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Wednesday, August 15, 2007

Freedom: A global perspective


15th August 1947, India got freedom from British Raj. I pondered upon the fact for a while and thought is freedom for a country only means freedom from some other country ruling over it for past many decades? or it has other perspectives.

How can you call a country free, if still that country has not got freedom from poverty, inequality, unemployment and corruption. If we see freedom from this perspective, it has nothing to do with physiological boundaries or what we call different "countries" today. Don't you think that if country is free from all these hassles country is free no matter who is ruling it?

With the world getting flatter, there is a need to see freedom from this perspective because in coming decades the world will be an highly cohesive and interdependent entity. At this time what will matter is a Win-Win situation for all where all have equal opportunities to prosper, wealth is more or less evenly distributed, people have freedom to dream, freedom to act, fairness is at its best and all are working hard to make this world a better place.

I know many economist will think that a how can whole world get prosper at the same time, as the total wealth in the world is more or less constant and gain of one will be loss of others. But I feel that is the challenge to face, that is how we make sure that wealth is uniformly distributed across the globe. I know it is difficult but surely not impossible as the opportunities lying ahead are infinite. sky is the limit.

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