The change of the Mahatma Gandhi Central University to North
Bihar Central University has come as
shocking to the nationalist and
people oriented intelligentsia. Champaran district which has been bifurcated
into Motihari and West Champaran districts of Bihar had been the first
successful experimental lab for Mahatma Gandhi’s non-violent movement for the
liberation of India from the British yoke. It was quite appropriate to name the
central university after the great Father of Nation whose struggles had
provided us this national democracy. But the change as it comes from the Union
Human resource Ministry of the Congress led UPA govt. is rather bewildering. Of
course the Indian National Congress is just carrying on lip service to the
father of nation, but this lip service too has given place to worshipping
everything western or American. It is not at all surprising that this
exposition has come just after the central govt. has decided to open its door
to multi brand retail sector along with aviation and media to FDI. Now as the
very legacy of Nehru-Gandhi has been given a good-bye, with the public sector taking a back seat in the Indian
economy, the question arises that which ideology the Congress is going to
profess in order to survive in the Indian polity? Our honourable P.M has
professed that ultimately he has found a way out of the current financial mess
he has landed the country into. But how
far and at what cost are some of the basic questions that have to been
answered to the voters when the Congress with its doubting allies go to the
general election not so far away. Actually, the crisis of the present economy
is the crisis of capitalist path of economy which is deeply bound with the International capital with its
center in USA. The economists who have studied in universities of the west have
only the European model in their mind who seldom gave thought to the Asian
model and their typical characterstics which have their own concerns and
philosophy. Actually, there is basic difference between the philosophy of the
Europe and Asia. Asia has been the harbinger of peace, tolerance and balance
with stress on the basics of life. Whereas Europe’s philosophy has been
basically enjoyment of life with whatever is earned with individual contentment
with little or less regard for the community’s well being. European life has
been individualistic whereas Asian life
has been socialistic. It has to be reminded once again that Mahatma Gandhi had
the basic Asian or rather Indian philosophy of life while he drew up Hind
Swaraj for the future development of the Indian economy. Opposite to the naive
thinkers who thought Gandhiji’s Gram Swaraj as feudal and alien to the modern
trend do not realize that the Mahatma had the four cardinal principals of the Hindu
religion in his mind when he sat to write Hind Swaraj the bible of the Gandhian
workers. Material prosperity has not been the goal of Asian life as it is
construed in the western way of life. There must be balance between the human
life and the nature around us. This is where our economy has failed. We have
encouraged big and huge factories which are catering to the needs of the market
and not the common people of the famished and under nourished countryside. Our
system of governance is still dependent on the civil servants of the British
legacy and a poor or common person from the villager is still today looked upon
in the govt. offices as somebody alien. Mr. P.M here is the point, where your
govt. has failed to deliver by not providing efficient and people oriented
administration. The present crisis can never be surmounted by opening the doors
of the economy to foreign investors but would complicate it with wider
political implications in the future which the present govt. fails to foresee. But
the coming days shall bluntly prove the fallacity of this system. History is
going to repeat the past.
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