Rural people still nurture values. In the clamour to become independent, the urban lot have lost their sensitivity,” said Banumathi Narasimhan, Director of Women and Child Welfare Programmes of the Art of Living Foundation.
Speaking to Anasuya Menon on her visit to Coimbatore for conducting a course on meditation, she stressed the need for going back to our value systems. The rural population still believed in the joint family system and respected their elders. But, there was a general erosion of values among the urban people in their constant quest to become westernised. This even led to broken families, she lamented.Read More
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