The modern India is not so modern after all

There has always been a debate on the perception of modernity. In India this debate is on even a wider level. As in India the transformation from traditional or religious dogma to scientific or rational thinking has been at it’s lowest. India has been engaged with rapid growth of higher education and rapid expansion of professional institutions. However, the scathing hand of the West has turned turtle the basic Indian psyche of happiness in scarcity, and, the same poor yet contented to have turned into an unhappy, rich, and neo-rich people. The education system in our country today has changed for the worse. The natural creative thought process in children has been shut down. Only the course material is given importance but reasoning it with real life isn’t important as the Teachers need to finish their portion in time. Hence, no class participation is encouraged. The only goal is to be bookworms to produce photocopy of what you swallow. All this is due to aggressive competition and in an aim to try to lead a lifestyle like the one in the west. The cultural complexity of India due to diversity in ecology, language, religion, family structure, and uneven introduction of technology. This context has shaped the course of higher education in general and psychology in particular. There is probably no other country where regional, caste and family loyalties are more important than the national interest. Corruption and division of society based on caste will ensure that India remains the same at the core. Our mindset (psyche) is such that it stops us from becoming a driving force to make a better India. Political parties exist in India to sustain one group of people in the country at the expense of a whole other than to promote a national agenda. This creates an inequality and deprivation for other groups. Thus, a cycle is created in which the group which was not in power earlier when comes into power conducts the same inequality created by the previous group which was in power earlier. Indian politicians do not hesitate to sell their country down the river and it does not require a high price. Therefore, we also need to look at psychological processes within cultural contexts, holistically. With these directions and prospects, the move toward indigenous psychology holds promise for the future of the country. The journey toward an indigenous psychology is in progress. First these strange alienated elite (dirty politics) have to be removed from the positions of power and influence, and they will not give up without a fight. Second this is not the psyche of a country which has the oldest culture in the world - it is the psyche of a culture that is continuously enslaved to foreign contacts. Thus, this dependency also needs to be reduced. Our mindset needs a change for the better, for a better India. Outer development without inner transformation of the psyche is not worth praising. We must rise. Education system should be changed and made more practical. People should be encouraged people to bring about change in fact even be the change. We need a renewed attitude to change India at the core. We need to develop and organize our thought process. One should always keep in mind that openness comes from within and not from the outside; likewise modernity comes from how one perceives things and not from what one shows from the outside. Thus, India really needs to adapt a hardworking and determined attitude to help bridge this gap between wisdom and foolishness and come out and deliver the most crucial necessity at this point of time to make a better India. As a failure to overcome this substandard thought process would lead us to a disastrous state and so I conclude that modern India is not so modern after all. Note: This post is not meant to hurt or offend anyone’s feelings, this post is just my opinion and your comments and feedbacks are welcomed.