Date/Time
Date(s) - 04/07/2025
3:00 pm - 5:30 pm
Location
Seminar Hall
Categories
Abstract:
Comparative study between developed and developing countries in the context of sustainable development
“Development” is an essential part of one’s life that may be inner or outer. One could be the individual human being and could be a collective identity as a society, as a nation, as a state etc. When we agree that development is essential, we need to understand the difference between “essential development” and “planned development”. We have often heard the phrase “परिवर्तनसंसािकाननयमहै” which is true and certain. As a human, we have our limitations as a doer, but at the same time have limitless imagination and expectations from society.
One must understand the theory of “karma yogi” and then have to behave accordingly as a tiny tool of the cosmos. One has to understand we are part of a process we are not the process. As self claimed super creature “human” started living on this planet a million years ago. At that time, “humans lived as a part of nature”. They take life and refined life from the available natural resources. Gradually, they started developing collective consciousness and started community construction, primarily as a family rather than any other identity. The idea of “self” and “my” is the basic complication between the relationship of man and the cosmos [I’m deliberately using these terms where man is not about any gender and cosmos on the place of environment, because it is not just environment I’m going to talk about in sustainability] I tried to find out the complexity between those in my initial chapters.
From the ancient age till now, the story of humankind has been the story of evolution. Then from where does this “Development” word come out? It is the second question of my research that I addressed in my first chapter. The comparative study between the western idea of development and the eastern idea of development, and the gist of this modern buzzword “Sustainable”. The basic question that I addressed in my proposed chapters is when every civilization across the globe has the same initials, rooted in nature, then what happened so suddenly that the West became so utilitarian and the rest [East] is still focused on the ground. The second question is, is sustainability actually sustainable or just an old wine in a new packet. In my recent chapters I’ll focus more on indigenous models of social evolution and economic growth.
Proposed Chapterisation:
1] Concept of development: in which I referred to the established thought and thinkers of the west in developmental studies as well-tried to establish a new vision to look at development.
2] Developed areas of the world: a time-traveler chapter which shows the civilizational history as well as present-day policy making of those countries which claim to be developed.
3] Developing areas of the world: the chapter carries the same content as the chapter above carries for developed countries.
4] Concept of sustainable development: its philosophical and scientific basis and modern relevance.
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