Govt must clarify just how Swadeshi should Indians be?

The country needs clarity on Swadeshi, as we had a rich tradition of the creative Swadeshi movement in India which got us independence

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The country needs clarity on this because we had a rich tradition of the creative Swadeshi movement in India, which became instrumental in India getting its independence.

Bal Gangadhar Tilak was the first to moot the idea of Swadeshi as an instrument to revive patriotism among Indians after the division of Bengal. Inspired by Tilak, VD Savarkar bonfired foreign cloths in Poona on October 8, 1905. Later, Mahatma Gandhi turned this concept into a mass movement. Gandhi's charkha is an iconic emblem of a creative energy which taught Indians to feel proud of what is Indian and break the shackles of the foreign rule.

But those were different times. Economies were not so badly entangled with each other. The world today is like a global village, so intricately interconnected that it’s impossible for an individual or a nation to live in isolation. The Prime Minister has to spell out what he means by ‘Swadeshi’. Otherwise, it will create more confusion, and that will lead to chaos, and the economy will suffer more.