There is an Indian way of doing things and India should struggle to maintain it, said Mark Tully, author and former BBC correspondent, here on Friday.
The Indian way of doing things was rooted deep in its culture and traditions and the nation had to realise this, he said at the 14th KIT Thomas Memorial Oration on ‘India and The World,' at Sishya here.
Commenting on the media scene in this context, he said that it was “extremely regrettable that the media was falling into the same trap that the West had fallen into.”
He described the trap as “deafness of dialogue,” where two persons completely opposed to each other fought it out on live television. This was “unproductive; no one learnt anything from this.” And it was completely “unIndian.”
The other problem was with economics.
“The narrow worship of growth and GDP” did not reveal “who is growing,” he said, adding that despite newspapers talking about high growth rates, the Father of the Green Revolution, M.S. Swaminathan, had pointed out that 40 per cent of India went to bed hungry. “Why are economists not answering this?”
