Chennai: The beauty of our culture in lies in the fact that it is rooted in our spirituality, said Tamilnadu Governor R N Ravi.
Speaking after he inaugurated the Mega Isai Vizha (Season-5) organised by Tamil Cultural Academy at Narada Gana Sabha, Alwarpet, Chennai, he recollected 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. ‘Our culture is eternal and indestructible.’
The Governor highlighted the significance of the month in which the Isai Vizha is being organised. Margazhi is divine as stated by Lord Krishna in Bhagavat Gita, he said and added that in this month 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.