Sustainability - Matching Aptitude with the pace of Science and Technology

Within the framework of modern thoughts, the concept of sustainability is quite recent. Introduced around mid twentieth century[1]; emerging out of the fashionable environmental cause that “hippies” took up from the fall-out of laws addressing industrial pollution. Even without the ‘word’ sustainable used by major world rural population, they practiced a living in the most ‘so called’ sustainable way. That sustainable life style still prevails in many parts of the world that is not yet touched by the industrialization wave. It encompassed individual, family and community lifestyles to maintain a natural balance with their immediate surrounding.

Religion, Today's Terrorism and Tomorrow's Leaders

Now a days, it is so hard to read and understand certain things. With the global events unfolding and the way they do – people belonging to some region, caste, community or religion start feeling - somewhat targeted, self-decimating; critical, submissive, violent, so on and so forth.

Different emotions surface in people’s minds - depending on the type of upbringing, contact, circles, education and opportunity within which this people get to express their views. This makes things so complex for the truth to come out.

Let us take the recent case of terrorism, Islam and Muslims in the context of early 21st century.

It is like an eternal truth with which certain religious and political commentators proclaim: “We Muslims are as responsible as Islam’s enemies…”

Now study this statement in context of the beliefs the person who says this carries. First, s/he strongly thinks and believes that – they are Muslims. The subtle truth is just taken for granted – that we are humans first before we are Muslims. If we are humans and we trace logic on the previous statement, it might read: “We humans are as responsible as Islam’s enemies….”