00:00My question, like being a nationalist, how can I contribute to my nation either by coming back
00:05to India or being settled there myself? What should be my motivation to come back to my mother country
00:11after completing my studies? What is nationalism? What is this love for mother country you are
00:18talking of? By being born somewhere in India, you do not become an Indian. My motivation for now is
00:25to come back to India after completing my studies. However, when I tell to my teachers, my parents
00:30and my relatives about it, so they usually tell me that you will definitely stay there.
00:35People don't return because they never belonged in the first place. Just being coincidentally
00:42born at a certain place does not make you a native. If you just want to return to the place
00:51where you were born, there is nothing great or sublime in this desire, this intention.
00:59If India is just the birthplace of your body to you, then there is nothing special in India.
01:08What is India really? Figure that out and then you will know whether it is of importance to
01:14serve India.
01:19Namaste Acharya Ji. Myself, Anish Kumar Singh. I am right now pursuing my master's final year
01:24from National Institute of Technology, Varangal. Sir, actually, I will be studying for a PhD in
01:30the United States of America at the University of Minnesota. Just after four months, I will be
01:35starting my PhD. So first thing first, it's a long program. And I think it could have a social
01:42culture impact on my understanding. So coming to the question like it is actual for settling abroad.
01:49Obviously, I'm going for study, but I'm talking about actually the settling abroad by like
01:55my motivation for now is to come back to India after completing my studies for now. It's my motivation.
02:01However, when I tell to my teachers, my parents and my relatives about it, so they usually tell
02:06me that you will definitely stay there because I spoke with one of my teachers the day before
02:11yesterday. I spoke with him and he had returned from a postdoctoral fellowship from Israel. He's a
02:16very experienced guy. So he said that it is extremely rare for people to return to the country and
02:22most will stay there. So if I conclude my question, like being a nationalist, how can I contribute to
02:28my nation either by coming back to India or being settled there myself? Like if you see Mahatma Gandhi
02:34studying abroad, coming back to India and helping the nation, then what should be my motivation to
02:40come back to my mother country after completing my studies?
02:43Yes, too many assumptions, too many definitions in the question. I cannot
02:59just admit those assumptions and definitions and base my answer on that.
03:07What is nationalism? What is this love for mother country you are talking of?
03:16So in my respect, like I am a research aspirant and I have to do something on anti-cancer drug and
03:21something. So for me, it's like kind of a designing something, a product, maybe a pharmaceutical,
03:27something which can be cheaply available and that can afford all the sets of people and can cure any
03:35short of diseases. So you want to bring those useful technologies to the people of India?
03:44Definitely, sir. If I could learn something from them, definitely I would.
03:47All right. What stops you then?
03:51Sir, I think the financial aspects and they even give some all sorts of facilities, especially the research
03:59things and economical, mental, peace and all those things, work ethics, the culture, work culture I
04:07heard of in the US. And even when I used to discuss with my relatives and the people who are already
04:12experienced and went for the studies, they usually tell that your mentality will be impacted in the long
04:19course of five years.
04:20I'm not getting it. You want to bring those technologies to the people of India? Wonderful.
04:27What stops you? So you go there, you complete the program, right? And that empowers you.
04:34And using your knowledge and your resources and your network, you then bring those benefits to the
04:42Indian people. What stops you?
04:46Sir, I think like they say usually in the discussion sort of people, they say that.
04:51I do not know what they say. Thousand people say a thousand things. You tell me what stops you.
04:58Sir, I think their financial aspect and the respect to the research and culture and both.
05:02What do you mean by financial aspect? What do you mean by financial aspect?
05:06You have knowledge, you have a postgraduate degree, rather what, a doctorate?
05:13Yes, sir.
05:14Yes. And India is no more a starving nation. There is enough money here as well.
05:23So what do you mean by the financial aspect exactly?
05:28Sir, like if you say about the earning things, I mean,
05:33respect of the work culture they provide.
05:36No, no, no. Work culture, work culture will come to, first of all, the financial thing.
05:41What do you mean by the financial aspect? Is that what stops you? How?
05:47I think that might stop me. I am not sure about that.
05:52How can we just speculate about something without knowing it?
05:56What do you mean by a financial aspect to the blockage? How much money do you need? And will that
06:07money not be available in India? Available, sir.
06:11So there can presumably be no financial aspect. Why is this still a concern with you?
06:20If you want to come here, money is hardly a problem. Greed can be a problem. Money is not a problem.
06:30Money and greed are not the same thing, right?
06:36The money that you need is definite. Greed is obviously indefinite.
06:42So money is taken care of. What next?
