Vision of India 2047 paragraph in 150 words
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My Vision of India: 2047 AD
N. Ram
Venturing to offer anything like a vision of a country as gigantic, as diverse and complex, as contradictory and mixed-up as India, more than three decades into the future, is a risky endeavour. It might also seem pointless, if you go by what economists want to call the myth of the long run.' Let me remind you of what one of the greatest of them, Lord Keynes, said in a 1923 tract on monetary reform about training your sights too far ahead: 'But this long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead. Economists set them selves too easy, too useless a task if in tempestuous seasons they can only tell us when the storm is long past the ocean is flat again."
But then there are two extenuating factors that seem to argue in favour of pressing on with the constant, the permanent theme of the D.S. Borker Memorial Lecture series as it progresses relentlessly towards the target date. The first extenuating factor is obvious: 2047 is not quite the long run Lord Keynes had in mind. It depends of course on the age group you belong to. 'In 2047', Madhu Dandavate noted in his 2000 lecture, the second in the series, 'our freedom will be 100 years old and my hypothetical age would be 123. I will fortunately not be there to confirm whether my vision of 2047 had proved to be wise or otherwise'. I too won't be around to confirm the wisdom or oth erwise of my projected vision for 2047 but many of you will be. The second extenuating factor is that we are not in a 'tempestuous season', although storms can't be ruled out in the polity and society if certain deeply entrenched negative trends that have gathered force in recent times are not combated and reversed.
You can, if you like, speculate on the likely spread and effects of the Maoist insurgency designated by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh as 'the single biggest internal security challenge ever faced by our country in the next decade and perhaps even circa 2047. But let me cite something else, the socio-political processes that led to the horrors of Muzaffarnagar that shook North India in August-September 2013, claiming 63 lives and leaving 50,000 people homeless. Whether these riots were deliberately staged as part of a political mobilisation strategy can be debated, but there can be no question that they formed the backdrop to the
Sixteenth D.S. Borker Memorial Lecture, delivered on 24 August 2014, New Delhi.