PM'S 5-IS
| Date :30-Jun-2019 |
EVEN though the world threatens to get fragmented due to tensions on account of territory, trade, tradition and even triumphalism, Prime Minister Mr. Narendra Modi has come out with a creative contribution to global thought of building a harmonious international community. At the G-20 Summit, sharing his vision of 5-Is -- Inclusiveness, Indigenisation, Innovation, Investment in infrastructure, and International cooperation -- Mr. Modi has shown how all the tensions can be overcome to enhance general prosperity and overall well being. In an atmosphere fraught with anxieties when every nation is engaged in self-centrism and possessiveness, such an approach based on creative ideas and constructive values has all the power to mend the fractious international community’s fault-lines and offer them a collective action-plan that is both, spiritually-oriented and propelled by urge to build a great future for all.
Even as world leaders are meeting with one another on the sidelines of G-20 Summit individually and also on platforms like BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa) to sort out issues and arrive at consensus or least-resistance as principles of international togetherness, Mr. Modi came out with a practicable philosophy that would engage the world in non-partisan creativity and wall-less cooperation. When the nations of the world get engaged in 5-Is, they will certainly come closer to one another as areas of possible conflict of politics or of ideas would get reduced.
The 5-Is concept has a great potential to bind the world in common-interest projects in which there would be no clash of civilisations or economies or cultures or historical cleavages that have kept harmony out of human collectivism. For, the 5-Is suggested by Mr. Modi do not allow any fractious ideation to keep the future human efforts divided in camps. Let us make no mistake in thinking that Mr. Modi has talked of only poetry and philosophy.
All the Is are related closely with action to make possible higher levels of Inclusiveness, Indigenisation, Innovation, Investment in infrastructure, and International cooperation for collective betterment. In other words, he has verbalised in modern terms the ancient Indian thought from Rig Ved: Sangachhadhvam samvadadhvam sam vo manaasi jaanataam/ Deva bhagam yatha purve sanjanana upasate (Let us talk together, let us walk together, let us think together, let us live together ...). This is true internationalism which ancient India promoted as a practicable philosophy and now Mr. Modi is using to push true globalisation without political constraints. The current global tensions are centered around trade and security, involving just a few nations and their strangely ambitious leaders whose world views are terrible mismatches with those of others. Many of their actions, too, are beyond simple explanations, as if aimed at senseless feuds, as if they are products of deliberate effort to create divisions. In such an atmosphere, Mr. Modi’s initiative with 5-Is has its special significance and appeal globally. Let alone a few countries, most countries will find the vision good enough and attractive enough for practical implementation.