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national activism. All this speaks of the
versatility of the work whose relevance
transcends the barriers of time, place and the
culture-specific character of the human society.
The brief discussion leads us to the
theme `Gita in the 21st Century', not for the
people at home only but also for the Indian
diaspora. As the trend of liberalization-
privatisation-globalization is taking root around
the world, new realities regarding knowledge
and its dissemination along with the choice of
the medium of international communication
have emerged. The knowledge has now
become a universal category and the English
language has come to be accepted as the
medium of wider communication between the
continents. For the educated Indian population
at home, English as an indigenized language.
comes close to the indigenous languages and
as such is as relevant to the classical status
of Sanskrit (in which the text of Gita is