture is the heartbeat of Indians

Even after five generations of living in foreign lands, Indians stick together holding on to their culture and way of life. And they want to re-connect with India, we offer them an identity by giving them the status of "Person of Indian origin" We give them a passport to visit India whenever they want.  Even Indians who have surrendered their Indian citizenships and become citizen of another country, we recognize them as "overseas Citizen of India" and we allow them to invest in India, and we let them buy land in India as they are the non-resident Indians.
Farther people migrate from India, greater is their desire to connect with India. Indian culture holds them spellbound and mersmerized. The magnetic pull of the motherland is too great to resist. However settled they are in their new lands, they wish to visit the land from which their great great grandfathers came. They visit the temples and monuments and soak in the culture here. They like Indian music, they like Indian cuisine. They appreciate the festivals and the fairs. Even if one is not Indian genealogically speaking(not having genetic links) one can learn to be an Indian at heart.You can learn Indian value system. Roots are cultural and run very deep as they shape the individual's psyche.
The world is big and Indians have spreaded to far off lands; but thanks to Internet, we can quench the thirst for Indian culture by listening to Indian music, and learn Indian recipes. To experience the real India, one must come here. Its a fine place to visit but staying here would not be a good idea. There are too many problems here which the political elite is not resolving.
We can keep our culture alive by teaching our children fine values which Vivekananda had taught, by reading the Bhagavad Gita, by reading  Rabindranath Tagore and by reading Indian history. The fine values of Indian people behold came from thousands of years of cultural evolution. They are so strong that the Indian culture will thrive for centuries to come. Cultural roots are indeed deep and pull us to this land of our origin. Those who want to visit the country of their origin are most welcome here. Come and feel at home.

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