That was one of the key points mentioned Dr. Parakala Prabhkar, a doctorate from LSE and M.A., M.phil from JNU, Delhi.
Some of the key points he highlighted were:
1. India and Indian people always were wealth creators. It is a misconception that Indians focused too much on religion, god and philosophy. According to Kautilya, Dharmas rests on economy, economy depends on Rajya or the law and order, law and order rests on humility and respect for elders, respect for elders emanates from control of Indriyas or senses.
Indians always believed that economic well-being is the foundation of Dharma and not vice-versa. How can anyone haunted by scarcity be rightful. So in order to see that people follow dharma, it is essential that they are economically strong.
2. India has been attacked for more than 1200 years continuosly and only in the 19th century the British established control, even then not on the complete country. Though it is claimed that British ruled for 200 years, the actual complete control was for about 90 years only. During all the invasions, lots of wealth was carried away from India, again and again relentlessly but despite that India was rich.
3. In the 8th century India contributed about 33% to the world economy.
The gist of the talk ad discussion is that we, Indians have to interact with cultural self-confidence when dealing with the world. We had been rich, we are rich and we will be rich. We are rich in every aspect of life - cultural, social, political, religious, and even economic wealth creation.
Some of the key points he highlighted were:
1. India and Indian people always were wealth creators. It is a misconception that Indians focused too much on religion, god and philosophy. According to Kautilya, Dharmas rests on economy, economy depends on Rajya or the law and order, law and order rests on humility and respect for elders, respect for elders emanates from control of Indriyas or senses.
Indians always believed that economic well-being is the foundation of Dharma and not vice-versa. How can anyone haunted by scarcity be rightful. So in order to see that people follow dharma, it is essential that they are economically strong.
2. India has been attacked for more than 1200 years continuosly and only in the 19th century the British established control, even then not on the complete country. Though it is claimed that British ruled for 200 years, the actual complete control was for about 90 years only. During all the invasions, lots of wealth was carried away from India, again and again relentlessly but despite that India was rich.
3. In the 8th century India contributed about 33% to the world economy.
The gist of the talk ad discussion is that we, Indians have to interact with cultural self-confidence when dealing with the world. We had been rich, we are rich and we will be rich. We are rich in every aspect of life - cultural, social, political, religious, and even economic wealth creation.
One of the participants raised that our education system doesn't highlight all this and we are actually forgetting all these. We are confused as to whether we follow the west or dig deep inside.In my view, India is not about a country and Hindu is not a religion, both are referring to a civilisation that got strated and evolved in the midst of almost ideal conditions for human civilsation and being in these circumstances, so much knowledge and wisdom got developed. In our headless-chicken-run, we are fogetting that there is so much lying in our ancient literature. It is time for us to go back to school, learn sanskrit and decrypt all the wisdom lying within us.
For all of you who may read this post, my advice is learn sanskrit, study all the Indian ancient literature from a modern perspective and you wouldn't need even a MBA to become a Global leader.
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