THE DECADENCE OF THE DAY AND THE FUTURE FRUITION ... 1

There is such a deal of disguised unemployment of talented people who could be of yeoman service to the nation that it feels frustrating at times. Mediocrity rules the roost in this age of falsity and fabrication when the connoisseur's eye to detect talent and the patron's support to nurture it are a thing of the past. Now the genius is a vanishing tribe and the pedestrian performer by common consent is ascribed the selfsame title. Culture is plummeting by the day as retrograde cultural democracy by force of popular mandate dictates tastes to the groundling. Values are being devalued and sophistication of art and artistry attributes of a bygone era. In such a dismal scenario it is meet that we attempt at least to take stock of the situation and redress, if possible, the cultural mess we find ourselves in. At the outset we must identify talent and make fullest use of such in national interest. Men of merit must be made available their proper work-sphere and a congenial environment for their highest fruition. Overall literacy levels must be improved and for this massive governmental funding and infrastructure-building are necessary. Priority must be given to higher education in India and the training of teachers to equip them to train students who are the future of our country. Instead of blind westernisation of the academic system, emphasis must be on nationalisation of education along its brightest grain. A community of well-educated students can in due course of time set in a cultural revolution whence will emerge New India with the vision for the future.