Villages of India, with their inhabitents and their culture, are the only prominent bulwark now left on earth against maddening rush of humanity in the name of development. There are here and there in other countries also such villages still preserving their ancient spiritual culture but they are not so strong as they are in India.
If you see these villages from the Marxian lense, they are nothing but the still surviving vestiges of feudalism of the byegone era. But if you see them from the lense of evolutionary history of consciousness – and its human form on earth – they are vaults preserving the seed of what is good in humans: compassion, pity, benevolence, love and mercy.
These villages with their culture must be protected against the predatory march of development – even if a little sacrifice of development is to be made by India. It is a contest between happiness and wealth.
The only question left for debate is: How can India become developed enough to defend herself and survive in this hostile world?
This little sacrifice at the cost of the development of villages, can be well compensated by industrial and service sectors – nobody is opposing the development of those sectors. India can and should invite or invest in technology and build planes, roads, tanks, missiles, bridges and every conceival thing – but spare villages or their agriculture from the greedy hands of profiteers on the road of this insane rush of development.
In fact, this insane race for development is the need for survival against evil-minded competitors only around us and beyond but it is now no more the need of humans and their happiness; humans no more need this development to survive against the odds of hostile Nature!
With this development humans now are assaulting Nature, which they should not. For the happiness of humanity, enough should be enough.