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India's historical progress has been linked to an open-minded approach to the world, while narrow perspectives have led to setbacks. The nation possesses a rich inheritance that has fostered creative and constructive efforts, impacting Asia and beyond. The ongoing struggle between constructive forces and destructive tendencies poses a critical question for current and future leaders about the direction of the nation.

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2017 RC

India's historical progress has been linked to an open-minded approach to the world, while narrow perspectives have led to setbacks. The nation possesses a rich inheritance that has fostered creative and constructive efforts, impacting Asia and beyond. The ongoing struggle between constructive forces and destructive tendencies poses a critical question for current and future leaders about the direction of the nation.

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If we look back at India's long history, we find that our forefathers made wonderful progress whenever they

looked out on the world with clear and fearless eyes and kept the windows of their minds open to give and to
receive. And, in later periods, when they grew narrow in outlook and shrank from outside influences, India
suffered a set-back, politically and culturally. What a magnificent inheritance we have, though we have
abused it often enough. India has been and is a vital nation, in spite of all the misery and suffering that she
has experienced. That vitality in the realm of constructive and creative effort spread to many parts of the
Asian world and elsewhere and brought splendid conquests in its train. Those conquests were not so much of
the sword, but of the mind and heart which bring healing and which endure when the men of the sword and
their work are forgotten. But that very vitality, if not rightly and creatively directed, may turn inward and
destroy and degrade. Even during the brief span of our lives we have seen these two forces at play in India
and the world at large — the forces of constructive and creative effort and the forces of destruction.
Which will triumph in the end? And on which side do we stand? That is a vital question for each one of us
and, more especially, for those from whom the leaders of the nation will be drawn, and on whom the burden
of tomorrow will fall. We dare not sit on the fence and refuse to face the issue. We dare not allow our minds
to be befuddled by passion and hatred when clear thought and effective action are necessary.

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