Whether humanity on planet Earth has progressed or regressed during the time span of thousands of years, one can surmise that its human populations in most countries across the world, including India, are still in the get going mode. If some countries among about 200 of them have progressed on various counts more than some others, the difference is a matter of degree, apart from viewing their progress through diverse prisms — material, moral, spiritual, behavioural, emotional and so on. Judging the level of any progress or otherwise is bound to vary according to who or which agency, universally recognised or not, gets accepted. Africa, which was bestowed the dubious distinction as a dark continent for long is now catching up with other countries that have graduated as developing rather than underdeveloped. India is almost in the league of developed nations, although the gap with some well-marked countries continues to be yawning. Even as the quality of relationships among different countries of the world has left much to be desired, let us focus on the extent of disharmony among India’s diaspora in general and the guardians of administration in different political parties in particular.
Specific qualities of head and heart that individuals are prescribed by the past philosophers and mentors of society at different times for sustaining happiness and life’s comforts to all in the mass are replete in the country’s literary wealth. While many erudite public speakers across the country remind their captive audiences about the imperatives of adhering to those attributes, their voices have tended to have got muffled by the cacophony in public domain.
