Global village

Adaptation is wiser!

The local seniors have to monitor the scenes and offer indirect hints to the young men and women who would be running our country in the future. The good points in our traditional culture and philosophy of life have to be preserved without falling prey to modern materialistic life trends (DS report on fashion trends Nov 7). Why what is good and lasting in our culture cannot be exported? Go deshi in a fashionable way! Make others imitate us. Distorted sense of superiority complex could actually be inferiority complex in disguise. What is the basic difference between the English and the Yankees (Americans)?

The former like to merge with the crowd, while the other want to stand out, and attract attention to a root (foundation) and do not waver like the branch of a tree. Modesty is out of date, in dress and deportment.

What has happened to modesty (labonnya) in our charming Bengalee women? It is irksome to see many of them with open flowing hair gracing formal occasions outside home, in public. Formality on certain occasions has to be respected. There is a limit to external physical ornamentation and cosmetics. There is no artificial cosmetic industry in Nature.

The message is: Be natural; and keep in the background. There is too much artificial butterfly effect around (is the butterfly aware of what we term as beautiful? It's a camouflage effect for survival).

Showmanship has limits. There is no point in trying to find fault with the divine conception of beauty.

Better to have open debates on the issue.