The exercise of imagining the future of an individual aided by either a positive outlook or negative thoughts and pondering over the country’s social fabric in foreseeable future taking into account the current scenario are different cups of tea. Public speakers, knowledgeable about the land’s history of several centuries, writers of articles referring to its distant past and even many lay people take fascination to glorify the people of those eras for their track record in many areas of human pursuit, particularly literature, music, sculpture, agriculture, culinary inventions, civil engineering and so on, not to forget statecraft under the rule of different dynasties that endured for long periods. In the backdrop of the land’s identity and its people’s customs still intact to a considerable degree to this day, one is obliged to feel concerned about what portends for the country’s later generations, while the world is watching the goings on all over the land, particularly the clear signs of disintegration of its social fabric.
The French astrologer, physician and reputed seer Michel de Nostredame, commonly known as Nostradamus (1503-1566) is credited with having accurately predicted many major world events. English writer H.G. Wells (1866-1946), reputed for his prophetic vision, foresaw the advent of aircraft, space travel, nuclear weapons, satellite television and also WWW (World Wide Web). Advocates of disaster amidst us aver that all will never be like the glorious part in the country again. The onus of proving them wrong is that of the land’s diaspora, now and later.
