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| Abdul Kalam - Former President of India |
The Knowledge Society
A Brief Summary
Bharat Ratna, Dr A.P.J.Abdul Kalam is the former president of India.”The Knowledge Society” is taken from his book “Ignited Minds”. Kalam says that poverty can be wiped out only by mixing our past heritage and present-day knowledge.
According to Kalam, India is a land of knowledge and it must rediscover itself its past legacy. The foreign invasions and the colonial rule weakened India considerably. Knowledge has many forms and it is available at several places. It is in academic institutions, at workplaces, in learning skills from people such as artists, craftsmen, hakims, philosophers and saints. It is available from our heritage, history and epics.
Kalam says that Knowledge is important for prosperity and power. In India, we had the tradition of passing knowledge from guru to shishya. Foreign travelers wrote about our Ancient Indian Universities like Nalanda. Agriculture society changed as an Industrial society during the last century. Technology played a key role in the development of the society. In the 21st century, knowledge has become the primary production resource instead of capital and labour. Education, health-care and agriculture are taken ahead in the knowledge society. It promotes high productivity and prosperity creating new sources of employment.
Multiple technologies and suitable management methods must work together to create a knowledge society. India has left its impression in Information Technology and it will be much more developed in future. As a second component, young and dynamic leaders are required for establishing knowledge society. The most important mission for the knowledge society is India should become a superpower by 2010.
If societal transformation and wealth generation are the two important factors to make India as a knowledge society, a third dimension is to transform India into a superpower. Our communication network and information centers must be protected from electronic attacks. It is a great responsibility. Our cultural heritage should also help us in making India a superpower. (315 Words)
