The Cultural Life of Meaning
- Why festivals, stories, music, dance, theatre and visual arts matter beyond entertainment.
- Utsava as collective participation and shared memory.
- Katha as a vehicle for transmitting values, history and imagination.
- Kala as both aesthetic expression and a mode of knowing.
- How cultural practices bring together individual experience and collective identity.
- Understanding everyday cultural practices as institutions of civilizational transmission.
Central question:
How do stories, celebrations and artistic practices teach a society what it values?
