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  For The Alternative to Emerge   (Technology & Automation is the Challenge)                                                                                                                 Lalit K Kaul To start with it may be useful to state that self centeredness and self interest are the basis for the contemporary societies driven by materialism; the political leadership has been assiduously driving our society towards achieving more and more material gains as that is the main index for economic growth and when they talk about human resource development, it’s all for the purpose of attaining higher and higher economic status. Human development has become synonymous with economic development sans concerns for deteriorating value system, ethics and the means adopted to achieve the desired economic goals. To look for the much cherished ‘Human Angle’ in this jungle shall be at the cost of being designated as retrograde. To compete is the Mantra and those unable to do so are n

  India Lives in Villages – Sri M K Gandhi                                                                                                                                   Lalit K Kaul Village is the basis (fundamental unit) of Swaraj. How possibly can a village be defined? In the era prior to the advent of modern technology and associated advances in the means of transportation and information         sharing, leading to the ease of travel and ideas exchange; the people living in different geographical locations mostly remained confined to it and its surroundings. The natural outcome of this confinement was to be that the communities living in disconnected geographical areas evolved on their own-may be differently from others- by way of interacting within their commune as also with the surrounding Mother Nature. It may be said that because of this intra community dynamics evolved a locally acceptable World View that defined a Value System comprising Right Vs Wrong, Moral Vs Imm