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To paraphrase what Einstein said, we live in a persistent illusion called reality. In that illusive reality, the stories of individuals and their cultures keep us all going in the face of pandemics, natural calamities and racial frictions and segregations. Those are the stories that make us feel triumphant.
We in Sharothi Arts are working to create opportunities to learn about those experiences of people, struggles of communities and the visions of the different ethnic and cultural groups.
Our mission and our passion are to identify insidious cultural barriers, and then to transcend them— to gallop across them like fearless charioteers, so as to bring about a glorious symbiosis of disparate societies and cultures. We believe that cultural sovereignty can be retained, even while fruitful amalgamation of ideas and traditions takes place.
In multicultural societies, it’s not uncommon for people to feel marginalized, or even wholly excluded. No one deserves to be imprisoned in a cultural ghetto, and we are devoted to dismantling them. Our goal is to facilitate artistic and social collaboration and dialogue between people from multiple cultural backgrounds; we believe that the resulting synergy can be potent enough to eradicate hatred, and greatly empower all members and participants of the collective. Passion, curiosity and imagination are given free reign here.
We initiated this collective effort to give a voice to all ethnicities – to allow their stories to be told, and to allow their wonderfully diverse traditions and artistries to intertwine, and complement each other.
Sharothi passionately believes that the more we know about each other, the harder it is for hatred to flourish, the greater our tolerance, and the deeper our appreciation of each other’s differences.
Over the years Sharothi has collaborated extensively with other like-minded organizations, and will continue to do both in the future. The members of Sharothi have often worked as freelancers with other cultural groups and organisations, to reclaim the rich original sources of songs, rituals, stories, myths and practices. There is a surplus of inferior copies, but so few pure templates left of the originals.
In this modern techno-centric society, traditional children’s hobbies have been displaced by a blanket dependency on devices and gadgets. We hope to restore some much needed equilibrium in this area, by creating a permeability in the children’s world, through a fusion of old and new cultural traits.
Our core belief is therefore one of celebration in the face of depreciation.
We look to literary giants, music maestros and forgotten heroes; we examine and uphold stories of sacrifice and lifelong devotion, how they shaped generations that brought those stories with them when they migrated to this country, and how they handed those traditions down to the next generations. To us, it is about empowering people through cultural activities. Empowerment, as Zimmerman said, is ‘a psychological process in which individuals think positively about their ability to make change and gain mastery over issues at individual and social levels.’
Our core belief is therefore one of celebration in the face of depreciation.
