Kochi biennale can promote communal harmony: Shashi Tharoor

KOCHI: Kochi-Muziris Biennale is relevant in the modern times which is that is marked by unease and animosity between countries and communities, said Shashi Tharoor, Union minister of state for human resources development.
The biennale would help people know what others do for them, thus cement a human bond, he said while delivering a lecture at the Aspinwall House, the main venue of the three-month extravaganza at Fort Kochi.
“But for globalisation, our imagination would have shrunk,” the minister said. It has been helping people in exploring their own identity and expand their mental horizon, he noted at the talk titled ‘Globalisation and the Human Imagination’.
Tharoor noted that terrorist organisations have been trying to muzzle and assault the human imagination in the current post-liberalisation world. The 9/11 attack in the US and Mumbai 26/11 have made a lot of changes in the world and India, he added.
The results have been communal friction and social tensions. Globalisation has withstood their pressures, and continues to benefit mankind, he added.
Earlier, the minister took a tour of the Aspinwall House, watching the exhibits put on display at the sea-facing building.