Yeah it's unnerving because there are many great, real accomplishments from people in India, and no doubt many more to be found in the future. But dreaming about a special destiny inherited from the past doesn't necessarily require the dreamer to think about the here and now and what responsibility they may have to bring about the future we all desire.
It's dangerous because it simultaneously pacifies people towards the active role they should take in creating the world they will live in but also promises them they are the would-be inheritors of some mythical past, and that others are unlike them in that way.
As always we gotta work together and look towards the future, not the past. Basically, if you want to live in Star Trek, at least.
At the same time, one must remember these stories form a significant party of Indian culture.
The telling of hari katha in order to inculcate good values, the recital of the Vedas, the teaching of the Upanishads, the chanting of the various stotrams all have great benefit. I make that statement from personal experience.
Many habits that have been passed down the generations have helped make us the society we are today.
As the next generation, it is our duty as a whole to preserve this for our descendants. For history one forgotten is tough to be retrieved.
It would be a shame for one of the oldest cultures in the world to die out.
It's dangerous because it simultaneously pacifies people towards the active role they should take in creating the world they will live in but also promises them they are the would-be inheritors of some mythical past, and that others are unlike them in that way.
As always we gotta work together and look towards the future, not the past. Basically, if you want to live in Star Trek, at least.