Globalisation making people slaves of money: Scholar

PATNA: Even as the much talked about globalisation has steered the Indian economy out of a deepening fiscal crisis of the late eighties, it has created an adverse impact on the Indian culture and social life, said Kameshwar Singh Darbhanga Sanskrit University former vice-chancellor Brahmachari Surendra Kumar.
Delivering the first Sudha Rani memorial lecture on ‘Relevance of Sanskrit in the context of globalisation’ here on Friday evening, Kumar observed that globalization was encouraging the growth of a capitalistic society and that men are becoming slave of money.There is no place for common man in the modern system created after the advent of so-called globalisation. “The world has certainly turned into a global village but we have no longer our cherished families,” he said. Art and culture minister Sukhda Pandey was the chief guest on the occasion.
Detailing the negative effects of globalization, Kumar said that it is having an adverse impact on our family life, mainly through television and technology. Television lessens the amount of time that families spend together. It also exposes children to new value systems, makes them grow up faster and gives them a thirst for consumer goods. Its disturbing impact on family and the drastic erosion of traditional social life is a matter of concern for all of us, he said.
He further pointed out that family lifestyles had changed considerably in recent times. “Family ties are breaking down and the traditional extended family system is gradually being replaced by families consisting only of parents and children. There is pressure for more work and less time to see each other and be together as a family. We are placing our children into other people’s care because both parents have to work,” Kumar added.
Speaking as the chief guest on the occasion, art and culture minister Sukhda Pandey recalled the qualities of head and heart of former Patna University Sanskrit department head Sudha Rani, who died one year ago.
Others who paid glowing tributes to Sudha Rani included PU economics teacher N K Chaudhary, retired political science teachers Bachoo Sinha, L N Sharma and R K Lal, former PU Sanskrit department head Ram Bilas Chaudhary, former MP Girija Singh and retired chemistry professor Mahesh Chandra.