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Our Future a Call for Wisdom J C Kapur OUR FUTURE A CALL FOR WISDOM This book is a posthumous selection of essays, articles and lectures by J C Kapur, written over his lifetime, on a wide range of topics such as science, technology, renewable energy generation, philosophy, culture, international relations and it includes the transcript of an international conference on the human condition he organized and moderated in 1986. This collection reflects his multifaceted concerns, ideas and activities. OUR FUTURE: A CALL FOR WISDOM is a joint publication of the World Public Forum “Dialogue of Civilizations” and the Kapur Surya Foundation. OUR FUTURE:OUR A CALL WISDOM FOR J C Kapur • ISBN 978-5-904605-08-7 Not for sale OUR FUTURE A CALL FOR WISDOM J C Kapur 2014 Arise, awake and stop not till the goal is reached — Swami Vivekananda from Katha Upanisad (1.3.14) © Kapur Surya Foundation, 2014 © World Public Forum “Dialogue of Civilizations”, 2014 Text and Photographs © 2014 Kapur Family ISBN 978-5-904605-08-7 4 Acknowledgments The Kapur Surya Foundation wishes to thank Founding President of the World Public Forum “Dialogue of Civilizations” Dr Vladimir I Yakunin and Executive Director of the WPF DoC Dr Vladimir I Kulikov for making the publication of this book possible. We also express our appreciation to Côme Carpentier, Aruna Ghose, Chandrika Vijayan and Krishan Pawar who assisted in the preparation and editing of the material included in this book. We thank Nikita Konopaltsev for the efficiency with which he put the manuscript together. Urmilla Kapur Chanda Singh Kapur Surya Foundation New Delhi, 2014 5 Contents Part – I A DIALOGUE ON THE HUMAN CONDITION Introduction . 12 8 December 1986: morning session . 14 8 December 1986: afternoon session . 40 9 December 1986: morning session . 47 9 December 1986: afternoon session . 85 10 December 1986: morning session . 107 10 December 1986: afternoon session . 121 Conclusion . 138 Main participants . 142 Part-time participants . 144 Part – II A QUEST FOR SYNERGY Introduction . 149 Foreign technology . .150 Future of man — the Eastern and the Western view . 156 Agenda for those who care . .170 Retreat to sanity . .180 Photovoltaics and the emerging human order . 186 Power shift or power obsession . 189 Evolution of democracy for a new human order . 195 st New human order — some images of the 21 century . 201 Culture and development: some basic issues . 211 Declining utopias — new visions . 218 Renewable energy for rural development . 224 From cultural conquests and confrontations to dialogue of civilisations . .240 Culture of intermediate technology . 247 6 Part – III SUGGESTIONS FOR A NEW WORLD Introduction . 258 Transcending the clash of civilisations . 262 Genesis of terror and destruction. 264 Available energy resources and environmental imperatives. 267 The call for Asian collective security . .280 Latin America . 282 South and Central Asia — a new awakening. 286 The way of all empires . 288 The spirit of India . .290 Is Asia resurgent? . 294 World health in the crisis of civilisation and lifestyles. 296 Colonialism by other means . 299 Asia: challenges, opportunities and threats . 301 Continuity of cultures or chaos of civilizations? . 304 Rejection of Cartesian separation and advancement of integral humanism. 312 The Iranian enigma . 315 Europe on new pathways — temporal or eternal . 317 Russia — an uncharted transition . .320 India in the Asian context: economic and cultural challenges . 323 India’s future — “disturbing images” . 326 Africa: from colonial separation to global partnership . 328 Road to recovery — our present is not the future . .330 Africa — agony and hope . 332 Our world: where is it headed? . 334 A new human civilisation: a rising or setting sun? . 336 Towards a humane civilisation . 339 Search for a new humanism for a human-centric future . 343 Appendix A. 348 Appendix B . 351 7 J C Kapur OUR FUTURE A CALL FOR WISDOM (1920 – 2010) 9 The Surya Kund at Kapur Solar Farms: meeting place for the Dialogue on the Human Condition. Participants compared it to Plato's garden A view of the dialogue in the Surya Kund PART – I A DIALOGUE ON THE HUMAN CONDITION Introduction his first part presents a vivid record of much of the dialogue that took place Ton the Human Condition in December 1986 between personalities as varied as the celebrated architect, Charles Correa, the civil servants, P N Haksar and T N Kaul, the well-known statesman, poet and scholar, Karan Singh, academicians such as Professor Yashpal and Professor GG Kotovskii and Dr. Pushpa Bhargava, the fable-teller and children’s illustrator, Leo Lionni, the Jungian philosopher, Ian Baker, the psychologist, Ethel Vogelsang, the theologian, Ursula King, and Ramakrishna Mission’s Swami Ranganathananda. They discussed the arms’ race, the role of science and technology, the need for spiritual