we will wake up and realize that we have lost most of the things that made us distinct and special as a civilisation and a nation she says when indians write prizewinning novels even when using english or play music that resonates all over the world or find their place on the international fashion ramp or bollywood infiltrates into broadway or russia its because our creativity originates from our very distinctive cultural and aesthetic roots something no one can access and replicate except us unfortunately because socially sensitive civil society is so rightly paranoid these days about fundamentalism regionalism and shiv sena type cultural policing they dont realise the other kind of insidious invasions and erosions that are taking place the opposite of the maratha manoos and blatant im proud to be an indian breastbeating is not to abandon everything that makes us maharastrian or indian it is to realise that indias ideal should be a salad with every ingredient with its own distinct flavour and colour all happily coexisting with each other and contributing to the delicious final result not a soup with everyone boiled down to the same anonymous mush will the tigers still die out despite our best efforts probably but to dr ramkumar another more pertinent question rises in its place what i have learned from the ariyalur excavation is this every species that has dominated the food chain begins its descent one day towards natural extinction and diminishing ability to cope with its environment when the top of the food chain is perfect it means everything beneath it is perfect the deer which is its food base and the deers food base and so on just as the mangroves protect us from the tsunami every microorganism has its function it protects us from something we do not know what the tiger has protected us from the loss of the tiger is not what should be worrying about it is a symptom man itself is still halfway through evolution as is seen by the curvature of the spine from quadruped huntergatherer to biped to we dont know what next the question should be if the tiger is gone what down the food chain has been disturbed and what is that unknown that it has kept at bay its simple really when you dont know the unknown that comes after the tiger dont mess with the tigerten parts of india that are dying vedic chanting included on the unesco intangible cultural heritage endangered list in 2008 only 13 of over 4000 original vedic schools of chanting have survived four of these in maharashtra kerala karnataka and orissa are under imminent threat navroz the parsi festival of navroz was put on the in imminent danger map in 2009 in azerbaijan india iran kyrgyzstan pakistan turkey and uzbekistan celebrated on march 21 each year the songs dances and traditional games associated with it are also endangered mareware jhatti rain