The Now and the Dream

With globalization wrapping around the entire planet, the world has become one big ‘global village.’ With this phenomenon, while there is a fair bit of standardization, and expectedly so, one also observes, and quite counter-intuitively, a growing sense of disparateness. With our more than a fair share of the haves and the have nots, the key to real social peace and development is literacy and education of the kind referred to earlier for anyone who wishes to obtain it, and at a reasonable cost.