Statement by WTO: “Prepare your people for globalization”….

What is the actual meaning of this word globalization? Is it to expand your global connectivity in terms of just economy and politics or is it to equally contribute in the betterment of completely ignored yet basic section of the society i.e. rural sector?
On one hand where we boast about the fact that in the last 10 years, the world’s total income has increased by average of 2.5 % a year, on the same hand, we cannot avoid the fact that even the number of poor in the world has also increased by 10 million. It means that top 1% of the world has the same combined income as the bottom 57% and this disparity is still growing.
New development projects coming up every other day gives us the reason to ignore the fact that though we are moving ahead in technology, but we are also ignoring that privatization and labor reforms which are pushing people off their lands and out of their jobs, and hence worsening their already bad state! From last 50 years in India, alone big dams have displaced more than 33 million people.
It’s so easy to imagine the elite journeys of the people in all corners of the world but it’s equally difficult to imagine the state of plight of those people who cannot even go back to their respective village homes form the place where they have come to earn minimum meals.
Yes, surely we are getting globalized and perhaps that’s the reason that even our heroes and role models are changing. There used be the time when a military man was what every child aspired to be. But today, Bill Gates is the role model. Though nothing is bad or wrong in it, but one should always keep a fine balance between reality and virtual world. We cannot just escape from the real composition of India, which consists of farmers and agricultural laborers.
Perhaps even after 60 years of independence, there is still so much to be worked upon. Just getting independence is not enough. Is every individual of our nation independent to think on his own and stand by the fact that he is correct? If we talk about the freedom of expression and right to speech, is it being implied in every corner of our country? Is every person independent in real sense, independent enough to fight for his own rights confidently? The answer is ‘no’ and yet we are so much busy to fight for nuclear deal just to be called as ‘globalised’.
What is the reason to put the fake mask of modernization on our ‘Indian’ faces? Just look at today’s youth who just feel so degraded if he has to talk in Hindi at some public place. Gone are the days when people used to go to mandir’s and religious places on their birthdays. Today’s discotheques, booze parties are the ways to enjoy any event, without which it is a source of embarrassment in front of their friends. They want to have the’ cool’ tag 24X 7.
Youth today is becoming the dictator. Be it in their personal context or the professional, they want to be the ruler of their own world. Although this kind of confidence and dynamism is really good but along with it they should try to remain grounded irrespective of their achievements. Perhaps that’s the reason why even free press, free elections, and independent judiciary also holds little meaning because every thing today is being equally commercialized and hence every thing is becoming a commodity. There is just no place for emotions and sentiments. One has to deal practically in every aspect of life, as per our so called as ‘modern’ society demand of!
We are spending crores of rupees for peace treaties, so as to maintain healthy relationships with other countries. But have we ever given a thought that how much is being spend on the majority of people who are fighting a war against hunger thirst, violation of their dignity? It’s a daily battle where sacrificial victims are being small the children who are dying of hunger or the poor farmers who are committing suicides and hence the complete rural structure of our nation who’s being effected.
Thus no matter how much globalised or modernized we may become, but Indian spirit has to be kept alive. There are still many people who are who are working from dawn till dusk so as to see our country progressing and if each one of us contribute just 2% of our heart and soul, we can make a difference in ‘today’ and bright ‘ tomorrow’.