re-awakening, the problems of women, youth and children, the breakdown of the family, the relevance of nationalism, and the dangers posed by poverty, narcotics and AIDS. Only such an international assortment of thinkers and professionals could have approached the subject in a holistic manner. Their ideas on the Human Condition will inspire confidence that the world is not yet irreparable beyond saturation. This meeting of minds was held in an open-air Surya Kund, or sun tank, specially built in the picturesque environment of Kapur Solar Farm on the outskirts of Delhi. The farm is largely powered by natural sources of energy such as the sun, and biomass. Inspired by Surya, the lord of intelligence, the ‘think tank’ was designed by Charles Correa and evokes the famous 11th century Sun Temple at Modhera in Gujarat. The participants at the meeting latter characterized the The Surya Kund as the 20st century version of Plato’s garden. Jagdish Chandra Kapur’s idea of bringing together the leaders in sciences, arts, aesthetics, theology, philosophy, psychology, education, economics, politics and administration, was to find a common meeting point from which to analyse the present critical state of the world, and to work towards fundamental solu- tions to mankind’s basic problems. This proved a remarkable success. 12 OUR FUTURE: A CALL FOR WISDOM No papers were presented or discussed at this meeting, which began on Monday 8 December 1986 and concluded on the afternoon of Wednesday 10 December 1986. In the opening session most of the participants and some observers made brief statements on what in their opinion constituted the ‘Hu- man Condition’. In the concluding session, a few of the participants presented their reactions to and understanding of this exchange of experiences. The views of the group and of its individual members are presented in this volume. PART – I • A DIALOGUE ON THE HUMAN CONDITION 13 8 December 1986: morning session JAGDISH CHANDRA KAPUR (JAGDISH) During recent years I have had the opportunity and privilege of discussing the larger human problems and the deteriorating worldwide environment with a number of friends. Hence, the title of this meeting ‘The Human Condition’. It gives me great pleasure that we have met to participate in such an exercise, that so many friends from different parts of the world, different professions and areas of concern have come together to exchange ideas and views on the Human Condition. Hundreds of conferences, seminars and discussions on a wide variety of subjects are being held around the world, generating masses of information and knowledge, which is left scattered around in confusion. There is no force left to integrate this data for purposeful action leading to the amelioration of the present human predicament. DR. YASHPAL (YASH) I think the quest of the Human Condition depends on who we are. Most of us probably do not have any pressing problem such as where the next meal is to come from, or that our children cannot be sick as the doctor’s fees are unaffordable. Many of the things that appear uppermost in our minds may not be up- permost in the minds of another section of society. I feel we are caught up in something not altogether new. The situation now is more critical than earlier in history. The problems were smaller then, and they did not threaten the whole of humanity at one time, but people in these localised situations were as threat- ened as they are now. What has happened, essentially, is that over the years, starting with a total world population of the order of 200 million, 2,000 years ago, and the world has come close to an explosion in terms of population. The 14 OUR FUTURE: A CALL FOR WISDOM rate of increase is reflected most accurately in increasing technology. We have been building on the past; starting a few centuries ago we began to acquire new capabilities, and to fashion new tools. We have just begun to understand Nature a bit better and the consequence of this has been in terms of acquiring new tools to handle problems. The rate at which these tools have been acquired has become alarming; it has not only changed our lives, but has also given us the capability to influence each other much more aggressively than we were able to earlier. The world has become a smaller place and all of us are tremendously exposed. As we have gone along increasing our powers of interfering, meddling and dominating in the course of solving our problems, we have more or less retained a social morality or social ethic of a type that is unsuitable to our increased capabilities. I do not believe in revealed ethics. I believe that the ethics of humanity essen- tially arose out of trying to maximise the human good as a social ethic. The rules of social behaviour, which are like traffic rules, indicating how we are to behave with each other have not changed, fast enough.
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