We must conceive of our model of progress and development, in the light of our own culture, our past traditions, present requirements, and aspirations for the future. We should study in depth the western paradigm, and benefit from it wherever possible, but not accept it as our model for future. Apart from our own cultural heritage and rich historical experience, we have before us examples and experiments of some non-white countries, such as, say, Japan or Mao’s China. Japan, we learn, has kept its cultural traditions intact, while exposing itself selectively to western technology; and Mao, who is credited with sinification of Marxism itself, had guts to proclaim that ‘Modernisation is not Westernisation’.

Author: D B Thengadi

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