Friday, January 28, 2011

India – Non formal model at its core

Swami Vivekananda has said:
Each soul is potentially divine; the goal in life is to manifest the Divinity within by controlling the nature internal or external. Do this work or worship, psychic control or philosophy by one or more or all of four. This is the whole of religion. All the doctrine or dogmas, temples or rituals, books or forms are nothing but secondary details.

We Indian understand this thoroughly. Even more than Swami Vivekananda too in all letters & spirits. We have always termed all formal ways and methods as secondary and primarily followed the spiritual ways. It manifests in our mundane affairs too as well. All of our governance and administrative models were formal but yet they were practiced through spirits only. Strict formalities were flexibly molded and only essence was taken into considerations.

British rule did the most cruelty upon us; they cursed us by introducing us RIGID FORMAL INSTITUTIONS. Even Mughals also did not changed our indigenous systems of governance & administrations tried to get friendly our and then got melted into our flow. While the British rule harmed the system by introducing RIGID FORMAL INSTITUTIONS. All types of formalities involved became mandatory to perform the way British Rule liked and preferred.

As voluminously described by Sri Dharampalji in his book named as “The Beautiful Tree” we had non formal indigenous education system. This was studied and reported by the contemporary British collectors in respective Zillas in India. Book refers and narrates that we always had non formal education system. The Apprenticeship or the “On the Job” training method has been developed by Indians since ages. All trades and craftsmanship has been passed over to coming generations through same method only. While the British rule, Lord Macaulay insisted and implemented formal education systems. He further declared that Indian schools run should mandatory have its own building and the Trust running the school must be registered under Trust Act or Society Act. Naturally 80% of Indian schools running had to close and then the British Rule introduced their Formal education systems.

Let’s come to our main issue of RIGID FORMAL INSTITUTIONS. We all know even if we have a forged degree of M.B.B.S. we can’t save life of a patient. But yet the RIGID FORMAL INSTITUTIONS have their paper work ready and handy. We also say and quote that a truck load of paper work can be just pushed aside just one single word of Truth. Post independent era we also continued with the RIGID FORMAL INSTITUTIONS and hence just paper formalities are continuously followed without getting the real zeal.

But unknowingly India has produced a wonder and we should be proud that we have a legacy of Voluntary organizations so called as NGOs (not for profits or Charity organizations). The growth and development of Voluntary organizations has really leaded the India where it is right now. The role and participation of the states and central government can be easily challenged and doubted. The extent and the real reach of formal institutions have certainly their own limitations. Had we not have the legacy of Voluntary organizations in various filed we would have been in real deep trouble. The business legends Tatas have all companies owned by the Tata’s Trusts and we all know that the profits earned by Tata Company’s goes to charity through Tata Trusts. We all know that such voluntary organizations are tirelessly working in the interests of people and are supporting many noble and charitable causes. All of our education institutions fall under the categories of Voluntary organizations since they are run by some or other society or Trust. Many such Trusts/ Organizations have been taken over by Governments and have made mandatory for appointing Governmental representative on the Governing councils of such institutions.



We fail to observe such example in reverse order. The role and participation of Voluntary organization in governmental organization and machinery remain silent and has been weak enough. It can be really increased and enhanced by allotting more powers to them. In order to get Voluntary organizations more powerful and making their participation we should make mandatory to ensure the implementations of every Government schemes through such Voluntary organizations.

May I suggest your kindness to reduce the corruption in governance and administration to enhance and encourage the participation of voluntary organizations. Their enhanced participation will enable us the fully transparent and result oriented implementation of government schemes.

