Foreign powers always tried to suppress our knowledge tradition. Efforts were made to demean our science and feeling for services and because of this we lost, at some extend, our rich knowledge tradition. Now there is need to understand our knowledge tradition and social system and redefine it.
Former union minister Sanjay Paswan expressed the views in two day national conference on 'Knowledge Tradition of India'. The programme was organised by Makhanlal Chaturvedi National University of Journalism and Communication, Bhopal in Patna. The university is organising seminars and conference at different states and in cities on the occasion of its silver jubilee year. Paswan said now what is needed is that we should save our knowledge tradition, social system and lifestyle from market forces. We should keep aside western civilisation and foreign knowledge and science and will have to be involved with our traditions and beliefs with resurgence. He underlined a need for dialogue with people of all ideologies and move forward with them. Expressing views on casticism, he said, there is no need to abolish castes but integrate them. Our tradition is to honour diversity and put unity in them and that has to be practised well in behaviour so that India can emerge as the power in the world.
Chairing the programme, university vice-chancellor Prof Brij Kishore Kuthiala said there is no need to establish Indian knowledge the need is to explore the wide knowledge. Emphasizing on exploration of knowledge covered up in ancient texts, its use for welfare of human, he said our educational institutes will have to come ahead and work in the projects with devotion so that institutes and human of outside could not present in deformed shape.
He said, science and knowledge has been remained in accordance with the nature and because of this, lifestyle in India has been different from others. Prof Kuthiala said we are now competent to carry out the work. What is needed is resolution. He called upon people researching in ancient Indian knowledge, that they should not limit their findings with seminars and conferences. Rather entire humanity and society should be shared with it for attaining ultimate glory. He said the journalism university is making efforts to bring it to students.