To modernise or not to modernise is not the main or the more relevant question before the mankind today. Modernisation is only the means and not an end in itself. What is the end, the ultimate goal? According to Dharma, it is the complete, solidified, unintermittent, eternal happiness of all. To the extent to which modernisation is helpful for this purpose it is welcome. But if this supreme goal is to be achieved through the instrumentality of modernisation, we must cease to identify it with westernisation

Author: D B Thengadi

Source: Modernization without Westernization