This blog aims to create a platform-in my capacity as a participant- for first creating a ideological platform for India of the future and at the same time evolve into an active machinery of synergic actions.

To begin with, a page India 35 by 2035 has been created which will act as a platform for coming together of people before we evolve into a group.We have to come up with vision for the nation,society,type of growth we seek etc.

In this direction,i am putting my views on how an future indian-utopian individual- might be like.This holds good for a person irrespective of nationality.

Utopian individual

My model of utopian society fundamentally depends on the conception of the ideal individual. It is for a critical insight I put this “utopian person” before you.

The person should display following two traits. First is knowledge and second is character. It is the expanded meaning of these two that the secret lies.Knowledge  can be broadly put into two categories- specific knowledge and general knowledge

Specific knowledge

Every person on this planet has to carry out a task in order to earn a living. It is very essential that not only he knows the basis minimum but he must also continuously strive to achieve excellence in his field of pursuit.

This is quite logical. Every person spends at least a third of his day doing his job. It is only by striving to be best and continuously improving himself he can strive to gain self satisfaction. As per my understanding, it is only by doing what you want to do, one can remain happy.

General knowledge 

Now lets come to general knowledge. This has been expanded by me to mean everything else. It does include basic literacy and science. But it includes an understanding of basic sociology, psychology, philosophy, history, polity, economics, geography.A person having general knowledge has wisdom, empathy and is tolerant and compassionate. It is responsibility of education system to give this. Only such individuals can form a harmonious society and peaceful world.

Perhaps it would be fruitful to go a little deeper into this part. This is not a bookish knowledge crammed and reproduced for exams. It is rather knowledge one has assimilated. Only such a person can make a decision about his own good and for his society.

Character

The last but very important thing is character. Character is result of an accumulation of habits which helps in ensuring that the individual makes good decision by instinct. Many times we do not have time to think deeply before taking a decision. Like our reaction to a standing lady, our reaction to an abusing person, our reaction to beggars. In such cases it is our character that determines how we behave toward them. Basically we may broadly split character/virtues into wisdom, beneficence, courage, justice, hope and empathy. Here it may be prudent to look slightly deeply into a virtue of integrity.

Also, integrity is the ability to stand for what one believes. It is coherence between our belief system and our action. This is so essential for development of trust in society .basically whether a person will enact what he believes in is determined by integrity itself. Clearly the development of a sound character is self correcting long winding process.

This completes the requirements of utopian individual.

The utopian society

But we know all might not be perfect. Each must strive toward the end. At the same time, if people  have empathy and are tolerant  then despite this imperfect world we will have a harmonious situation.

In any system around 10 % may be absolutely honest and around 10% may be incorrigibly corrupt. Rest 80% behave dependent on environment.So, while we may strive to create utopian individual yet we must create institutions and environment which makes it easier to do good and hard to do wrong. Then will we achieve the utopian society.

The breakthrough

Lets suppose each and every individual on this planet has attained all this qualities. Will that ensure equality? No. we will still have a scenario in which some people will be better than other and some will be worse. In short situation will be similar to now. So it is clear inequality is unavoidable.

What is sought to be avoided is that despite this inequality we have a harmonious society. We must accept each and every individual is giving his level best to improve and achieve his goal. Some might be misguided-as in pursuing divergent goals and hence are less productive, others might be lacking resources. Reasons are infinite for explaining this differential and inequality.  But these reasons do not negate the fact that each individual is trying his level best; and this should build an air of empathy and respect for each other. But these traits are indeed developed only by character and knowledge. Such is a society-ideal society.

The pathway

People say positive thinking helps a lot. It is secret of all success.  If there is a field where it is needed the most it is in conception of human nature.  We ought to shun the belief that man is an animal eating each other. Nation cannot become powerful by ruining others. We ought to start believing that we can compete yet form a harmonious society with individual who strive toward perfection.