As I go round the villages and towns of India,I find no magic has wrought by the so called Globalisation effects. Yes- in urban cities, I find a dramatic transformation due to flush of new found fortunes. The sleeping villages of Bihar, UP, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Mahrashtra, Rajasthan still cling on to their feudal cultures and pristine natural beauty attended by its own beliefs and faiths. I do not expect to see these villages or hamlets transforming in to a metropolitan centres. But having said that I am also worried about the unscrupulous men and women from the cities migrating to the rural areas to destroy, capture and convert the rural settings into concrete jungles.
They are keen to introduce milk sachets as part of their efforts to accumulate their wealth instead of availing of pure cows' milk. Import vegetables cereal from far lands to feed the local people, thereby making the villagers lazy inactive and forget traditional talents- a new colonisation of mind , body and soul. This must be resisted. People in villages must wake up to preserve their age old and time tested habits and cultures preserve them for future generations while at the same time extend the benefits of modern medical,educational and infrastructural facilities.
Indigenisation rather than import dependency must be the hallmark.We have no time,I am disturbed and I am being overtaken by events.My voice gets drowned in the hum drum of modern greed.
Let's awake arise and bring the real growth and not depend upon out-dated text book recommendations!
