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Individuals make the families; families constitute the societies; and societies together form the nations, an ensemble of which is seen as the world. This relationship is not hierarchical in nature, rather, it naturally persists and expands like the mutually supportive motion of the waves in an ocean. Disturbance in the natural order of any component, though implicitly, affects the others in corresponding proportions. Social anarchy accelerates the law and order problems at national level. Moral degradation and instability of the family institution is reflected in similar negative trends at the social levels too. Harmony of all musical nodes is necessary for the melody of a tune. Analogously, when we talk of all round peace, progress and prosperity of the nation, we will have to ensure harmonious endowment of these prospects in its constituent social, familial and personal domains too. The present scenario at global level depicts an arbitrary melange of bright and gorgeous as well as dark and dull colors of positive and negative progress. The national picture - especially in the Indian context, is equally blurred. After 50 years of political independence, it is not clear where the nation is really headed? There certainly has been significant progress in some fields of science and technology. Self-reliance in agriculture, decrease in mortality rate, increase in literacy, are also counted as positive signs of progress. But, the explosive growth of population, rapidly declining cultural values, unequal economic progress, social disparity, rising corruption in almost every walk of national life, decreasing morality and reduced sense of responsibility in the personal, familial and social spheres of common man’s life, etc, show the depressing sides. Excellent constitutional provisions have not been implemented to the extent as might have been planned by the architects of sovereign Indian democracy. Social status of women has not been ameliorated much as compared to that in the pre independence period. Similar is the case of the economic exploitation of the weaker and the poor ones. Wealth of the nation, its economic growth and industrialization, seem to have made the rich men richer; the poor ones continue to increase in number. The condition is more pathetic on other facets of social development. Castism, religious misconceptions, blind faith, superstitions, the curse of dowry and similar absurdities of the customs and convictions born out of the pernicious era of ignorance and slavery - continue to dominate the Indian mind. The political and economic systems too are infected by these social evils in one form or the other. The large number of literacy campaigns, healthcare projects, social welfare schemes, etc, appear to have little effect in diverting the wrong trends. The egotistic and selfish attitudes of the learned and elite ones - including many of the journalists, writers, artists, scientists, philosophers, bureaucrats, industrialists, planners, policy makers and managers, etc, and, the ambitions and aspirations of the majority for luxuries and aplomb, have added to the complications of the challenging problems associated with national development. It is surprising to note that even the awareness generated during the great movement of India’s independence could not be channelized for similar revolution on the social front. Despite significant progress in agriculture, economy, science and technology, the social and religious systems have remained the areas of lesser attention. It is indeed unfortunate that after over 2500 years of slavery, when we finally got the opportunity to breath in free India, we, rather than resurrecting our original glory, chose to remain culturally enslaved and confused. We became the followers of single tracked materialistic development without bothering about what could be essential for elevating the status of a diversified and illiterate society like ours. We hardly cared about the inherent nature, culture, convictions, and attitudes of our masses, without whose compatible response, efficient cooperation and justified sharing in the national progress, our dreams of prosperous development were bound to be shattered in the long run...

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