Dear Professional Colleague:
In the NIPM Conference at Baroda last week Lord Meghnad Desai spoke about how divisiveness is impeding development and argued for abolition of the caste system and a caste less society. Recently (October 2007) the Indian Society for Philosophical Research held a conference at Shimla where a group of experts from all over the country discussed on National Integration strategies and mechanisms. I presented a paper (though I could not attend the conference) where I have made same argument like Lord Meghnad Desai. Drawing from my experiences with the National HRD Network, Academy of HRD, IGNOU, IIMA and XLRI and various organizations where I worked I have argued how the divisiveness in Indian minds begins from early child hood with the caste system and how it gets operationalised in other forms and kills initiative, innovations and increases overheads of an organization or a nation. The recent events in Mumbai only confirm the loss to a city due to divisive tendencies. In its extreme form it could lead to many disruptive activities in a society, country, city, organization or even a department. As a young nation what we need is a lot many integrative minds. I am enclosing a presentation and a paper I have presented at the National Psychology Academy Conference held at IIT, Mumbai.
Please go through this and if you like this please circulate this as it is high time we recognize divisive tendencies in all of us and work towards building an Integrated India. We need a lot of introspection and resolution that we decide to avoid divisive tendencies in our own minds. Integration should begin with each one of us resolving and continuously introspecting about our own thoughts and actions.
Courtesy
T V Rao
From India, Coimbatore
733In the NIPM Conference at Baroda last week Lord Meghnad Desai spoke about how divisiveness is impeding development and argued for abolition of the caste system and a caste less society. Recently (October 2007) the Indian Society for Philosophical Research held a conference at Shimla where a group of experts from all over the country discussed on National Integration strategies and mechanisms. I presented a paper (though I could not attend the conference) where I have made same argument like Lord Meghnad Desai. Drawing from my experiences with the National HRD Network, Academy of HRD, IGNOU, IIMA and XLRI and various organizations where I worked I have argued how the divisiveness in Indian minds begins from early child hood with the caste system and how it gets operationalised in other forms and kills initiative, innovations and increases overheads of an organization or a nation. The recent events in Mumbai only confirm the loss to a city due to divisive tendencies. In its extreme form it could lead to many disruptive activities in a society, country, city, organization or even a department. As a young nation what we need is a lot many integrative minds. I am enclosing a presentation and a paper I have presented at the National Psychology Academy Conference held at IIT, Mumbai.
Please go through this and if you like this please circulate this as it is high time we recognize divisive tendencies in all of us and work towards building an Integrated India. We need a lot of introspection and resolution that we decide to avoid divisive tendencies in our own minds. Integration should begin with each one of us resolving and continuously introspecting about our own thoughts and actions.
Courtesy
T V Rao
From India, Coimbatore
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