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Are Innovation, Discovery and Enterprise absent from India because of a culture of conformity or education system?

Created by : Kiran Kumar, Creative Director, Kristos Unlimited  | 05 31 2010 07:14:42 +0000
Keywords : are innovation discovery and enterprise absent from india because of a culture of conformity or education system?
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I stand for culture. I don't think there is another nation which is so militantly protective of its cultural heritage than India is. We live in a nation where we celebrate the fact that we invented the Zero and turned the whole world of math around, but push the fact that we have not done anything of note since. We have political bodies who have taken it upon themselves to "Protect" the cultural heritage by banning and forcing people to desist from celebrating "Western/ Alien" practices like Valentine's day etc. We are a nation divided right down the middle between the haves and the have nots, between the urban and the rural. We divided between those who think Culture is a fluid organic thing, in that it changes from generation to generation, yet we hang on to it like we'd drown if we don't. We are a nation ruled by men and women who have capitalized on political opportunism, who neither have the intellect or the insight to understand that culture is nothing more than a collective self expression, they seek to protect that which should not be and have let go of that which they had to protect and nurture- our education system. Most of our PhD Theses would be rejected on the grounds of plagiarism in Universities across the world. Our movies are directly lifted from Holywood flicks while the songs are blatant plagiarizations of hits from across the world. Yet we do not seem to care, it is because we seek to supress the voices of dissent with a vengeance and nurture voices of conformism like the brave new world in Huxlley's depiction of a world where everything is utopian not because things have truly changed but because man has been finally forced to conform to the laws set by the Haves. Yet History is witness to the fact that where dissent arose in culture inventions and were discoveries were made and where conformism ruled, nothing but nothing was accomplished.
By Kiran Kumar, Creative Director, Kristos Unlimited  | 05 31 2010 07:14:42 +0000
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