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Article on tradition against modernity​

Answer 1

                        Tradition against Modernity

Traditions and modernity are diametrically opposite entities.

Traditions points to past, whereas modernity points to future. Traditions were

actually made for the convenience of the people in the long past by the then

wise people. For example all the festivals that we love celebrating are nothing

but traditions. They are an integral part of our society. For example, take any

tradition and analyze it; you will find it has many wholesome benefits. The

festivals we celebrate, religious ceremonies performed at wedding, inauguration

of a business, house warming party, performing hawan etc., all are our

traditions.

 

Modernity, on the other hand refers to current times. Modernity

does not believe much in traditions. For example, the young generation does not

care much about these traditions. Hence, they are not as reverent and

interested in these traditions. They believe in modern living. They prefer sticking

to their ways of thinking and doing things. Often they can be seen questioning

their elders the use and rationale behind the traditions. They feel more

comfortable using their mobile phones, laptops, TV, internet, roaming here

there in vehicles rather than bothering to observe traditions.

 

The best approach is blending traditions with modernity to

strike a balance. Traditions and modernity should be blended in such a manner

that they form something new that is beneficial for all.  

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Answer 2

Tradition against Modernity

Modernity in the Indian sense is, in any case, a command from the West. India did not get enough time to develop an indigenous idea of modernity because of the intervention of colonialism. At the time of Independence, urban India had inherited a rather basic problem: this was a contradiction between imposed modernity and age-old traditional values. There were, as a consequence, three options for the average Indian urban man: whether to embrace the Western model of modernity; or to go back, if possible, to her traditional roots; or to try to create a synthesis between the two. It was colonial education that brought to us a historical understanding of our culture. Western education gained currency which taught us to value our past and it became fashionable to talk about our heritage—Jyotindra Jain, Former Director of Crafts Museum, New Delhi.

Jean Baudrillard, a major theoretician of the European present, characterizes the present state of affairs, at least in the Western context, as “after the orgy”: the “orgy”, according to him, was the moment when modernity exploded upon us, the moment of liberation in every sphere—political liberation, sexual liberation, liberation of the forces of production, liberation of the forces of destruction, women’s liberation, liberation of unconscious drives, liberation of art. It was an orgy of the real, the rational, of criticism and of anti-criticism, of development and of the crisis of development. There has been an over-production now of objects, signs, messages, ideologies and satisfactions. When everything has been liberated, one can only simulate (reproduce) liberation, simulate the orgy, pretending to carry on in the same direction; accelerating without knowing we are accelerating in a void.