What we praise as creativity in people or societies are riddled with biases. Over the centuries, no one society or people set out to be creative deliberately. Mostly, they were being deliberate about one or two things such as religion and social status. Shifting fortunes, accidental but happy coincidences; in other words perfectly random happenings can sometimes combine to create wealth, educational vibrancy, etc. We, the later generations attribute it to an inherent merit, which it is not.

In other words, there are few general rules such as hard work, honest work, curiousity, etc., that promote creativity. However, success is mainly due to random social happenings that combine with basic rules.

Can one plan to be creative? I think not. We can only be truthful in our approach to general inquiry in our lives. Leave it to others to attach labels calling it creative or dull.

So, continue in your musings. Just make sure you are truthful to yourself. You will find the true answer.

Ps: do you have fan club??? can I have the link to it?

anway Like i said.. I rest my case…
it is a great to see that you want to challenge yourself and the others to open their eyes and can I also add mind to think, create, contribute to our development…. I thank you again for creating this platform for discussion. Looking forward to reading more such thought provking posts!

And if you think Germany/Japan and other such countries “were” much ahead of us, I would say we better have a more closer look. They still are much much ahead. And a big NO for our economy and development. If you think economy is Sr. Ambani brother becomes richer, then you are wrong. We still have the World’s highest number of people which are still below poverty line. We are still in a age where the meaning of being literate is to be able to write your name. Contrary to our popular misconception, we are still very much couples with rest of the world and more importantly the US. Most of the so called economic boom you are saying was from FII investing in our country. IT industry, which itself accounts for a huge chunk of our GDP, is totally dependent on outside the country.

What is development where by we are mired by corruption?? How come when TATA Telecom launches Blackberry it brings out security issues, yet Airtel and Hutch/Vodaphone had been giving Blackberry services for over an year. How come our politicians still get votes by promising free TVs sets, electricity and rice?? But I guess I am moving to a different topic of debate.

But if you are saying we are developing by a very rapid pace, I would ask you to classify in which category does countries like South Korea, Malayasia come??

We are so happy about the Rs 5 rupee insurance which will cater for basic of medication. I wonder, what you comment on other countries which have free medical health cover for the basic things??

BTW, did you know, an Indian is the most taxed person in the world. Where by we are taxed at every stage of the production/purchase cycle?? Where does this all go when I still face 10 hrs a day power cut, 2 hours for 2 days a week water supply and pot-holed ridden roads??

I think it is about time we started to open our eyes and face the reality instead of just sitting and watching the Rosy picture which the machine of government propaganda has been showing us for years.

I appreciate the points listed by you. Thanks for creating a platform where we all can exchange our views. (and yes, for me spaces like these are also examples of creativity)

Metro is not an example of creativity. No, it is something that already available world over, we simply have used it to solve our mess. We did not improve on anything in using Metro. Infact, I believe we have made strategical blunders in drafting plans for Metro.

I have no problems in NRIs being called Indians, but I have problem with people who residing in India think that people like Sabeer Bhatia are people among us working for us. No, they are working for the US.

BTW, Kalpana Chawla did not create anything, she was just an astronaut. Neither did Rakesh Sharma, for that matter.

The object of the post is not self-sufficient country (and we are NOT self-sufficient). The object of the post is for people to looking within ourselves and understand even though we are capable, why is we are not doing anything worthwhile. We are only living in the shadows of the Bigs like US and EU.

Statement, that we were colonised and are poor is just a lame excuse. Both Japan and Germany were destroyed after WWII (almost same time we got our Independence) and I believe there is have huge difference in the development that is in Japan/Germany and India.

Again, I would emphasize, Creativity is much more different than mass-producing things at a cheaper, using somebody else pre-defined methods.

Is green revolution, white revolution, sliver revolution and many more such revolutions, not worth being examples of our becoming self sufficient country in terms of produces?

Is Jaipur foot, nano, rock garden not worthy to be mentioned as examples of creativity or you think there is someone else behind the success of these inventions as well?

Development of our Metro system which utilizes labour in abundance and gives an opportunity to thousands and more to earn their daily living not good enough example of creativity plus utility…

If kalpana Sharma, Sabeer Bhatia like to be known as Indians- is their an issue on that? We too have gone to space and come back… you remember Rakesh Sharma’s speech from the space- when he was asked bharat wahan sey kaisa dihkta hai- he replied Sare Jahan Sey achha; isn’t that creativity?

Please don’t forget the fact other countries are much advanced than we are because either they got their Independence much before us ( US) or ruled us ( England)

And yes, if you go and shop in the US and other countries- you will get stuff and clothes on which labels read ‘Made in India’ isn’t that Creativity??? Then I think I don’t know the definition of creativity and I rest my case.