AESTHETIC CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN INDIA AND SOUTH ASIAN COUNTRIES

Abstract

The countries in South Asia have a cementing bond and a shared history as being a culture cluster. But today this bond is loosened. The competitive egoism that makes them indulged in aggressive nationalism has weakened somewhat the cultural affinity and commonality. They are making mistakes by foregrounding individuality, forgetting their own indigenous collecting thinking. For improving relations, they need to forget and forgive the mistakes of one another. They need to take lesson from the Europe, North America and South America continents which decided to tread on the path of mutual cooperation, forgetting their heinous history of World Wars. South Asia also needs to follow the same path of mutual cooperation, focussing on the exchange of cultural heritage. At this juncture we would like to clarify that the present attempt does not mean to offer any theory. The present paper is an attempt at sharing how the various arenas of Indian aesthetic venture were once part of the countries of South Asia, how they established a bond of relationship between them and how even today they, going beyond the existing domain, can help India and the countries of South Asia come together.