Class war a poetic myth

1) The so called Communist and socialist philosophies believe and have based their entire theory on class war. Accordingly they have divided the human society between 2 halves as the haves and have not’s. Both have a clash between themselves and haves exploit the others and are enjoying the entire wealth on the earth. Therefore a pressing need is felt to bring a socio-political revolution and the wealth should be under direct custody of the state and society should get equal rights over the wealth. This is how the theory has been made written and huge history since past 100-125 years witness it.
2) If we browse through the classical oriental and occidental literature both poetry and prose we often found that always there has been wars and battles between two kings and empires. Any country having a history of more 2000 years of documented shows same. We often found that the so called haves the rich and wealthy section of society kept themselves busy in fighting among themselves means only haves fight with the Haves and vice versa they have not’s too keep themselves busy with quarrelling among themselves.
3) It was suddenly flashed in literature and poetry and new form of clash was started shown in the media too. The literature and poetry based on such class war theory started getting philosophical support and then it got established that there is a call war. In reality the Tata’s are fighting with the Birlas, and Ambani’s are busy in tackling their business rivalry corporate. In fact the Haves and the have not’s live mutually together in the society and so the show is still going on and on.
4) The year 2008-2009 witnessed a huge global melt down and all haves had to shatter down their wealth by billions of dollars, despite they haven’t recovered from the global fiscal calamity since past 3-4 months we are getting news of huge charity amounts being donated by all the haves from all over the world. Its puzzle to me.
5) The Russia and the China largest sponsors and supporters of the Communism and the socialism have underwent a huge socio and political changes into their systems during past 20 odd years and at present they are far different than what they were supposed to be.
6) I personally doubt that they have come out of this poetry myth of class wars, but unfortunately India has not seen the realization in this myth. We still see and look at the hero of any cinema, drama and novel or short stories as a revolutionary who stands apart and fight for the poor the have not’s. it has indirectly generated millions of rupees wealth in art, literature, poetry and cinema industry and has nurtured the Naxalism. 7) We must come out of this myth immediately ban such so called class war theory and must come out of such wonderland.

वर्गलढा एक कविकल्पना

१) साम्यवादी आणि समाजवादी विचारसरणी वर्ग लढ्यावर आधारित आहे. त्या अनुसार समाजात २ वर्ग आहेत, १ आहे रे आणि दुसरे नाही रे. आहे रे नाही रेंचे शोषण करून श्रीमंत होत असतो आणि या दोन वर्गांचा लढा सामाजिक आणि राजकीय क्रांती च्या रूपाने उभा करून समाजात समानता आणणे हे यांचे उद्देश्य आहे / होते. २) पण प्रत्यक्षात पूर्वेत आणि पश्चिमेत दोन्ही कडील देशात जर अभिजात साहित्य वाचले तर असे दिसून येते की २ राजांमधेय्च लढाया झाल्या आहेत. गेल्या १०० वर्षांतील काव्य नाट्य, साहित्य कृतींमध्येच फक्त वर्ग लढा इ वाचावयास मिळते आहे. आजही टाटा बिर्लाशी लढतो आहे, अंबानी त्यांनाच समकक्ष अश्या स्पर्धकांशी लढतो आहे. आहेरे आणि नाहीरे तर मिळून मिसळून एकत्र उद्योग, समाज इ चालवीत आहेत. ३) मुळात हे दोन वर्ग समाज रथाचे २ चाके आहेत. त्या दोन चाकांमध्ये अंतर आहे त्या अंतरामध्येच तर समाजाचा रथ चालू आहे, जर हे दोन्ही चाके एकत्र आली तर समाज रथ कोसळून पडेल. वर्ष २००८-०९ मध्ये खुपा भयंकर अश्या आर्थिक आपत्ती आल्या होत्या. आजही आहेरे वर्ग त्यातून पुरेसा सावरला देखिल नाही. पण तरीही गेल्या ३ महिन्या पासून सगळी कडून करोडो डॉलर्स च्या देणग्या जाहीर होत आहे असे दिसते आहे. ४) चीन व रशिया हे दोघेही साम्यवादी देश गेली २० वर्षांपासून आप आपल्या देशात दूरगामी व मूलभूत असे परिवर्तन करून केव्हाच मोकळे झाले आहेत. आजचा रशिया व चीन हा १००% साम्यवादी देश नाहीच मुळी. ५) पण भारत मात्र अजूनही कला, नाटके, सिनेमा साहित्य व काव्य प्रांताद्वारे अजूनही नायक म्हणजे क्रांतिकारी व तो आहेरे ना धडा शिकवून नाहीरे चे राज्य स्थापित करणारा तारणहार असेच समजून चालीत आहे. यात हजारो करोडो रुपयांचे सिनेमा, नाट्य, साहित्य उद्योग पोसला जात आहे त्याही पेक्षा खतरनाक नक्षलवाद हि जोपासिला जात आहे. मूलभूत चूक न सुधारणे हे आम्हा भारतीयांचे दुर्दैव आहे.