Anti-western approach damaging for India: Karan Singh

An anti-Western perspective was damaging for India and it should adopt a ‘binocular vision’ taking the best practices followed in the West, senior Congress leader Karan Singh has said.

‘Anti-Western approach is not extremely wrong but is definitely damaging for the country. We can take from the West what is useful, but opposing everything that is from the West is wrong,’ he said while delivering the sixth annual lecture at NIIT University here.

‘We need a binocular vision which with one eye keeps an Indian or Asian perspective, the other eye has a world perspective,’ he said.

‘Articulation of consciousness, what is mind body relationship what are the psycho-spiritual linkages, this whole area of consciousness research has become growingly important in America too and other parts of the world. Science and religion are finally going to come together and they can be studied as quantified,’ he asserted.