"Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, and today is a gift, which is why we call it the present". That most people attribute this bit of wisdom to a wizened old turtle from an animated Kung Fu film about a panda with poor impulse control issues rather than its actual author says far more about our zeitgeist than I ever could. And yet, somehow, this sentiment coalesces so beautifully into the Serendipity Arts Festival in Goa that one can’t help quoting it.
Speaking to News18.com before the festival, Sunil Kant Munjal, chief patron and founder of the Serendipity Arts Foundation, which organizes the entire spectacle, had said, "Indian art was never meant to be placed in different silos; that’s a more Western concept. Our arts forms are more syncretic, combining elements and disciplines, and shouldn’t be split up into different disciplines. Unfortunately, that’s what was happening for the last 200-odd years. With this festival, we hope to show how holistic and all-encompassing the Indian arts truly are.”
Mission accomplished, we'd say.
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