Mangalore:  A 2-Day seminar got going in St. Aloysius College this morning on “India today: Challenges for the future”. It was organised by department of MSW, and inaugurated by Dr. S. A Bari, Vice-Chancellor, Kuvempu University. Rev. Fr. Joseph I. Rodrigues, Rector, presided over the event. Keynote address was delivered by Dr. R. L.M. Patil, Former Chairman in political Science, Bangalore University. A poster presentation was held after the address.

Papers were read in 2 sessions by Dr. M. Upender of Dept. of Economics, Osmania University in Hyderabad, and by Dr. Sandeep Shastri, Pro Vice-Chacellor, Jain University in Bangalore.
The entire 2-Day national Seminar has been styled as “Samprithi”. In his keynote address in the morning to-day, Dr. R.L.M. Patil referred to Indian tradition of time being cyclical in concept and future lying in past, with present influencing it.

Some of India’s present-day ills were products of past collective mistakes which needed to be removed, he added. India cannot be happy without progress made by the whole world. The Western (European) decolonized countries and USA, where it has presently colonized (Japan, Iraq and Afghanistan or S. American nations), have taken a beating in economy. India as the sole surviving civilized nation can give a lead to all other ambitious / perverted countries in proper political link-ups. India need not take lessons from a broken Western economy. Indian future is dependent on its own will and resources, Dr. Patil stated.