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India is what we think about her. If we believe in ourselves, on our country, on our cultural heritage, on our knowledge base and if we are proud to acknowledge that we are THE BEST, then and then only we will STOP looking for benchmarks. By 'benchmarks' I mean to say so called 'material developments made by western countries'.
Just ask a simple question.. how often do we look for imported brands for technological innovations? This is because, we have stopped looking at ourselves. Where is the need to reinvent what our ancestors already did? We have everything. Our culture has everything. We have to imbibe these principles in ourselves and in our children.
Had we understood the depth of knowledge we have, the question would have never been asked.
GOPI KANTA GHOSH said:
But what is India today? Unless we bring back ancient glory we must not be proud...think what we shall do...
Mr Halder pointed out very aptly, "It is we who are responsible for creating a better future for generations to come."
Prof. Pillai, I believe you have truly echoed thoughts of millions of India citizens. True, we cannot keep on harping on our past achievements for all days to come, but when we Indians are being embarrassed time and again in front of the whole world by few corrupted people on power, this small exercise of reminding ourselves of our glorious past will only leverage our morale and we can start working on image repairing with new zeal and enthusiasm.
I beg to differ from Mr Halder's view (task is not easy for an ordinary citizen as the hands of the corrupted people are so strong that it can easily suppress any protest). People who want to make India free from such corrupted nation image are huge in numbers. Till now, these people were not united in mission. We need to come together like we did during our pre independence period against the British rule. But with Lokpal Bill, I think that revolution is coming. For example, so many people are supporting Team Hazare and Team Ramdev Baba on formulating strict bill on anti-graft.
For rebuilding our Nation, we have 3 major issues..1) protecting ourselves from neighboring attacks (China, Pakistan), 2) Protecting citizens from corruptions and terrorist attacks and 3) Avoiding brain drain. Now the question is which one is to be solved first and which one to be solved next.
I remember reading a story in my childhood about a new king whose country was being attacked by enemies again and again and there were lots of thieves , dacoites and robbers in his kingdom. So his kin were not having a peaceful lives. He was under dilemma, whether he should build a strong fort first to protect his kingdom from enemies or whether he should eradicate the robbers from his kingdom first by raising a strong police force. One day while travelling withing his kingdom in disguised form he saw a farmer erecting a fence around his field which was full of weeds and grasses. HE was surprised and asked why he needs to erect a fence around a field which has no crops to protect. The farmer said, we would be tilling his farm and sowing seeds shortly, so he would have protect his farm from stray animals then. Once he is assured that there will be no invasion by animals, then he can work peacefully. From his wisdom, the kings dilemma was resolved and he decided to build a strong fort for his kingdom first.
Similarly, we should protect our country from infiltration first..be it economic or millitary. Then we should work upon educating and motivating people and corruption through strong legislation. Once corruption is under control, then we can stop terrorism and brain drain also. I know practically, these things are very difficult to achieve, but not impossible. Actually we have enough success rate on our first issue and we should be thankful at least our defense mechanism at borders is not corrupted. We were always united when our country faced attacks from neighboring countries. So now, we have to tackle the tricky issue number 2 (corruption) and we can do it successfully..no doubt abut it.
Mam,
on the similar lines, when we were working a challenges of providing sustainable potable drinking water supply to highly quality affected habitations in rural rajasthan after looking at all the technological advances of modern era, we had to conclude that reviewing traditional rain water harvesting methods (which have been used for ages and later had a slow death due to if i may call western technological influences) combined with modern technological know how were the best option to provide water to parched areas of the state.
This further reinstates that we had the best technological know how suited for all generations. We rather than letting that precious base die, should be able to build upon that and build India of 21st century.
Mrs Munmun S Deshpande said:
great compilation maam, i feel it is in continuation to the discussion we had earlier and supports my view that past teachings and culture in Indian History is probably the best thing we can be proud of. But as Dr G K Ghosh has reflected, we need to bring the glory back. I remember while going to Kolkata by train, we knew West Bengal border started by the site of earthen tea-cups and now all is plastic. We need to think over first why we should bring the past back, when to bring it back and how to implement the change to that the hi-tech urban population adapts it. As it is said, it is easy to change one's self but very tough to change others.
very very interesting and informative recompilation of the India's past glory. Many thanks for sharing with us. The concepts Environmental conservation and sustainable Development were the cornerstones of our traditions, Customs and practices, Which you aptly named dharma. But unfortunately we are running after the west and following in their footsteps, degrading our environment like never before.Immediate steps are needed to incorporate traditional environmental ethos in our corporate culture to pollute less and create more with minimal impact on the environment
hello madam !!!
great article .....very helpful to make our stand & create sense of nationality in those confused brains who still dont believe in strength of our country !!!!
India has been a source of learning ..its been a long time that government is not creating a platform for nationalism !!!! education sector is not getting specific attention !!!
once again thanks for a wonderful piece of lines.......
i have taken a print of it to spread the message !!!
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