Perspective
Achievement of Liberation
by TA Ramesh
Dream of Liberation
Full
liberation is the dream of everyone in the world. To achieve liberation
in all respects man dreams, imagines, thinks, plans, works and dies in
the world. After the World War II many nations got liberation from
British Imperialism. Four decades after World War II also nations got
liberation from Imperialism, Nazism, communism and Socialism. Yet some
nations are still under the control of monarchical rules, dictatorship
regimes and military rules waiting for liberation under some kind of
support, which is gathering strength everywhere.
On the other hand, the process of democratization is going on in the
erstwhile States of Socialism. Even in democratic States people are
dominated and exploited by one-sided, selfish, self centered and
egoistic politicians and corrupt bureaucrats. In such nations of weak
democracy, people are struggling to get liberation from restrictions,
controls, licenses of the government, social conventions based on
religion and class, perpetrations of violence by antisocial elements and
the horrible tortures of terrorists, besides rampant corruption,
casteism and sexual harassments.
Of the pillars of democracy such as legislature, bureaucracy, media and
judiciary, the last two are trying to safeguard the little liberty
enjoyed by the common people. But even in the democratic States freedom
of the press and independence of judiciary are often attacked by biased
and fascist like politicians at the helm of government administration,
needing strong condemnation and opposition by the people who are the
custodians of democracy. Social equality and social justice are only in
the slogans of the politicians. Only when people are economically,
socially and culturally liberated besides political liberty, which is
alone not enough, they can really achieve social justice. In this regard
press has got heavy responsibility to educate the people with proper
solutions to social problems and guidance through their media.
Alertness Necessary for People
When the press and the judiciary themselves are attacked by the
political party in power, how can the people’s freedom and their
constitutional rights be protected? So, people believe that politicians
are most powerful and do anything for them so that their lives can be
protected and rehabilitated by them. Likewise people are kept as under
dogs and exploited by the politicians. Good respect towards honorable
persons, natural affection in families, friendships among worthy
persons, respect of subordinates to superiors are all considered nothing
before the loyalty of workers towards their political leaders. And
politics has permeated in all fields of human endeavor and everything is
spoiled by the politicization of everything due to the ignorance of the
mass. Hence people have to be alert and keep themselves abreast of all
the world information everyday, then only they can fight for their
rights and get justice in al matters concerning their welfare.
Not only this, newspapers and magazines also should provide all
information necessary for the development of the people. It is the duty
of the press to create social awareness among the people of the nation
by exposing the wrongs it comes across everywhere, expose the financial
status, educational qualifications and criminal backgrounds of
influential persons, politicians and wrong doers so that even though
reforms are made very slowly in education, election, legal and
administrative systems people won’t be exploited or deceived before
their own eyes. Then only if journalists work sincerely by providing
true and quality information to the people and people also cooperate for
such good causes, democracy can function effectively and be useful to
the nation. So, only when democracy is effective, efficient and
excellent, liberation in all respects can be achieved for the people.
Historical Liberation Movements
Due to
President Abraham Lincoln’s sense of justice and love equally
towards both white and black people and the efforts of Martin Luther
King, the black leader, American Negroes got liberation from slavery
and equality rights as a citizen of USA. But both the leaders were
killed by assassin’s bullets.
In South
Africa Gandhi first started the non-cooperation movement under the
principles of truth and non-violence to fight for the rights of the
people against the white government there. He felt it was most
necessary in India rather than anywhere else first. So, Gandhi
returned to India, used non-cooperation movement by means of
non-violence against the British government and got liberation for
India from them. He was also killed by assassin’s bullets.
Other
leaders of India at that time felt that to keep secure the
liberation of India, liberation for other nations should also be got
in the world next. So, the first Prime Minister of India, Jawaharlal
Nehru worked for international liberation by decolonization as the
main theme of his Foreign Policy of India based on the principles of
peace, friendship, nonaggression, non-interference, cooperation and
coexistence with other nations of the world.
The great
spiritual leader of Hindu religion, Swami Vivekananda at that time
worked for spiritual liberation of humanity, which could be
possible, as per his view, not only by political liberation alone
but also by economic, social and cultural liberations, provided
poverty of the mass was eliminated. Education to the mass was spread
everywhere and hard works were done on various fields to make the
nation strong first by the firm participation of all. To popularize
his spiritual ideas of Advaitic Vedanta philosophy he expressed the
view everywhere that all are interdependent in the world as all
matters are interrelated in the Universe that each man has the
potentialities of God as each atom has the potentiality of the whole
Universe and that God is the same for all but the path to Him varies
by different religions. That was how he tried to unite mankind by
spiritualism advocating the policy of unity in diversity and achieve
total liberation for the whole of mankind.
