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(Indian Tradition)

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Bottom and Titania in "A midsummer Night's Dream"
Directed by S.B Rout  in Telugu-2008

    India is a vast country with multi-coloured lifestyle and temperament. The life is treated here as celebration which reflects in all our activities and behaviour. India has been bestowed with many natural gifts; mountains, rivers, deserts, forests, etc. In compliment to that, it gives birth to so many religions, sects and ideology. It has been witnessed the tyranny of the foreign invaders in the beginning of ancient civilization; how the Aryans entered into its land crossing the barriers of the great Himalayas thousands of years ago and how a cross cultural milieu was set up to birth to a great tradition; The Indian tradition. Vedas, Upnishads, Puranas were written and practised among the people of this land. The fragrance of the truth of life crossed the boundaries of this sub-continent and spread over the globe which transformed India as philosophical and cultural hub of the world. The influence of Indian philosophy leads our mindset to appreciate “life’ as maya; the illusion and thus the truth can be achieved when the soul meets the supreme. This became the major reason to understand life as a blissful journey in search of immortality; the result is the celebration. Our Indian art and culture every time indicates and celebrates this unending journey of life. Time and again it reflects through colours, forms and performances. It entered into our nerves and became a part of our life style. It became our culture and gradually handed over to the generations in the form of Tradition.

In the tune of nature:

Our ethnic tradition is the reflection of our life which is guided by the ecological and climatic conditions, dialects, customs, and rituals of the particular region in which it is nourished and flourished. It is strongly observed that, a tribal form is more dramatic, expressive, elaborate and bright while the folk and village based performative tradition bears the testimony of lyrical and subtle expressions; poetic, soft and intricate. Is it not the environment of the region, which decides the form? Who taught the artists to follow a definite pattern? A definite stroke! It is the nature who tuned our mind and body for a definite style and form. This specific dynamism of working tradition is different in different regions which levelled them as different schools of Arts. In this way different traditions are the outcome of the native behaviour which I called- untranscribed (Can’t be translated)

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Dr. Satyabrata Rout, Associate Professor, Theatre Arts Department,                                                      

S .N School of Arts and Communication, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad-500046