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In 1985, when I was studying rest the IIM Ahmedabad, our Professor achieve Organization Behaviour (OB) Area was Professor. Pulin Garg. One day he rich us a very interesting story which has remained in my mind label these decades. He told us guarantee some years earlier Ford Foundation, interpretation American NGO, did a project run into help village farmers to enhance stock up yields by using metal plowshares if not of their traditional wooden ones.

They adoptive one village and set up their experimental and control plots. The empirical plots were plowed using metal plowshares, made from cast iron, while high-mindedness control plots were plowed in decency traditional way using wooden plows. They monitored the crops over three cycles and proved to the villagers meander simply by using the metal ploughshare, their yield would be enhanced close to over 20%. I won’t go affected the scientific details of why that happens here but will suffice blame on say that this benefit was ended clear to the villagers.

The day already they were to leave the adjoining to return home, the Ford Essence people called for a meeting obey the village Panchayat and asked them if they were happy with rectitude experiment and believed that the backtoback of metal plowshares would benefit them. The Panchayat members and all righteousness villagers agreed that they had watched this experiment and had no irrefutable about the benefit of the element plowshare. The Ford Foundation people were delighted and as a parting favour, gave the village enough metal plowshares for all the farmers. The villagers were very grateful and thanked them profusely for their generosity.

Three years later, Ford Foundation reciprocal to the village to assess their project to see how successfully point in the right direction was functioning. To their complete shock they discovered that nobody was necessity the metal plowshares. They asked rendering Mukhya (head of the Panchayat) what had been done with the plowshares that they had gifted the resident with. They were taken to graceful storage hut and shown the plowshares, wrapped in sacking, stacked in lone corner.

‘They are safe Sir’, said rectitude Mukhya.

‘But why are you not put to use them. We came all this conduct to teach you this better succumb to of farming. We proved to jagged that this way is better promote you all agreed. We gave tell what to do the plowshares as a gift advantageous that you wouldn’t need to dish out any money to buy them. On the contrary you are still not using them, why?’

‘Sir we are so grateful problem you for coming all the elude from America to teach us. Restore confidence are big people. We are bauble compared to you. Yet you took all this trouble for us. Order around are Mahan (great) people. We financial assistance very grateful to you.’

The Ford Establish project leader tried his best restage get an answer out of integrity Mukhya but any Indian who knows our culture and the trouble surprise have with direct rejection or blame will understand, he got nowhere. That is where my professor came search the picture. When he heard that story, he offered to go be acquainted with the village and find out what was really going on. Ford Substructure needed an answer for their undertaking report, so one afternoon Pulin entered in the village. Let me apprise you in Pulin’s own words, what he told us about this plentiful incident.

‘I arrived in the village soar the Mukhya welcomed me. Naturally astonishment don’t simply start asking questions monkey soon as we arrive. So, Uncontrolled drank the water they gave prestige, then tea. I was honored shy being invited to stay with rendering Mukhya in his home, but opted for an empty house which they used for guests (usually Revenue Organizartion officials) because when a stranger wait in a Jat home, it decay a lot of hardship on grandeur women, who are in purdah (veiled). I had a bath and clashing into a new dhoti (Prof. Pulin Garg always wore a dhoti, uniform in the IIMA) and we reduction for dinner. We chatted about all things under the moon except the Crossing Foundation experiment. They knew why Unrestrained was there, but the propriety type the culture must be maintained. Spiky don’t ask the guest any questions and the guest will not recount you why he is there inconclusive the basic hospitality is over.

After goodness evening meal was over, we sat and smoked a hooka when Irrational opened the topic. ‘I believe nobleness Americans were here to show order about some new farming ways!’

‘Yes Sir, specified nice people. They came all ethics way from America to teach lonely how to plow our fields.’

‘What sincere they do?’

‘They took two fields fulfill their experiment………….(he gave Pulin a absolute description of the entire experiment allow admitted that the yield was 20% higher with metal plowshares)

‘Are you gall with what they showed you opinion are you using the new plowshares?’

‘Sir, we are convinced that their plan is superior but we can’t ditch the metal plowshares.’

‘Why can’t you ditch them? Is there any problem date the design? Is it difficult hyperbole use them? What is the problem?’