So, the process of liberation of humankind could be completed only by
the promotion of peace, unity and international brotherhood among the
world people leading towards the formation of One Human World Order, for
which the foundation has been laid by the creation of the United Nations
Organization after the World War II.
Exploration, Colonization and Emancipation
After the European trade route towards East was blocked by the invasion
of Ottoman Turk, Europeans from Italy, Portugal, France and Britain went
on the sea routes to explore other continents and nations for the
revival of their trades there. Before that Marco Polo, a Venetian went
to China on land and returned to Italy by sea and whose detailed
writings on Chinese developments increased the interest of Europeans
towards East. From China, they came to know about gun power, paper,
glass and compass.
Columbus crossed Atlantic Ocean and discovered America, where Europeans
colonized and settled themselves there; after the developments in
science and technology, agriculture and industries there, America
prospered and became a Super power. Vasco Da Gama, another European
going round Africa reached India by sea. Afterwards only Europe came to
know about spices, tea, coffee, medicine, mathematics and spiritualism.
Both the French and the British people colonized Africa and India, and
became the rulers of those nations for some centuries. They transported
to their homelands many valuable goods, men for labor and ideas for
developing their knowledge and life from the East and became prosperous.
Then revival of learning in Arts, Literature and other fields took place
there. Scientific inventions took place. Industrial revolution along
with Agricultural innovations took place.
Consequences of Liberation
Around 1950 they gave independence to Asian and African nations, which
are functioning as independent developing nations. Poverty, disease,
ignorance and unemployment problems are there in Africa and Asia. So,
after exploitations and dominations by Europeans, it has become their
debt and duty to help these nations. The political liberation, these
Asian nations obtained after a long-time of struggles, has become a
burden to bear; besides, the developments they have to make even after
decades of hardships have got a long way to go. The consequences of
liberation have a high price to be paid by them, from which there is no
escape or relief unless they are helped by the developed nations.
On the other hand, the people, who were taken to the other colonies by
the Europeans and responsible for the developments there, are stranded
in those countries with no identity of their own; and those people, who
have no permanent nation of their own in Sri Lanka, Fiji, South Africa,
etc. suffer different kind of humiliation, which cannot be imagined by
others. Yet another category of men who try for immigration in European
countries are denied visas and permanent citizenships because of tight
immigration laws there. This is the irony of liberation in the modern
world.
Globalization towards Liberation
Since 1990 onwards, globalization has the world door wide open for the
developing nations like India, China and others to transform past losses
into profits through new developments in the field of knowledge based
computer and information technologies as well as biotechnology.
Privatization, liberalization and globalization of economy of these
nations have created opportunities for the people to try their level
best through knowledge. Among these nations, India has got a wonderful
chance in biotechnology and information technology to come up top most
in the near future because of their English knowledge, sincerity and
hard work.
In the South Asian Association meetings of various nations revival of
the past cultural ties were being discussed and the possibility for the
promotion of free trade, tourism and communication, and information
technology among the nations was explored. There is a proposal being
arrived at for the laying of road links from Singapore to Istanbul via
Myanmar, India and Afghanistan. The impediments to the realization of
such goals in the process of globalization are international terrorism
and the unresolved dispute between India and Pakistan over Kashmir due
to cross border terrorism and infiltration of terrorists across the Line
of Control between them.
The immediate unilateral war on Iraq led by America with the support of
Britain, Spain, Hungary, Poland and others for the disarmament of
Weapons of Mass Destruction and ousting of Saddam Hussein, the President
of Iraq from power is questioning the credibility of UN Security Council
and the world unity at large in spite of the oppositions by the
countries like France, Germany, Russia, China and others. So, time only
has to decide for the normalization of the process of globalization of
economy, then the globalization of politics, society, culture and so on
towards the formation of One Human World Order in the future with the
cooperation and support of advanced nations. That is the only way by
which achievement of liberation in all respects for humankind in the
world could be possible as time goes on. Fortunately for good or bad the
trend towards this possibility has been started by the globalization of
economy, etc. among world nations.
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Full
liberation is the dream of everyone in the world. To achieve liberation
in all respects man dreams, imagines, thinks, plans, works and dies in
the world. After the World War II many nations got liberation from
British Imperialism. Four decades after World War II also nations got
liberation from Imperialism, Nazism, communism and Socialism. Yet some
nations are still under the control of monarchical rules, dictatorship
regimes and military rules waiting for liberation under some kind of
support, which is gathering strength everywhere. 
