WHAT LIES AHEAD ... 2

WHAT LIES AHEAD ... 2

Psychological forces are subtle but strong. Combination of wills can produce a mighty power. This is the secret of organisation. The great nations of the world are living examples of this coordination of wills, this activation of the national mind. Great civilisations have borne testimony to this truth historically. They rose when men united wills and they fell when they collided with each other that resolved to cipher gain or a regression in resolved terms. 

We are faced with such a predicament. We need a national ideology, a national narrative that defines us in essential terms where we can discover our roots, our heritage, our cultural moorings, our life's sustenance, our very identity as a civilisation. This has to be worked out if we are to survive as a people and progress. Our history, mauled and marred by more than a millenium of invasion and cultural intrusion, must be reassessed and rewritten. We are right now a bewildered nation with contrary conceptions confusing the commoner and rendering our national life reactionary and regressive. This, of course, is a temporary phase where the rising consciousness of the people post mass education is combating historically implanted antinational forces. But with higher education this will pass as the ignorant will give up their invidious ideology or will have to be made to give it up to secure national integration.

Written by Sugata Bose