What’s the next big thing then? The last century witnessed two
world wars and the massive change from nation-states to the utopian dream
of Vasudhave
kutmbkam being almost realized through the pervasive
presence of the internet which helped to break all the mental geographical
barriers. World a global village riding on the wave of globalization faces a
confused world order with the collapse of Super Powers where the supremacy of
the erstwhile all-mighty United States of America and USSR only remains a
shadow of the past and the rising Chinese dragon threatens to upset the
equilibrium of the world, with no challenger in sight and little Ukraine crying
out for help to the world leaders only to face its music by itself.
Globalization, which had been hailed as a panacea by the world
leaders and the multinationals, for all the ills facing the world: from
poverty; to hunger; to inequities; to climate imbalance has lost its sheen, the
same way as the last great ideology ie socialism & Marxism had lost its
momentum as the answer to world’s problems. Post-COVID world order appears to
be a dystopian reality straight out of some surreal novel, with the breakdown
of political, economic, and social world orders as we had hitherto understood
them, creating blurred and hazy lines between private and public sector
education or the lack of it, fluidity of genders or the search for money or
satisfaction, leaves the mankind with the confusion between right and wrong or
morals and absence of the same
