Nitin Pai on Educating Citizens
Ideas of India
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Nithopathesha
The Raman and Mahabharata were oral tradition until people began to write them down over a period of time right. So how do you think about Nithopathesha in that context? We can think about it as storytelling but will this all get lost because we are a group of small groups, he asks. No I do not think it will get lost but you know Shruti since you are on that topic you know the two big epics of India which also were oral tradition before they were written down.
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