Culture and Development: Finding The Optimum Mean | Bappaditya Chakravarty | Dr. Rinkoo Wadhera

Culture is beautiful because of its diversity. However, overlapping cultures can create problems. Despite differences in culture, there are fundamental questions about life that remain the same. The book "The Two Wonderers" explores this concept.
While blending cultures can lead to resistance, we will not discuss cultural subversion here. Rather, what challenges can development bring forth to the native culture? Depending on the scale, it can be huge. Native cultures are closely tied to their environment and have a deep understanding of it. Therefore, while development is necessary, it's important to consider the significance of local culture and dialogues with people. With its gripping narrative, this book "Swordplay" has the power to spark invigorating discussions on culture and development, and offers a thrilling plot twist that begs to be explored further.
About The Speaker:
Bappaditya Chakravarty spent more than two decades in the field of education and a total of fifteen years in Development Management and Institutional Development. He has worked in many countries as an individual consultant and on behalf of the World Bank. Having published three thrillers in Bengali, one in English, and two historical fiction in English, he now considers himself a storyteller and has settled down to writing after more than two decades of traipsing around the globe.
Dr. Rinkoo Wadhera is a researcher with a post-doctorate in Gender Studies and folkloristics. She is also an educational consultant & teacher-trainer with schools. She is the author of - Existentialism and Upanishadic Resolution in Indian English Poetry.
Topics Covered:
00:00 Importance of Cultural Knowledge Base
01:16 The Journey to A Writing Career
05:06 “The Two Wonderers”: Fundamental Questions Remain The Same Across Cultures
07:27 Self-Realization of The Protagonist
09:42 Grief Is Something You Deal With Alone
13:53 “Swordplay”: A Strategic Thriller
16:23 The Strategy of The Storyline
18:43 Stories of The Tehri Dam Relocation
29:45 Incompetence of the Management: Cultural Disconnect
32:47 Development: Need to Understand the Local Culture
37:09 Real-Life Contributes to the Plot of the Thriller: Security Risk
39:33 The Benefits, But at the Coast of What?
43:45 Finding The Optimum Mean
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[@lalitharavindran]

If 1/10th of the efforts were spent talking to the local people on what they want, they could have foreseen the negative impact of dams like Tehri.

[@ived7138]

Can Bengalis not get a real job rather than only talk and opine? No wonder Bengal has been left behind by the rest of India and Calcutta has fallen from its glorious past.