06:50I think the research facilities, the facilities they do provide, like the instrumentation facilities
06:56and the research arena, the work culture they do provide for the respect for
07:03resource things and the funding they do provide on the project. We work on that.
07:08I am not sure about that. See, I do not know your field. So I do not exactly know the kind of disparity
07:19in research avenues in your field between the US and India. So I cannot really comment on that. But
07:30what I know is that India is fast catching up. Right? Every five years, things are changing.
07:42Today, things are not what they were like in 2015 or 17. So the gap is narrowing.
07:52Another five years, the gap would be still narrower. And not only does the gap narrow down on its own,
08:05we do require able people to consciously narrow down the gap.
08:09First of all, there are the market forces. Right? That bridge the gap. And then there are people.
08:22Think of, let's say, somebody like Homi Jahangir Bhabha.
08:27Think of all the architects of the Indian technological renaissance, post-independence.
08:41India hardly had any facilities, any institutions.
08:44They helped build it up. They didn't find facilities. They created facilities.
08:57So I obviously do not want to put the onerous task of developing an institution on you.
09:06I am just saying that India is in a position where institutions are being created, institutions are being empowered.
09:20Indians want to be among the best, especially when it comes to science and technology and research.
09:27Why not contribute to the Indian quest? So, but that's, you see, an individual decision.
09:40You can choose between the comfort and the ready-made facilities that the US offers.
09:49Or you could choose between the chaos and the conflict. Go for that.
09:59As you go for that, be a part of building a process.
10:10It depends on your love. That's why that was the first question I asked you.
10:16What do you mean by love for the mother country, in your own words, and nationalism?
10:26You must be clear about that.
10:30What is a nation? Is the nation really a valuable entity?
10:34And if you know about nationalism, if you understand India, you also know whether India deserves to be served.
10:56And then the decision would be easier.
10:57People don't return because they never belonged in the first place.
11:10It's not as if they went away.
11:13They were actually never here.
11:14Just being coincidentally born at a certain place does not make you a native.
11:28To be an Indian is a tough ask.
11:30I do not think of India as having 140 crore Indians.
11:44That's the population of the state.
11:49That's not the number of Indians.
11:57You want to have an official stat.
12:00You could say, well, demographics 140 crore.
12:04That's all right.
12:07Indians really, however, are probably no more than a few hundred alive,
12:16maybe a few thousand and an equal number dead.
12:23And these Indians are scattered all over the world.
12:29Many of them have never even once come to the geographical position called India.
12:40They are still Indians.
12:41So, you have to know India.
12:54You have to know India.
13:02Just by being born here, you won't develop love.
13:09You can develop some kind of an attachment to your territory.
13:14But that is not love.
13:18An attachment does not have great power.
13:21So, when America lures,
13:26attachment is overpowered.
13:30And people fly away and settle in the US.
13:32I repeat, just by being born somewhere in India, you do not become an Indian.
13:42You do not really grow love for India because love requires understanding.
13:52To us, India is mostly about cheering the Indian cricket team
13:56or sloganeering against rival countries.
14:10That's not what nationalism is.
14:13If you just want to return to the place where you were born,
14:31there is nothing great or sublime in this desire, this intention.
14:43Being territorial is something all animals have.
14:47All animals in existence have a certain feeling for their own territory.
15:03So, there is nothing great about the desire to return to your birthplace.
15:08If India is just the birthplace of your body to you, then there is nothing special in India.
15:21What is India really?
15:23Figure that out and then you will know whether it is of importance to serve India.
15:28And when you know something is important, the new device means.
15:46Then you need not necessarily be present within the geographical limits of India.
15:53You probably could be anywhere.
15:55Equally, you need not be at other places for reasons of greed.
16:07A missionary travels across the world.
16:12That's very different from somebody migrating to another place
16:19in search of better financial opportunities.
16:25You understand the difference between a missionary and a migrant?
16:31Missionaries too are globetrotters.
16:34They leave their birthplace.
16:37Is it all too abstract?
16:58I am not even attempting to solve it in these 5-10 minutes.
17:01I just want to begin a process for you.
17:10Think on these things.
17:20More information
17:24Just come ahead.
17:28For more information-inspired people who are blind.
17:31If you like that, your life is easily cattle.
17:32You see.
17:33...
17:34A man when you are blind, in change you believe.
17:35About a casual space.
17:36Mayor Alina is a great Joe to speak.
17:38Amen.
17:40gimbal.
17:40It is not that.
17:41Maybe afterwards
17:42×–×”.
17:43Can you?
17:44Depois
17:44A man when you feel he Issue.
17:46I, baby.
17:46Father Ash,
17:48It is sugar.
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