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Don't need lessons on culture, noted Manipuri filmmaker to state governor
Business Standard | IANS | Imphal, August 15, 2016
An award-winning Manipuri filmmaker has reacted sharply to the state's governor, V. Shanmuganathan, asking a gathering of the state's intellectuals to write a 100-word piece on culture in return for tea at the Raj Bhawan.
Filmmaker Aribam Syam Sharma's response came in an open letter where he said, in Manipuri, that "a person who doesn't show respect and have propriety doesn't have the decency to respect the knowledgeable" -- in short, that the governor's remark was uncultured.
Shanmuganathan's "playful challenge to those who assembled, amongst which were gurus of the arts and culture of Manipur, is considered as thaksi khasi naidaba, leibak macha tadaba in our culture. I would not attempt to translate these phrases in English because what is significant here would be lost in translation", Sharma wrote.
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