Chennai, Jan 1 : Tamil Nadu Governor R.N.Ravi today said

preservation and promotion of art and culture have been given

considerable importance in the New Educational Policy (NEP).

Inaugurating the Mega Isai Vizha (Season-5) organised by Tamil

Cultural Academy here, he highlighted the significance of Tamil

culture in defining India.

“The beauty of our culture in lies in the fact that it is rooted in our

spirituality”, he said.

Recollecting how during the period of colonisation, the British did

their best to ruin our culture and spirituality as a matter of their

policy and how they could not succeed because like our spirituality,

Mr Ravi said “our culture is eternal and indestructible.”

The Governor highlighted the significance of the month in which

the Isai Vizha is being organised in the auspicious month of Tamil

month Margazhi which is divine as stated by Lord Krishna in

Bhagavat Gita and the month in which our state is immersed in

devotion.

He explained how the expression of our culture from Kanniyakumari

to Kashmir and Kutch to Kamrup though apparently diverse are

rooted in the shared spirituality of Bharat.

“That is the reason that our Mahakavi Bharathiyar who admired, called

himself Bharathi”, Mr Ravi said, adding, preservation and promotion of

art and culture have been given considerable importance in the NEP so

as to build a self-reliant India rooted in self-esteem.

He also congratulated the Tamil Cultural Academy for their outstanding

service in preserving and propagating our culture which is a legacy of

several thousand years being passed on from generations to generations.

He brought out the need to build more cultural universities and academies

in the country.

The Governor congratulated and conferred awards to the artists and dancers

who came from all other parts of our country to perform their best in the function.(UNI)