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Good morning everyone present. I feel immensely privileged to have got the opportunity to express my views on ' Are we ready to face tomorrow?’. Ovid has very wisely said, “If you are not ready today, you will be even less so tomorrow.” If we take an honest stock of our readiness for facing tomorrow, I am not very confident about myself; nor am I confident about my country, India; nor am I confident about the world. Let’s focus on all the three aspects one by one.
Firstly, talking about myself; if I any emergency rears its head in my life, I don’t think I am ready for it. for example, if our negihbouring, hostile country, Pakistan attacks our country, say our city with nuke-tipped missile, I don’t think our city has all the efficient and foolproof infrastructure such as advanced air defense system to protect our city. Nor do we have underground bunkers to take refuge in the emergency of a nuclear attack.
Secondly, talking about my country, India; as all of us are aware of the nefarious alliance between Pakistan and China that is always working to destabilizing India, I don’t think India is ready to fight and defend herself in case both the countries simultaneously attack her. Every other day terrorists are targeting the military bases and inflicting heavy losses of life and infrastructure; if our forces are unable to nip such attacks in the bud, how can they stem the attacks from both the countries?
Ladies and gentlemen, it is a matter of great privilege for me to welcome you this afternoon. At the outset, I wish to thank this august institution for inviting me to talk on the subject “are we ready to face tomorrow”.
Let me begin by referring to a book that I recently read. Titled ‘Abundance’, this book is written by Peter H. Diamandis and Steven Kotler. Below the title of the book a line has been written which reflects abundant optimism, as it says “the future is better than you think”. The book analyses how newer and better discoveries /inventions will be made, how research will help in debottlenecking many processes etc. After reading this book, I’m convinced of the bright future ahead of us, but we shall be able to visualise it only if we stopped believing in the prophets of doom and are able to remove the smokescreen of negativity around us.
With scientific progress set at a frenetic pace, economic development at a sober rate and the conveniences of better healthcare, easier travel and newer job opportunities, mankind has a lot in its favour. We just have to equip ourselves with better education. India has another unique advantage in that it’ll have a much younger population than many other leading countries of the world, hence others will have to depend on us for providing the major percentage of workforce that the world shall need in the coming 50 years.
Man is trying to venture into newer areas of space and launching satellites with increasing rapidity. So much of money is being spent in this area. I’m optimistic one day a part of the world’s population shall settle down in some other planet or planets, making more room for those that decide to stay back.
In spite of being optimistic on most counts, I would like to mention before you a few words of caution. We must immediately reduce the conflicts that abound around the world, uproot terrorism, remove hunger, introduce delivery of better healthcare and ensure more equitable distribution of our resources; if these few things are taken care of, then there’d be no stopping us from marching ahead. We shall be ready to face tomorrow with a smile on our faces.