Growth is Our Birthright!

The developments, which were witnessed in Western countries, took more than 100 years to grow and mature. The long period of 100 years provided comfortable time for individuals and families to unlearn and make changes depending upon the situations. They remained comfortable to unlearn things and learn new things in few generations time. But the kind of development, Asian countries, Muslims, African Americans etc are witnessing or shortly will be witnessing in this Information Technology era is hardly giving time to individuals or families of even one life-time forget about getting generations. The changes are taking place so fast and so much that one individual in one lifetime cannot simply perceive and learn. But we the people of developing countries, Muslims and African Americans have the advantages of already seen the development through TV, literature and other medium of communication. They have the complete set of experienced observed by the people of last century. Even though practically facing the situation is really mind-boggling. That is where, the importance of ‘Unlearning’ is very vital not only for the individual growth but for the growth of society, states, countries and rather whole humanity. These changes are not affecting millions now but billions (as per present estimates of 2004, 1.1 billion people live in extreme poverty) of people of this world. Unlearning is very important and essential. The skill has to be acquired, harnessed and innovated. The NGOs and other charitable organizations have to come forward to take up these Herculean tasks for eliminating the social gaps. The human rights activists have to initiate their activities in these directions. The knowledge of unlearning has to be converted as mass movements.

We must consider the whole world as one family. We should cross the barrier of religion, region, caste or creed for making relationships or marriages. Generally, we had been contented with meeting and making family based on caste, language or region. We should stop marriages based on caste or region. We must learn from Hema Malini or Amir Khan. We must carefully witness the growth chart of Wafah Dufour Bin Laden who is aspiring to quench her thrist for stardom. The time has come when we should openly welcome and institutionalized entry of people from across the world. We should stop asking the people of their caste and region to make an opinion or companion. Growth is an intense human feeling. Every individual born on this earth wants to achieve growth. No body wants to live a secluded life in the forest and jungles without basic amenities. No body wants to just die just like that if given a chance. The knowledge and exposure remains the only hurdle in the growth of individuals. The technological developments have provided immense opportunity to individuals to garb for their benefits. The growth of technology is boosting the growth of humanity in a big way.

The access and approach in this direction will change the overall thinking of the human beings. The kind of self-confidence, which will be generated in the new environment of accessibility and learning, they will pave the way for new approaches towards life. Human beings, who have suffered for centuries and were forced to do very rough or menial work, would find a very new and encouraging yellow color jobs in service sectors through their gained knowledge. The jobs which will emerge in these sectors will compel the civilization to unlearn their old needs of local or regional languages, close society and inherent culture. The people will opt for a better life and better location with basic amenities. Today, if Gandhiji would have been around, he would not have talked about non-violence or non-cooperation to awaken the fearful people but would have shown them the benefit of video conferencing, e-mail facilities and yellow color jobs in ITES (Information Technology Enable Services), sitting in front of the computer screen and talking to the world. The knowledge-based society will force innovation in the years to come in a systematic manner. A well-balanced and well-educated young person will be sufficiently motivated to take up the entrepreneurships through innovations. The need of the capital will be met by the growth of economy across wider section of population. Even Muslims will not be way behind. The Hamas or Bin Laden will be thing of past. It may be matter of few years.

Once the catch 22 of innovation grips developing people, they will almost encounter the situations what American or European had experienced during Industrial Revolution in the last century. The Information Revolution and IT Revolution have shown the path to the growing population. They have provided tremendous confidence. They have generated sufficient capital to boost entrepreneur culture. Rich starts craving and initiate living much better life; poor starts crave to live a life of rich rather initiate living life of rich. There is a tremendous surge of better life all around. We shall be in a position to generate sufficient capital to recognize, respect and harness the calibre and intelligence of an individual. When Muslim women can do this, why not other individuals? When niece of Osama does this, there is no reason other Muslim young will not crave for this. The broad exposure of better life will show the path to the children of next generation.