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Of cultural, religious and lingual significance of heritage
The Centre for Comparative Literature (CCL), School of Humanities, University of Hyderabad (UoH) hosted the national conference on “Epic in India: Exploring Variations, Transformations and Mutations”, which began on Wednesday. Upto 60 delegates from the country are participating in the conference.
The Centre for Comparative Literature (CCL), School of Humanities, University of Hyderabad (UoH) hosted the national conference on “Epic in India: Exploring Variations, Transformations and Mutations”, which began on Wednesday. Upto 60 delegates from the country are participating in the conference.
Prof. Tutun Mukherjee introduced the theme of the conference and said, “Indian epics are heritage that continue to inspire through ages together to develop our civilization with values and cultures in plurality of life.”
Delivering the keynote address, Prof. Harish Trivedi deliberated on the many dimensions of epics through ages and from various civilizations of the world. He spoke on ‘The Idea of Epic across Ages’ and gave special focus on Indian epics and their different versions from different times of India.
He comparatively debated the development of epic in European cultures and Indian one. He stressed on the plurality of epics in India from different cults of beliefs such as Budhism, Jainism, Hinduism, and many more.
Prof. Panchanan Mohanty, Dean, School of Humanities, UoH inaugurated the National Seminar and stressed on the need to study Indian epics with deductive approach and underlined the importance of multilingual, cultural and literary traditions of epics in India.
“It is importance to study the epics from all religious and cultural sectors of life pertaining in all languages of India, oral and written, to get a comprehensive study of them to locate ourselves in the world,” he said.
This followed by Prof. Makarand Paranjape who spoke on “Monuments in Verse: Epic Transformations” and dealt in his speech the building monuments and constructive monuments of ideas and values through epic. He also spoke about the films and their stories that are similar to the epics and the popular figures that are inspired from films.
Later, Prof. Anisur Rahaman from Jamia Millia Islamia gave a speech focusing the Urdu epic traditions. Prof. Nirmal Kanti Bhattacharjee talked on how some of the Bengali texts are inspired from various epics narratives. This followed the three parallel sessions of young scholars on varied themes.
