Tuesday, April 1, 2008

Indian Missing : Do we need to introspect ?

Do we know why we are fighting for ?

Do we want to fight for cleanliness and poverty and end up fighting against biharis?
Do we want to fight against pollution and end up fighting against Dow chemical industry ?
Do we want to fight for settlement of homeless in Narmada dam acquisition area and fight against development of dam ?
Do we want to fight against unemployment and end up fighting against schedule castes ?

All the issues which rise in India are being created by controversial comments. Fun is these comments are made by lot of thinking from politicians but are read by without thinking by the readers. Not only that we do not think, we do not think that here is any need to think on such comments. The real jeopardy of India is there are intelligent people, there are educated people but there are no sensible people.

In the latest Marathi Bihari issue, same history got repeated. Instead of giving a detailed plan to solve the Mumbai problem, Raj Thakre put the fuel in already burning Mumbai. Surprisingly, lot of educated marathi people supported him. This clealry shows how we lack in wisdom though we have intelligence

This is happening because we never accept the problem or the issue as it is and move on from there. We do not have wisdom to convert an issue to an opportunity for development. It takes lot of maturity to accept mistakes in history. We do not expose our kids to the mistakes we have done in our past like riots after 1947 partition, 1983 anti sikh riots or 1991 Hindu muslim riot. The more we try to suppress things, more they will come to surface again and again. The first step of improvement is to accept our guilt.

Maslow has supposedly said that India has intelligence to become superpower but do not have wisdom to become super power. Do you think he is wrong ? Then you have to prove that he is wrong not only by mass production of engineers and doctors, not only by producing missiles and cryogenic engines, not only by acquiring foreign companies, but developing and managing basic resources like energy and water, developing strong and steady social system which do not shakes time to time on weired sentences and comments by politicians, by developing political system which runs on vision and not on votes.

Never in last 2000 years there was an opportunity for India to become a superpower and lead world as it is now. But question is are we going in the right direction or are we doing same mistakes as Germans did in 1938.

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