Indija tarp vakarų ir rytų
India between west and east

Summary/Abstract: This essay delimits essentially the status of India in light of colonial influences and how traditional India and contemporary mass media productions (television serials of Ramajana and Mahabharata) complied with and resisted such influences. First, the essay outlines the basic Western conceptions of reality from Greek classics to modern thinking, leading to a nomadic civilization. Second, the essay discloses the basic outlines of Indian thought and aims which, at one level – the Brahmanic – unfold in line and conjunction with the consciousness of colonial civilization. Third, the essay articulates the ways that at the level of symbolic designs of Indian society – expressed in relationships among divinities – colonialism establishes favorable conditions for itself in relationship to local civcilization. Fourth, a delimitation of the roles of females and males in the context of cosmic Indian thought where all the cosmic features are feminine; they comprise the greatest and unavoidable danger to all colonial efforts to establish “higher ” – transcendent – domain having the right and duty to rule. This transcendence is an expression of patriarchy which elevates its position from transcendence to transcendental condition of the universe. Fifth, this condition breaks down, since in accordance with its own logic it is empty and everything that it claims to possess belongs to feminine cosmic features such as sakti, kama, lila, maya and kali (energy, eros, play, illusion and time).

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