Self creation of Indian tradition

ENThe text explicates the fundamental difference between Western notion of “history” designed to answer the question of “who, what, when and why” and a tradition, carried by eminent texts which are not written in the past and repeated today, but which provide a play space for a great variety of interpretations and creative transformations. Thus two eminent text of India, the Ramajana and Mahabharata will be used for a brief exposition of the way India “plays” its tradition through numerous story lines, their composition and recomposition in different places and situations. Both texts were made into television serials and provoked furious debates, such that the latter continues to play with the tradition and to transform the lines of discourse about the very tradition to which such lines belong. Keywords: history, tradition, right action, story, selfinitiation, creative recreation.