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Surabhi, the DD show that changed the idea of Indian culture as a single entity
JToday the words Sanskrit (culture), parampara (tradition) and Riti Rivaz (customs and rituals) can instantly evoke two types of images. The first is something archaic, conservative, well, old. The second, thanks to the current polarized political discourse with its militant ideas about what is really and authentically Indian, evokes an idea of something puritanical, narrow …