Letters to the editor

Art and the Sacred - Movie (Commentary)

6 years, 5 months ago by hps in Special Category B

Prof. Kalyan-kumar Chakravarty wrote:

Dear Swamiji,
I have looked at the video with deep respect for the hard and sensitive work put in by you and your team in the midst of your whirlwind tour. 
I have attached my comments and corrections for the video sent to me. I can't congratulate you enough for this.
I offer short comments on each interview,

  1. Hectar Bejar. A very sensitive commentary on the crisis of market oriented society which places knowledge over values, interests over feelings, the virtual over the reality.
  2.  Kalyan Kumar Chakravarty. The designation needs to be changed. If possible it should read as follows: Distinguished Professor and Member, Governing Board, Centurion University of Technology and Management, Bhubaneswar and Visakhapatnam;

Ex-Secretary, Government of India;

Ex-Chancellor, National University of Educational Planning and Administration, New Delhi, GOI; Ex-Chairman, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi, GOI.

JFK School and Graduate School of Art and Science, Harvard University, USA.

M.A., MPA, Ph.D., History, Public Administration, Fine Arts.

The corrections to the subtitles to my article are shown and deletions have been <s>struck through</s>.

5:20 is largely one dealing with

5:28 necessity and <s>enrichment</s> embellishment

5:36 from <s>the</s> their environment

6:04 a lot festivals with them

6:46 I see him <s>is</s> as the only <s>member</s> agent of nature

6:59 The <s>human being</s> humanity

7:15 and <s>their</s> there being no more left

7:18 so it starts <s>to consume</s> consuming itself

7:23 I’ve done a lot of <s>Government</s> governance

7:35 What is called “matsya ”

7:38 Fish eating fish.

Big fish eating smaller fish,

        <s>eating smaller fish</s>

7:56 and you become <s>a</s> part of an <s>automotive</s> automative civilization

8:22 which embodies urban anxiety

8:30 <s>As</s> uch of this art has not

8:51 invaded by a kind of , immediacy

9:24 In <s>this current</s> a surveillance state if

  1. Gustavo Buntinx. An excellent summary of philosophical though on the fractured human condition.
  2. Jorge Villacorta.  A moving commentary on the cathartic in art, poetry and theology in everyday life.
  3. Liliana Galvan. A beautiful statement connecting art with life.
  4. Ravi M. Gupta. A sensitive exposition of Krishna Consciousness as a clue to connect sacred and profane.