WinningCan You Win With A Flawed Worldview?“Do you ever wonder why it is that many of history’s titanic intellects managedto come to radically different conclusions? The answer is simple: If you beginyour system of thought by refusing to acknowledge what you know to be true - ifyou start with a lie - the more brilliant and consistent you are in following thatpremise, the further from truth you will go. ”- Tim Challies, Editor, ‘Discerning Reader’By: Frank RajIn developing my new Winning column mygoal is not to engage merely in successoriented punditry. There are plentyof gurus out there. I’d rather useWinning as a vehicle to look atvarious topics that we need to understandbetter and develop a robust worldview to“win” in a more meaningful sense. This ispossible only if we understand the worldfrom a better perspective - a total worldand-life-view.Our individual worldview is how wemake sense of the different spheres we interact in:Relationships, Culture, Institutions, Community,Government, Environment, Economics, Science,Technology, Spirituality, Education, andDevelopment.How we engage these spheres, each with theirdifferent rules and protocol, determines how wesee the world.Winning will present different issues from timeto time. In this column I’ve chosen to highlightauthor Mattias Larsen’s highly relevant thesis,Vulnerable Daughters In India. (Routledge 2010).In India, girls are aborted on a massive scalemerely because they are girls. Underlying thiswidespread problem is the puzzling fact thatdaughters have become vulnerable in a time ofgeneral improvement of welfare, female statusand deep economic and social changes. Larsen’sfindings centre on a contradiction of the culturalnorm in India that ‘a son is necessary,’ whensocio-economic changes are challenging suchfactors. Despite the uncertainty over sons fulfillingexpectations, they are still favoured and negativeconsequences for daughters have intensified.Based on original research, Vulnerable DaughtersIn India studies sex selective abortions of girls andtakes its starting point in the fact that decliningchild sex ratios are a result of an ongoingprocess of societal change in India. This isa nationwide social pattern, every thinking<strong>Indian</strong> should do something about.It was Ayn Rand author of Fountainheadwho pointed out, “A building has integrityjust like a man. And just as seldom.”There are so many small and large waysin life that people ignore what it means tolive with integrity. One of them is to haveno concern for the vulnerable in our society.The philosophy that supports suchindifference believes, ‘From the spiritual point ofview, there is no such thing as evil. What we callevil is actually error. We do not use the term evil: wecall it bondage or error.’ But ask yourself - is therereally no such thing as evil? Is human natureessentially good or intrinsically flawed? How doyou explain the presence of evil in our world?How do you respond to friends whose worldviewdiffers from yours?Raising such issues to make you think, Winningwill hopefully prompt life-changing discussion andchallenge you to develop a consistent worldviewundergirded with integrity.We can follow the herd and do things only outof self-interest or one day we can say along withRobert Frost:Two roads diverged in a wood, and II took the one less traveled byAnd that has made all the differenceFrank Raj is TII’s founder editor & publisher,a motivational speaker, and authorof ‘Desh Aur Diaspora.’98 The <strong>International</strong> <strong>Indian</strong>
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