How many attacks have taken place before, but no one has been able to destroy the Indian Sanatan culture.

India has been a living nation since ancient times, it is not just a piece of land. Shankar is said to reside in the pebbles of India. In recent years, heritage is also being given full attention in the economic development of India and along with economic development in India, adequate attention is also being given to cultural development. Due to which India’s economic growth rate remains strong compared to other countries. In fact, now many other countries, including developed countries, are also getting attracted towards Indian Sanatan culture to solve their economic and social problems and to accelerate their economic development.

India had achieved political independence only 75 years ago, but India’s eternal culture has been going on since ancient times and is millions of years old. India has been known as the ‘Golden Bird’ and the strength of Indian eternal culture has been recognized by the whole world. The whole world has been attracted towards India to see its religion, philosophy, heritage, Teej, festivals, flavors and unity in diversity. India has also been called the land of gods, it is the land of offering, it is the land of tarpan and it is the land of dedication.

In recent times, tireless efforts have been made to conserve, preserve and enhance the cultural heritage of India, especially during the last decade. The attraction of thousands of years of Indian civilization and culture is such that no matter how many storms come, the Indian Sanatan culture remains unbroken. However, the civilizations of some countries like Greece, Greece, Iran etc. were completely destroyed.

Indian Sanatan culture has not only united India but has also connected the entire world with India. Now an important chapter is being written in India in the form of ‘Ek Bharat- Shrestha Bharat’. India has done many incomparable works during its presidency of the G-20 group of countries. During its presidential tenure in the last one year, India has surprised all the countries of the world by organizing more than 200 meetings of member countries on various important topics in different cities of India. During this period, India has succeeded in introducing its great glorious Sanatan culture, glorious heritage, spiritual sphere, economic development, etc. to the whole world.

The success that India has achieved in recent years in solving its economic and social problems and accelerating its economic growth rate has been achieved mainly by following India’s eternal culture and traditions. On the contrary, especially after the Corona epidemic, many developed countries of the world are still struggling with many types of economic and social problems. Due to following economic policies based on capitalism, the economic and social condition of western countries has not been very good. In developed countries today the primacy of the family has, in a way, ended. In this context, a special example of America’s situation can be given here. The social fabric in America today has disintegrated. The divorce rate among couples has become very high due to which children remain only with their mother and a large number of children do not have any information about their father.

In the US, 120 gun licenses are issued for every 100 citizens, meaning some citizens have more than one gun available. The rate of violence in America today has become very high due to the easy availability of guns. In America, there are 978 police personnel deployed per one lakh population. Despite this, there were 610 incidents of mass shooting (in which 4 or more civilians died) in the US in the year 2020. There have been 690 incidents of mass shooting in the year 2021, 647 in the year 2022 and this year till May 9, 2023, 203 mass shooting incidents have taken place. According to a report released in the year 2017, there were 17.2 murder incidents per 1 lakh population in America, while there were 13 murder incidents in Africa, 2.6 in Asia and an average of 6 murder incidents in the entire world.

Due to disintegration of family system in developed countries, the elderly have to depend on the help of the government. Therefore, the governments of these countries have to spend huge amounts of money on social facilities. In many developed countries, the number of elderly people is increasing rapidly, due to which these countries have to spend a large part of their budget on social facilities. France is spending 31 percent of its total budget on social facilities, similarly Italy is spending 28 percent, Germany 26 percent and America 19 percent on social facilities. Due to huge expenditure on social facilities, the economic condition of these countries has collapsed and the average debt per capita in these countries has become very high. In America, 136 percent of the total gross domestic product has been borrowed. Today, some countries have to take loans to pay interest on loans.

About 4 percent of the world’s population lives in America, but about 30 percent of the electricity being produced in the entire world is being used by American citizens. Similarly, 36 percent of the world’s petrol and diesel is used in America. Thus, developed countries are adversely affecting the environment of the entire world. Due to the reasons mentioned above, America’s budgetary deficit has also reached a very pathetic state. Also, imports have become much more than exports, due to which the total foreign trade has also become negative. Therefore, overall the Western economic philosophy based on capitalism has completely failed.

In sharp contrast to the ideology of Western philosophy, according to Indian culture, family, society, nation, creation and God are considered respectively above individualism. Due to the prevalence of joint family, the care of the elderly takes place within the family and there is not much burden on the government budget in this regard. Seeing the economic development of India by following the Indian Sanatan culture, now developed countries are also getting attracted towards the Indian culture considering it superior so that they can solve their economic and social problems. Overall, now only Indian economic philosophy can save the entire world, because it is based on karma and focuses on integral humanity.

-Prahlad Sabnani

Retired Deputy General Manager

state Bank of India