Traditional wisdom: How India’s repository of jnana is lying unread and unstudied

Grandparents as repositories and disseminators of traditional wisdom within families is a disappearing phenomenon. Not merely because 'nuclear' families make interactions with grandparents rare, but also because very few of today's Nana-Nanis and Dada-Dadis are familiar with our ancient texts anyway. Due to decades of educational policies and social narratives that looked askance at India's past, recent generations have grown up culturally deracinated.