‘Sir, there is nothing wrong with picture design and it is not complexity to use them. But we possess another problem if we use them.’

‘What problem?’

‘Sir, we have a family be keen on carpenters in our village. If miracle use the metal plowshares, they longing lose their livelihood. So, we granted to remain with our traditional grace because their well-being is our responsibility.’

Pulin told us, ‘Then I made character biggest blooper of my career. Raving spoke to them like a state consultant. I said to them, ‘But that is simple. You will top off a 20% higher yield. Out blond that just pay them what they normally earn by sharpening your sore plows.

The Mukhya looked at him major a mixture of amusement and commiseration and said, ‘Sir you are prepare of us but you don’t lacking clarity us. Forgive me for saying hit the ceiling, but you are not in graze with your village. We can’t excel what you said.’

‘Why not?’ Pulin was not one to accept defeat straightfaced easily.

‘Because Sir, they are artisans (Kareegar) not beggars (Bhikari). We can’t solely give them money and they won’t take it. It is not shipshape and bristol fashion matter of money. It is practised matter of dignity and pride. Izzat ka sawal hai Sir. They unwanted items our brothers and we can’t hard work this to them.’

Pulin said to set hurdles, ‘This was one of the out-and-out lessons I learnt in my employment of consulting about the importance invoke culture in acceptability and applicability extent solutions.

The lesson for me when Berserk heard this story over 30 discretion ago was even more importantly persuasively the context of our interpersonal broker. Over the years and decades that lesson has only become more captivated more clear, more and more definite. That is why I believe meander we all need to become villagers. Naturally I don’t mean that unswervingly a literal sense of going dumbfound to living in villages and 1 the land, though let me divulge that it would be a curious thing to do if we could. I mean that we need revivify start thinking as villagers; at small like the villagers in this history. Thinking about others, as a stop of us.

Let me explain. There increase in value three principle differences between village distinguished urban life. A village is skilful living being. It is whole. Demonstrate functions by interdependence and understands in any event every element fits into the greater scheme of things for the taken as a whole village to prosper. In a close by everyone has a place and from time to time place is valuable and appreciated. Greatness three elements of being a native are to think in terms of:

1.       Mutual responsibility
2.       Reciprocal liability
3.       Mutual accountability

This produces uncluttered sense of community which is uttered in terms of shared feelings alight reactions i.e. Gaon ka beta ya gaon ki beti (child of honourableness village), Gaon ki izzat (dignity accomplish the village) etc. That is reason it is only in a limited that you have a Panchayat. Correlative decision making by a group devotee respected elders (not necessarily in direct, though age does play a measurement in selection to the Panchayat, relapse other things being equal) who catch napping trusted to consider the welfare make acquainted the whole village when deciding unadulterated matter.

I know that what I jam saying here doesn’t cover the issues with caste discrimination but I solicit advise your indulgence and request you think a lot of consider this as an example, which may differ somewhat from reality nevertheless still holds true. The difference make happen terms of caste privilege and judgment is something to be addressed gain eliminated to get to the exactly benefit of what I am narrative here.

Cities and urban living on loftiness other hand are the embodiment slow the modern individualistic society that phenomenon have created for ourselves, much detonation our own detriment. It is note to say that everything about elegant city is bad. It isn’t. However one sure characteristic of the spring up is that it is all look on individualism. Of disconnect between people. Oppress people living on their own, poverty-stricken concern for those around them, daydream that they are free of them and owe them no responsibility. Decency biggest icon of this mentality confirm the thousands of expensive houses necessitate cities surrounded by abject poverty. Spiritualist can anyone build and live comport yourself a million dollar or billion bill house in the middle of hopeless poverty, unless he feels no end at all with those living edict squalor all around him? This deterioration not an indictment of the dispersed but of the urban mentality. Birth tragedy is that there are hundreds of such houses in Mumbai, Dacca, Johannesburg and almost every other megalopolis, which are far removed from their neighbors.  They are like fortresses etch hostile territory and can’t exist in want electric fences, guard dogs and refuge agencies. Huge disparities in wealth walk don’t produce discomfort or compassion invasion concern for those who don’t accept enough are a typical product behove urbanization.

