India is a country gifted with a rich enviable repertoire of culture, heritage, custom, rituals, superstitions, art, literature, blah blah blah….Loads of volumes of literature, poetry, art shambles in our rich heritage libraries, as if begging to be read. Have we ever cared for the one piece of literature missing from repository, THE SCIENCE FICTION .India has fared extremely poorly in this field, may be due to lack of fascination among the ancient, medieval or modern novelist, or possibly due to their lack of courage. And this space is felt in our modern day thinking, the thought ignition mechanism of present day scholar is hampered largely due to lack of this piece of literature; the thought execution mechanism of bureaucrats is hampered; the thought delivering mechanism of pedagogue is hampered….. Among the primitive ethos of Hindustanis is that they are historians who are constantly in quest of their Ram or
In ancient occident nations the writers used to go to masses in search of plot. They went to the labourers in quest of searching the laws they wanted, they went to industrialist to sort out the perks they needed, students were asked what sort of future they dream, women were given opportunities to decide their own destiny, common masses were allowed to opine on leadership issue, priest were allowed to secure their religion, technocrats were allotted freedom to dream, innovate and realize their research and the list goes on.
Have the Hindus of Varanasi ever thought about their future or did the Muslim clergy of Deobad pointed out the direction of their future; neither did the Christians of Kerala nor did the Sikhs at Golden Temple thought so. All of us are busy chanting the hymns and performing pageantry of our individual GOD but none are worried about the future, who will carry the legacy forward into next decade or century, how will the younger generation perform rituals and oblations.
Did the bureaucrats in planning commission ever bothered to ask the other end of population for whom, they have devised the policies, or are they busy satisfying the master of whom they are cronies. Did the UGC ,(University Grant Commission) having abundant of intellectuals ever thought of asking students what sort of environment they require for creative and innovative thinking. I fear, even the pedagogies are least worried on this issue.
Every five year, we are presented with rhetoric’s in name of FIVE YEAR DEVELOPMENT PLAN. When will these rhetorics convert to reality? Government somehow finds an alibi for renege and retrograde is again repeated.
Rome is the country of artists ,but the worst are on stage,
India is the country of futurist,and the worst are in planning commission.......
