Summary:
These divine chants of various religions, cultures, geographies and communities liberate us from worldly afflictions and agonies that define the Anthropocene world, we inhabit today. What are sustainable antidotes for this maddening agony that marks the Anthropocene age? When this is a public or group rendering of the divine names and chants, it is called Namasankeertanam. Nearly fifteen years ago, biologist Eugene Stoermer and Paul Crutzen, the Chemistry Nobel laureate coined a new word, Anthropocene. In my growing up years, I had the nourishment of divine chants, Christian hymns, devotional Qawwalis and songs..