Innovation - India Adopting the Best of the West | Francois Gautier | TEDxSIUKirkee

Speaker is of the view that true innovation can only happen if India takes the best of the West, that is the aspiration for material perfection while retaining the best of its ancient history & wisdom. Education thus needs to go along these lines: western academic excellence and more of emphasis on Indian history, its poets, writers, warriors (such as Shivaji Maharaj) etc. Also there are some tools of ancient Indian spirituality that should be used that are secular in nature, such as Pranayama (the air we breathe is the same for anybody whatever his or her religion & ethnic origin) or meditation (such as the Buddhist technique of Vipassana, observing the sensations on the body) etc. Thus you would produce Indians, on par with the best in the world but with a difference. India could then INNOVATE and not copy as it is the case now in many areas.
A famous writer, blogger and journalist, François Gautier was born in Paris in 1959. In the early eighties, he began freelancing in India for different publications and finally ended-up being the correspondent in South Asia, for the Geneva-based “Journal de Geneve”, then one of the best international newspapers in Europe. In 1993, he switched to Figaro, one of France’s leading newspapers for which he worked exclusively for eight years. He also started writing regular columns for Indian newspapers, first in Blitz Bombay, then in the Hindustan Times, later came the ‘Ferengi’s column” in the Indian Express, then the “French Connection” column in the Pioneer, as well as regular contributions for Outlook, Rediff, New Indian Express, DainikJagran, etc.
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[@pawanhegde5976]

Every Indian must watch this...

[@nrusimha11]

"You need to be a little positive about your own country". Words for the ages.

[@RohitKumar-mx9cl]

True sir there is no Indianess in our education system

[@girirajgupta6305]

Every young Indian should listen to it. Thank you for the article.

[@nishantkarwa2611]

This man has nailed it perfectly. Very well explained. We Indians need to understand the vested interest of western media and stop looking at India from their eyes. We should be proud of our own culture and history. If we ourselves talk negatively about our country no one else is going to talk positively about it.

[@dasiprema4053]

Nishant very true.if i tell our god is in india.but a white tell you these you will accept from the white . You will not take from me a bharatji

[@surendrababuyadavsy]

Francois Sir, you are one of the nicest creations of god.

[@ashishdhabale9502]

Eye opening lecture by an open hearted man.

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[@jyotipanickar3831]

More power and wisdom to you sir.

[@vijiravin]

So proud of the speaker who is so proud of India. True son of Mother India. Family bliss and peace we can find only in India. Very wrong to use material welfare as yardstick to measure poverty or standard/quality of living.

[@debs7739]

Wow brilliant study. No intellectual ever difine like this.

[@vikasmishra7790]

in depth undersranding and analysis...

[@pavithranparamel4387]

you know about India better than us..c'est excellent,monsieur Gautier

[@pavanjoshi9054]

Wonderful, well understood and delivered🙏

[@apoorvtrivedi685]

very nice man

[@foundationbiologyclasses959]

Great speech

[@nareshkumarthalal4492]

Thanks sir

[@ganeshmore8463]

We Indian are great. But congress and britisher told Indiana are chuts. Shivaji maharaj is god for us. We need Bjp govt to save indianess.

[@france_tamilponnu]

Thanks for this video

[@sgovindachari2]

Thank you

[@thomasbiers5673]

Nice man

[@vivekbhatia4784]

We all need to unite and vote out Congress in 2019

[@karurbadrinarayanan9530]

Hello Mr. Siukirkee, I liked your speech on India and Indians and their innovation. Why Indians are far behind in this field though most of the knowledge came from India to the west, which includes Pythagoras theorem, decimal arithmetics and many. Hindu never took credit for any of their knowledge before. They were ego less, Pius and timid due to their upbringing(not any more). They never thought of any innovation and if at all there was some new ideas, their gurus used to stop them doing any such thing. They will immediately prompt "don't do any thing, drop every thing, god will protect you". May be because of the guru's awareness on environment or idea of total surrender to god.i However, India did progress in literature, science, ayurveda (herbal medicine), building constructions like dams and temples with their limited tools. In modern days, there are lots of US and European companies in India, where all the development and new ideas have to come through parent companies located in their countries. The credit will go to the parent company and any employee with a new idea will get proper renumeration and some promotions. Poverty is another problem. The problem is not only for Indians, but also many other similar countries like Pakistan and many. Correct me if I am wrong. Thanks. KB.

[@creatorlaksh]

Reason is India is diverse country..not United..

[@hemantsingh1887]

Great innovators various Medicine - plastic surgery , natural medicine what we are doing today, greatest philosphers - great philosophy Greek philosophy was inspired by in Astronomy - French philosphers used to quote Indian astronomers from 18 centùary Metallurgy - Iron pillar never rusted Economy - great barter system British broke the backbone of India Need special crops, 1820 - 1920, 20 million (8% population ) Whose mind we cannot conquer Macaulay , a class of Indian who thought like britishers NEHRU adopted whatever was left by britishers Today also great students - bee spelling competition, learn a lot by heart Industry - manufacturing (ambassador british + French ) sold for 40 years never thought of innovation Hero cycle No computer and hardware is created in India (China Lenovo leading computer in world, market ) Tejas - 30 years in making 40 times its initial budget Biggest brain drain india - 60% Indian engineer in silicon Valley, 60% doctors in british, because no indianness in education Brazil - best plane

[@pranavrawat6120]

yay 1st view

[@nareshkumarthalal4492]

Cruel British

[@AS-ty4gz]

Shame on us! I believe 21st century bring change

[@Ranjith_747]

Looks like he recently attended one of the yoga classes of sri sri sri sri sri Ravi Shankar.

[@santoshbhosale4596]

No he is a claimed teacher of Art of living.

[@shinuvarghese1178]

François stop commenting about our country.. we all are living in peace.. you are not even faithful to your religion. And flirt with hindu,muslim and christian girls.. pls stop thinking about our country. Your hate tweets in tweeter are spreading hate to each other..

[@nopenope8688]

What a moronic statement