
Since the last few years, the influence of India is visible everywhere in Europe. Its culture and way of life is increasingly leaving its impress on the daily lives of the people. In Rome, Paris, Vienna, Berlin, and Madrid and many other European cities, it is possible to see India expressing itself through its Bollywood, cuisine, spirituality, yoga, ayurveda, classical dance and music and its frenetic colours. Books by Indian writers occupy prime positions in book shops and libraries in these countries. In fact this "Indian influence", despite the negligible presence of an Indian diaspora, has helped in shaping the kaleidoscopic culture that Europe is famous for. This film titled 'Palimpsest' documents how India's diverse and colourful culture is gently and quietly getting visible in countries that are not bound by common language, old historical or colonial ties. Through interviews the film tries to answer this question: Why is Indian culture getting popular in Europe? India's cultural, social, economic and geographical diversity and its ancient civilization, offers a significant and coherent alternative to Western cultural values. A country that is still in touch with its past, India has compelled the West to look at it afresh. There is renewed respect for its spiritual traditions and the fact that India is home to two of the oldest religions in the world - Hinduism and Buddhism, The film has attempted to capture impressionistically different manifestations of India's <b>...</b>
Europe India
MEA
Indian Diplomacy
Public Diplomacy
Archana kapoor
AKP
Shah Rukh
Vienna
Culture
Dance
Music Khan Bollywood