Wisdom In Prison

Since the beginning of my conscious living, I have felt that lack of smooth access to wisdom is the biggest handicap for human growth. I feel that wisdom is not available to a simple soul. Wisdom is just not accessible to normal human being. Human being is born powerful. Even when, human being is born with all intellect of the world, how can some develop so much, while many continue their struggle to survive? The accessibility and availability of wisdom is the main reason. Is wisdom in prison, where the jailor has over-constitutional power for its freedom? Today, when whole world is networked, Internet knows about human mind much before any body knows about it, can we assure availability of wisdom to a simple soul?

The Economic Times from New Delhi dated 7 July 2006, carried out a very new trend. The paper gave editorial power to all the seven men from Infosys who dreamt in 80s to change their fate in India. When professionalism is at stake, discriminations are widely and openly distributed to deprived people, rulers are more concerned about their future than the future of the nation, intelligent people are publicly demoralized, knowledge commission is asked to read constitutions, the morale of the educated people can not be easily protected.

I have the privilege of having yahoo 360 to protect my motivation. I can write a blog. I feel that it will provide similar direction to other professionals, intellectuals and educated people. The Economics Times effort to call these seven people for editorial task is worth coming in my blog. I am quite happy to give the statements of all seven as published in the news paper. Further analysis of these statements compelled me to reach to a very dramatic and mind opening conclusions. It must interest every educated person on this earth.

The team of these seven stalwarts was led by Narayana Murthy. One member of the team, Kris Gopalakrishnan says, ‘we can definitely learn from how quickly you need to make decisions with potentially significant impact if you made a wrong choice.’ The other member K Dinesh says, ‘within a short time, you need to do it impartially.’ In these two statements, I find the source of the lack of wisdom in society. The decisions with potentially significant impact are taken in the editorial job of a daily news paper. The question of wisdom of the people dealing with this task is a big concern. Today when a conscious and successful person talks about the task, he mentions about the problems. Similarly the other person talks about impartiality. Is it easy to be impartial? Impartiality is just not as easy as even presumed. It is a deep subject in itself which I have discussed in my earlier blogs.

Narayana Murthy in his editorial note mentions that let the media reserve the prime time and front page to heralding the success of this hardworking majority rather than focusing on the misdeeds of few. None of the news paper concentrates on this aspect. The owner of the daily is committing a serious crime to bring down the morale of the masses every day. The poor is kept poor not only because of deprivation of basic amenities, but of good positive environments too. The editors of daily papers and magazines are committing blunder. Are they committing crime? We come to know about these when the people like Narayana Murthy writes his sentiments. The availability of wisdom is the choice of few. Can you make opinion based on front page of daily news paper? Be careful!

These seven people have described confidence in every page of the news paper. They have discussed successes. They have talked about achievements of individuals. They have mentioned about the struggle and frustration of hardworking people. They have talked about hope. India is vibrant with hope. There is no reason to feel otherwise. Anybody who talks deprivations, failure or subsidies is doing harm to humanity. Murthy has rightly said, ‘we have to win the war of honesty, decency, national pride and hard work over corruption, vested interest and petty politics.’ The whole world is hopeful for our growth and development. We can not ignore their expectations.

United States has understood the potential of this nation. They are taking two steps forward for our one step to help us to eradicate poverty and deprivation. We have been able to do developments for the last sixty years through brain drain, now it is time to do it through brain gain. Let developed country face brain drain!

The unique effort of The Economic Times is an encouraging step. I see hope. I visualize the availability of wisdom across the board. Can the willing minds, open eyes, conscious efforts and democratic environment be able to access wisdom? Are we ready to take the wisdom out of the prison? Can Internet provide access to wisdom for normal soul? Yes it can.