Recently, on October 24 to be precise, was celebrated the United Nations day. A truly decisive body in the post World War II period of the suspicions filled Cold War era, it started losing its valency and value in the post perestroika period which preceded the full scale LPG blast. Till the seventies, so powerful it was that there was a fiat to the effect that all the allied nation states must declare It a public holiday.
With the LPG, it was the IMF and WB that gained currency, and literally! With the consumerist mentality ruling the roost, any ism that mattered was capitalism. The fall-out of all these ideological upheaval is the multi-focal world today.
The American bossing, rooted in the dollar power, is unmistakably being questioned. The binaries such as South/North, colonising/colonised, developed/developing, rich/poor no longer matter much in the post Covid era. Covid indeed was a leveller.
It raised questions about China being the only production hub of the world. In this questioning lie the possibilities of India emerging as the world's economical, vibrant production center.
In other words, such is the soft-ly backed hard power of India that India can begin a parallel U.N. with the help of the countries it helped during the Covid.
To remain relevant, the U.N. must understand this subtle but sure shift of power patterns, and the U.N. should follow the inevitable process of democratic decentralisation. Long live the U.N.
Often it is said now that in the multi-polar world, if the U.N. does not fall in line, India can create a parallel U.N. with the help of the countries it helped during the Covid.
Well, such democratic opening and decentralisation of the American-European power bodes well, as all would indeed be well in such a world. For the Indian youth, it is necessary to constantly upskill themselves so that in the AI era, they can thus develop a safe country, a h(e)aven for all.
Pratima@ The brave new world demands brave new policies, too!
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