The author of this article is well aware of the fact that he is not an astrologer to make predictions on the future of a state which, among other things, depends on factors that are beyond the control of human beings. Equally he is not unaware of the fact that the development of man through ages, that we call as history, has been brought about by great ideas which at the beginning were mere imaginations. So, the following narrative on the future of India is derived partially from his experience as an avid reader of history and partially on the premise of pure imaginations which are no less important than any other factor in the making of the future of a state.
At the outset, let it be made clear that anything that ever happens in any civilisation, happens because of a tremendous and all-pervading philosophical system that the ancients of ours referred to as Darshana or Vichar-dhara. And it is a proud moment for this writer to state that no other civilization in the world has left such an array of philosophical systems that the subcontinent has produced to determine the course of its social evolution through ages. The author is equally proud of the fact that the historical evolution in the subcontinent in the past ages turned around the ideas which were rooted in its own soil. A civilization with a philosophical system system which is deeper than anything ever made in the name of philosophy, and a people who have been known for creativity all throughout the existence of their civilization, deserve a future which is built on their own ideas and institutions.
It is here that the writer is forced to make a statement on 75 years of lost independence. If we look at the trail of our Vichar-dhara of the past 75 years of social evolution in the subcontinent, we will be forced to bow down our head in shame. During the first 50 years of our lost Independence, we danced to the tunes of Nehruvian socialism which was a murky cloud made up of outlived modern European philosophy. The Other Vichar-dhara which challenged the Nehruvian socialism was the communist propaganda whose proponents preferred to toe the lines autocracy either in Russia or in China. When these two vichar-dharas comprehensively failed the people of India, knowingly or unknowingly a misguided few slipped into the trap of Hindutva, the creators of which had learnt their lessons from the fascist experiments in Germany and Italy.
It is on this background that the writer wants to make his statements on the future of India. India will make her future on her own ideas and not on the ideas which were imported from outside her territories. A country like India, whose living languages are older than every other language in the world, whose philosophical systems are deeper than every other philosophical system in the world, whose people are as diverse as the humanity, cannot be expected to make a future on the ideas imported by the unworthy progenies of the great Indian generations that had lived their own ideas in the past.
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