In post-industrial and consumer-based time when the ‘hybrid’ of technology and experience, the alliance between machine and representation is taking place, every citizen could construct her own ‘custom lifestyle’ and ‘select’ her ideology from a large (but not infinite) number of choices. Rather than pushing the same objects/information to a large group, globalised capitalist marketing strategies tries to target each individual separately through the medium of ‘New Media’.

Sexual practices, beliefs and ideologies were gradually shifting in a new discursive pattern in late 19th century colonial Bengal. The project of social reformation was working from the middle of the century to sanitize almost all the aspects of Bangali cultural life and was trying to re-shape it in a more radical way.

Let me begin by offering my namaskar to this august assembly of the President of Kazakhstan,Asian writers and Littérateur. Thanks to the Kazakhstan Writers Forum for arranging this greatevent, in India which may be called as the Rajasuyayagna, the mythical event of imperial sacrifices or the King’s inauguration sacrifices; it was a consecration of a king.

Tajikistan is the smallest land in Central Asia with a dilapidated economy which suffers acute social instability in her post-Soviet phase. But as a land of classical heritage, she inherited a rich legacy of culture from pre-soviet and soviet epoch. And these ethereal elements created the basis for sustaining her cultural entity that supported her journey towards independent nationhood.