Navalkar was addressing a gathering after conferring Progressive Education Society's `Gurvarya Late Shankarrao Kanitkar Award' to internationally renowned Ayurveda expert Balaji Tambe at a function held at Modern Girls High School here recently.

``We have developed a sort of resistance power against the blitzkrieg of foreign culture invasion into our society. So much so that we have decided to surrender before it rather than guard our culture against it'', he remarked.

He said although science had transformed the world into a global village, the same had also distanced humans from each other.

The only hope of preserving our culture, as we move on to the 21st century, is that we inculcate values in our children, he added.

Earlier, delivering his acceptance speech Tambe called for enriching the values in the Indian culture.