Dear Professional Colleague, In the NIPM Conference at Baroda last week, Lord Meghnad Desai spoke about how divisiveness is impeding development and argued for the abolition of the caste system and a casteless society. Recently (October 2007), the Indian Society for Philosophical Research held a conference at Shimla where a group of experts from all over the country discussed National Integration strategies and mechanisms. I presented a paper (though I could not attend the conference) where I made the same argument as Lord Meghnad Desai. Drawing from my experiences with the National HRD Network, Academy of HRD, IGNOU, IIMA, XLRI, and various organizations where I worked, I have argued how divisiveness in Indian minds begins from early childhood with the caste system and how it gets operationalized in other forms, killing initiative, innovations, and increasing overheads of an organization or a nation. The recent events in Mumbai only confirm the loss to a city due to divisive tendencies. In its extreme form, it could lead to many disruptive activities in a society, country, city, organization, or even a department. As a young nation, what we need are a lot of integrative minds. I am enclosing a presentation and a paper I presented at the National Psychology Academy Conference held at IIT, Mumbai. Please go through this, and if you like it, please circulate this as it is high time we recognize divisive tendencies in all of us and work towards building an Integrated India. We need a lot of introspection and resolution so that we decide to avoid divisive tendencies in our own minds. Integration should begin with each one of us resolving and continuously introspecting about our thoughts and actions. Courtesy, T V Rao
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