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GOLDEN SYNTHESIS FOR A NEW FUTURE

THE WEEK India

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December 28, 2025

What India uniquely offers is conscious leadership: progress anchored in values, prosperity without arrogance, power without aggression and scientific advancement aligned with ethical clarity

- JAYANTI RAVI

GOLDEN SYNTHESIS FOR A NEW FUTURE

Across the vast sweep of the Indian subcontinent—its forests and rivers, deserts and coasts, bustling cities and remote hamlets—there lies an invisible but unmistakable wireframe.

It is a substratum of consciousness, a civilisational field that has cohered, expanded, evolved and renewed itself continuously over millennia. Few cultures in the world have sustained such an unbroken civilisational journey across 5,000 years of recorded history, and even further back into the enigmatic era of the Indus-Saraswati civilisation.

Yet India has not merely survived; it has constantly reshaped itself, remaining internally diverse but spiritually continuous. by ignoring the outward joys and sorrows the inner freedom is possible only for the Indian, the Indian alone is capable of un- dertaking activity in a spirit of non-attachment, while the sacrifice of ego and indifference in action are acknowledged as the highest aim of her education and culture and are the seed of her national character," says Sri Aurobindo.

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