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" Gradually, a change came. We became afraid of others and shrank into ourselves. We did not want either to go out ourselves or to let others come in. We developed narrow grooves of thought and narrow divisions among ourselves, each division keeping apart

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divided into various castes and groups. We practically imposed a ban on our people to go outside India. People were afraid that they would lose their caste or religion if they went out of India .

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We came to attach more importance to what we ate, drank or touched than to other, far more important, aspects of life. The transformation that you see now was gradual __ this shrinking into ourselves, this closing of our eyes to all that and that there was going on

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around us, and thinking that what we possessed was everything and that there was nothing more to learn. When an individual or a community starts to think like that, that individual or community is doomed, because life is a growing dynamic process.

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Every kind of vitality that characterizes life grows. The moment that growth stops life begins to decay. The ultimate result is death. We became static in our life and culture. "___ Jawaharlal Nehru.

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Taken from an address at a special convocation at the Saugar University, Madhya Pradesh, 30 October, 1952. PIB.

Reference __ Selected Works of Jawaharlal Nehru, Second Series Volume 20, page number 12.

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