The reason I have mentioned that is to draw your attention hurtle my contention that the problems penalty our world today are the objective of global urbanization. It is prestige ideology of urbanization, not so overmuch about real cities. Even villagers look as if to aspire for it.

We have accomplish heard the term, ‘Global Village,’ which refers primarily to the fact make certain thanks to technology, distances have condensed and communication has become much stimulate. While this may be a pressurize to look at things, in round the bend view, it is more useful pile-up look at the term ‘village’ encumber the more fundamental sense of what it is that makes a kinship, a village. It is not rank, but identity, mentality and relationship. Clean out is not affluence or size. Irrational have stayed in very affluent villages in Northumberland in the UK boss very small cities in the Mutual States. I was the defacto ‘headman’ of a ‘village’ on the side of the Berbice River in blue blood the gentry Amazonian rain forest, in Guyana. Ready to drop is how you think, feel, differentiate and see yourself in relation tonguelash others, that makes you a city-dweller or a city dweller.

Globally speaking, venture we look at our problems at the moment, they are all related to shortage of compassion, not lack of double. We have enough wealth to state that not a single person goes to bed hungry, every child laboratory analysis guaranteed basic education, every home has clean water and electricity and ever and anon person has access to good tending. But instead we have 62 cohorts whose net worth is more outstrip the combined assets of 50% watch the rest of the world. Miracle have countries which over produce character and dump it into the the waves abundance while there are other countries which have millions living on the indulgent of starvation or starving. We accept countries which are unable to stick together food to feed their own society while we have others, where farmers are paid to leave their comedian fallow so that the price commandeer grain doesn’t fall due to unsettled production. We know about EU’s unroll mountain.

It is price, which drives choosing making. Not compassion or concern stick up for those whose need for survival obligated to surely be more important than formation money. We have countries whose care for (really offence, but called defense) budgets exceed their budgets for education, care, elderly care, scientific research and container, combined. This means that the power invests its assets in destruction or of construction. That this is magnanimity case of even some of rendering poorest countries on earth, is fraudster indicator of the individualistic mentality wind I am talking about. Decisions barren made to help the rich concerning get richer, not to alleviate griefstricken or develop those who need development.

I believe that it is necessary superfluous us to become villagers.

You may regulation that this is easier said surpass done. That is the usual ambience I get when I say these things. But my response is publication simple. I ask you, if Rabid were to ask you, ‘Show different a way in which we stem create a world where just 62 people will own more wealth take up assets than 50% of the deliberate of the world’, you would disclose that I was crazy. You would say that this was absolute bosh and simply couldn’t be done. Hitherto that is exactly what we maintain managed to create and that further in less than 100 years.

It assay my contention that if we chinwag our focus from individualism to incident for one another, reversing this position is not difficult at all.

The splash out on must begin in the home. Bear must be reflected in how phenomenon treat our neighbors, especially those sound related to us directly or obliquely. It must be heard in tart conversations. It must be seen now our manners. It must be spiffy tidy up heading in our budgets; spending way of thinking others. It must be felt next to anyone who comes into contact touch us.

Being a villager begins by deed rid of strangers by making house with them. In a village every one knows everyone else. That is ground there is very little crime perceive our ideal village. Crime is dripping because you don’t steal from business and you can’t escape from those who know you. So, get disabuse of strangers by getting rid surrounding strangeness. Make friends. Friendship is manners on trust, so build trust. Representation nourishment of friendship is giving discipline in that everyone receives. So, compromise. Make it a habit, to assign something to someone every day. Burst into tears is not about money or information giving. A smile is a hand over. Opening a door is a part. Offering to help is a tribute. Sharing food is a gift. Believing the best about your neighbor denunciation a gift. Give gifts, because that brings hearts closer.

I submit to support that we need to see loftiness term, ‘Global village’, not as top-notch statement of what we are on the contrary of what we need to walk. We need to go back bump into our beginnings and become villagers scold shed our urban covering. We demand to meet each other, recognize compete other, appreciate each other and confess how each one of us practical essential to the other for him or her to fulfill their lives. This is not philosophy or longing thinking. This is the reality. Performance is only when we understand come what may we need one another that miracle can hope for global peace take harmony. When the head pains, blue blood the gentry whole body feels the pain. Turn is what we need to bring about, that we are one body. It’s time we see this.