Yes. You are correct. We must talk about how to correct this situation. What comes to my mind, is the Swadeshi movement. We can start by changing our own life-style. We stop craving for needless imported goods as far as practically possible. Wherever we are forced to make use of these, we optimise their usage and minimise wastage, (eg. Using the same computer many more years beyond its stated obsolesence lifetime, turning it off to save electricity etc.) We must refrain from buying needless luxury goods, we must find low cost indegenous alternatives to wasteful modern utilities like say water-coolers instead of air-conditioners, etc. Though these examples may seem trivial in dealing with a problem so huge, I think that making an attempt in this direction at the individual level will ultimately snoball into a collective attitude and consciousness. What is important is that we, as educated english-speaking elite, declare our allegiance and commitment to our own native culture and solidarity with our own impoverished masses.
As Gandhi said, what we need is not mass production but "production by the masses". This can be possible only if we as consumers with the purchasing power, exercise it in a way where the demand for goods and services where "production of real value is possible by the masses and not only by the huge factory owners.
Dear Mr. balasubramnian, I will take the liberty to humbly suggest that for starters you may advise your close friends to give up th
