The story goes on saying that an anthropologist proposed a game to some children of an African tribe. He put a basket of fruits near a tree and told the kids that the first one to reach the fruit would win them all. When he told them to run, they all took each other’s hands and ran together. When asked, they said, “Ubuntu, how can one of us be happy if all the others are sad?” Ubuntu is a philosophy of African tribes; this should have been the philosophy of all primitive tribes. According to them, things are created to be shared and people are there to be loved. The texture of the present world but says that things are to be loved and people are to be used.
India always upheld the principles of Dharma. Dharma speaks of co-existence in every relationship. Dharma is about a specific cosmic law and order, though it is just a path towards righteousness for the Sikhs. Dharma is in the heart of Indian culture. It says, everything is to be loved. If wants and needs were once defined to essential and non essential, the Dharma of the day is on accumulating the maximum. Skill and efficiency have become the deciding factors; might have become right. The result is competition and conflict. It is said that the tragedy of life is not death but what we let die inside. Deep inside, we sacrifice values. Is there an appropriate technology that reverses the process? Yes, Ubuntu.
Joseph Mattappally
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