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Swadeshi is a Mindset of Self-Confidence - KN Govindacharya

"Those who want to transform India cannot do so by learning
about it on the internet or through books, but only by learning
India in person,” said leading Swadeshi ideologue and thinker Shri
KN Govindacharya. He was speaking at a function organised to mark
the culmination of a padayatra from Coimbatore to Chennai on April
7.
The padayatra was conducted for over 32 days by members of Swadeshi
Jagran Manch. Five members including Nambi Narayanan, Illankumar
Sampath, Rajamani, Manoharan and Kalyanaraman —walked around 25 km
each day, and spoke to villagers and town people over the need to
adopt Swadeshi mindset.
Shri Govindacharya stressed that Swadeshi sentiment is not just to
do with materials, but is an outlook aimed at creating
self-confidence and self-realisation. “We are all affected by our
own environment and situations and often decide many things based
on pre-conceptions. We draw a lot of conclusions based on
superficial understanding. When you observe from a distance you
cannot come to the right conclusions,” he said.
These comments served to underline his main theme that India must
not copy the practices of the West, as they are unsuited to it.
“Bharat must find her own terms of reference. We must stop copying
others. For instance, in Europe there is barely any sunlight, so
they wear dark clothes and coats. In the blistering heat of May,
why do our lawyers have to walk around in coats,” he asked. It is
in answering questions such as these and settling on systems and
practices suitable to India that the core of the Swadeshi idea
lays, Shri Govindacharya insisted.
Noted columnist Shri S Gurumurthy stressed on the need for Indians
to retain their societal customs, practices and paradigms. He took
the example of the breakdown of family system in the West to make
his point. “Many of the familial duties and responsibilities have
been made the burden of government. It is not anymore the duty of
children to take care of their parents, or for family to take care
of their sick, or for parents to take care of their children after
a point,” he said. This has led to a situation where no one feels
the necessity to save money.
“You will save only when you have certain duties and
responsibilities. In their absence, you will only spend and spend
and spend. Rightly, Americans have borrowed so much, the country is
now reeling. India got through it because of our cultural
imperative to save. The year 2008 was an eye opener. We need to ask
ourselves, do we want to transform ourselves to become like these
countries that are overburdened with debt. And this thought process
is Swadeshi” he said.
- KN Govindacharya, Swadeshi ideologue and thinker
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