THE 9 O'CLOCK DEBATE WITH ADI SHANKARA
A 17 year old taking up Adi Shankaracharya and his Advaita philosophy as the topic for the CBSE board examination project definitely seems possibly imposed than voluntary. While some would look at it as an atrocious attempt to produce a plagiarised work, a few others would consider it as a futile attempt of an over-enthusiastic teen to encroach into a realm exclusively meant for the ‘intellectuals’. The idea of branding anything that is ancient as backward and moreover, outdated has continued for ages now. As Indians who are endowed with an unparalleled privilege to grow up with these great philosophies deeply embedded in our value system, it is extremely underwhelming to realize that many of these are on the brink of extinction. Although I have no professionally vetted research paper to prove my statement and no scholars to quote, the developmental path our country has undertaken over the past decades has completely ignored these great philosop...