The Paradigm of Indian Psyche

Sometime before, today in eve, I had  really made up my mind of expressing myself, not just in my talks but as also in what I write (a thing which from time immemorial had been consistency asked by Yayaver). I was going through one of his articles and a thought incited to write something

“Conversations have three levels : people, incidents and ideas. The lowest form of conversation is about people. When we go up one rung we reach incidents which have a slightly larger spectrum than talking about people. But the conversation which really matters is when we talk about ideas, because they are universal and live beyond time and space.” - Javed Akhtar

If this thought had been took up positively by a person as he/she was supposed to perform, things would have been much different. The irony of the situation is that the proper balance of conversation level between the strata of persons is totally the other way round.

 A commoner needs to think about not only persons, incidents but also about ideas while if you consider the case of common Indian psyche the only thing explicitly visible is the concern about persons(mostly) and incidents(sometimes, that also when media pays due respect to all type of  incidents) and never about ideas. Whilst policymakers need to think not only about ideas but also about persons because it is they for whom policies are meant and not paper/book.

The disadvantage due to this proposition is that a person never understands his/her accountability and responsibility to society’s growth. The social science quotient of a person is left bare. Its consequence, Everything in the system suffers: there is no generation of new ideas, no eradication of problems of society; even solutions reached are not in accord with problems. A commoner is disillusioned about role and duty & starts viewing money as the only viable elixir and thus policymaker is never made to realise about his own duties.

It is true that “The conversation which really matters is when we talk about ideas, because they are universal and live beyond time and space.” Because only when the above said is achieved there can be a situation where every person contributes in all respect and a PERFECT Utopia is deemed achievable.