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Full Video: Are you smart, or just shallow, young man? || Acharya Prashant, with IIM Calcutta (2022)

Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JlE2Fkb8ypw&t=0s

Video Information: 20.08.2022

Context:
How to get power?
How to become a leader?
How to face challenges in life?

Music Credits: Milind Date
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Transcript
00:00 Filth has accumulated over a large period of time.
00:08 Cleaning up won't happen in an instant.
00:13 That too is going to be a long process.
00:18 It was not in 1757 or 1857 that India lost her independence.
00:33 It was due to a long period of neglect of basics that we got colonized.
00:43 That period extended for several centuries.
00:48 A lot of things were happening in the religious domain, cultural domain, scientific domain,
00:55 educational domain that ultimately led to the fall of this huge subcontinent to much
01:02 smaller nations from Europe.
01:09 But once the fall happened, it was unrealistic to expect that now freedom can dawn in the
01:17 blink of an eye.
01:20 So then you required something like 200 years of incessant political and revolutionary activity
01:30 to bring just political freedom to India and other kinds of freedoms have still not come
01:38 to us in the way they must.
01:42 Why?
01:43 Because the process of slavery itself extended over several centuries.
01:51 So freedom too will take time.
01:52 We are right now in the middle of the process of freedom and in this process the political
01:59 freedom has come to us and other freedoms are still pending.
02:05 Similarly the corruption thing that you are talking of, when you are talking of cleaning
02:10 up, you have to ask yourself how exactly do you find yourself drenched in so much of filth
02:22 and think of the centuries that have brought us to this kind of weary state.
02:35 So if one political party fails in transforming the political landscape, then another one
02:42 must come up and you have to look at the whole thing in perspective.
02:48 It's not a matter of months or two years, four years.
02:52 It will take time and if you are hungry for change, as you must be, if you want to reduce
02:59 the time that the process will take, then you must with all zeal and energy put in your
03:07 own bit.
03:09 [Music]
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