On the occasion of a new year, a new decade in the century when the world is changing to have its new poles, power houses, increasingly tilting to the Indian and the Chinese (so to say Asian) ethos, I thought why not dedicate this blog of mine to the story and the spirit of Indian super powerdom.
India - a country old enough to even trace its earliest recorded history has seen a plethora of historical sequences, dynasties, rules, wars, conquests, invasions, migrations, diplomatic arguments, blah…blah…blah. It is a country united by the virtue of its diversity not only of region and population, but also of religion, caste, creed, languages, beliefs, respect etc.
Recorded history more or less reveals that, Yes!!! This country of so much diversity was actually more advanced than any other part of the world at some point of time. Our education system was at its enlightening best, we did produce some commendable results in scientific research in several domains of science. Our medicine was also quite advanced, we had cure of many deadly diseases of contemporary time. Some ancient structures in the form of some old temples, domes in ancient mosques, old dams and roads do reveal the intrinsic strength in our engineering, designing and construction skills also. In midst of all these, Yes!!! Somewhere we did lose the track also, Didn’t we? The Mughals proved out to be more advanced in warfare, navigational strength to occupy the hinterland of this country and The British showed some real skills in bringing the ideology of the Industrialization, European Renaissance replicated in form of both scientific and cultural advancements (like literature), which I guess is somewhat related to the Negotiating skills of the British which was advanced enough to inculcate disparity and quarrel (Divide and Rule) among our "Unified Diversity".
Now, given that we exist in 21st century, we are quite aware of the Superpower nations of the world at present and of recent past. The phenomenon called the United States of America is enjoying the position of global dominance till date which it achieved by the virtue/after effect of a solemn Cold War with the largest nation of the World in area, USSR. Everyone knows that USSR is now just a struggling entity of Russia still trying to get out of its native communistic ideology. But US definitely deserves the position it enjoys, doesn’t it? The country which stands by the very simple ideology of Right to Liberty has definitely done its homework well. Treating everybody as equal in their capability of doing a certain job not only enriches the competition in profession but also attracts some of the best brains and minds of the world. US was hugely open to this inflow of ideas, minds, brains, people from across all the shores of the globe till very recently when some inhuman and ghastly terrifying acts of Terrorism casted a serious doubt in the ideology of the nation as a whole. There was a feeling that perhaps being too open to the world and its people makes the survival unsustainable. The Global Recession which started in 2007 and only recently showing some signs of weaning in my view was greatest setback to the American Economy which was once merciless in its might.
Now the case of loss of European domination. One of the smallest continents of the world, at one time was a congregation of some hugely ambitious nations. The Sun was never setting in British Empire. The German and the Italian ideals of fascism had captured the imagination of the entire world. The entire European land was enriched with the smell of some of the purest literature, art, and other civilization aspects. The European industrialization was only getting replicated in several forms in several regions of the world. Not to forget the origin of the ideals of communism and socialism, precision engineering skills in Automobiles (Germany), Watches (Switzerland), Steel and Textile Industry (England), Clothes' Designing Industry (France) etc and the list goes on actually. But as it is rightly said the biggest strength of a person or a thing is actually his/her/its biggest weakness. Some of the European powers lost their strength in the said principle and some had their internal and political economic instability too heavy to handle given the size of their population and area. By the beginning of this century either the power of the previous European superpowers were hugely depleted or the potential of some of the European countries to be super power was lost. Add to the age factor of the demographics of the European nations, it can be rightly concluded about the unlikelihood of any European nation to hold a position of global domination in the near future.
After US, USSR (now Russia), Europe, the only region left in this world worth to be discussed in this topic is Asia whom I consider enormously universal in character. Please refer to my previous blog for my feelings. One of the Asian countries which were mightier to a great extent at the beginning of 20th century is Japan. Japan was unfortunate to be in the wrong side of the great World War 2. The dominance of the Japanese in the fields of electronics and nano-particles continued a while in the later half of the 20th century. But as is the story with European nations, age factor is not with Japan. By age factor, I mean the fraction of population active to contribute enormously to the economy of the nation. As age factor comes more and more to the picture, I bring the case of China and India. These huge countries with huge population somewhat underachieved over the last century.
The sizes of their economies were small fraction of the huge economies of America and European superpowers. But not now any more!!! The last few decades have shown the positive signs of how the world is waiting India and China to be super powers.
And let me try to explain why India should be a super power. I will address India as Indian Juggernaut hence forth in this blog. This term is inspired from Lord Jagannath who sets forward in His massive procession every year. His vehicle is enormous but composed of big wheels. Physics' law states that bigger radius mean larger amount of friction, but thankfully most of it is of rolling type rather sliding one which erodes the body of vehicle. But Rolling is pure freedom. Rolling is a physical phenomenon where every part of the body is given chance to be in motion, that too the value of the motion has a wide range of maximum and minimum. The top of the wheel is moving at twice the speed of that in the centre while the bottom is resting. But after half a revolution, the part which was at the bottom is given a chance to move at the same maximum speed which was enjoyed by some other part. Every part of the vehicle contacts the road. Power of contact, direct or indirect is enormous. Contact/Communication enormously shifts the balance of the game anytime. Lets us stay in touch with ourselves without any discrimination. Power generated by that will be enormous. Now what if someone strikes our enormous rolling Juggernaut, he will be crushed rather than pushed. Crushing is forever and eternal. We eradicate our enemy rather than giving him a chance to fight back once more. The fact that Lord Himself allows to be carried by His devotees signifies the Faith, which is of Indian type. Indian Faith is enormously powerful. Our Master allowing us disciples to carry Him, we start trusting Him completely. This sort of trust relationship will be highly demanded in any corporate and business setup. Anyone can guess how successful this type of enormously trusty organization is!!! And yes Our Lord also lets his spirit to be recycled continuously. That reflects the cycle of life and death. Our work (Nishkarma Karma) is universal; we are tribal people who believe in our freedom of work and expression. We cannot let compromises on our work. Our expression is spiritual; we work and speak our hearts out!!! We do not lie to the world. We believe in Truth, Sacrifice and Democracy. We are Indians, the new super power of the world. The entire world, so to say the entire Universe is welcome to our Land.
Jai Jagannath Swami Nayana patha gami bhabho tume!!!
(P.S : This blog took me about 2 and half months to compose it fully. All the time, I have been busy in exiting from a company, planning for a job change and travelling places for that, places like Delhi (My first "air trip" to city of Delhi on my "official" birthday this year was an amazing one!!!), Mumbai, Hyderabad, Bangalore, Bhubaneswar and parts of Orissa, Kharagpur and of course Pune, and getting over MBA admission interviews which are still on... Obviously, it has a significant spiritual touch!!!)
