Excerpt
2025, Paper: "“Nil desperandum”– “never despair”– said Horace more than two thousand years ago. This energizing admonition, along with the recognition of the urgent need to fight misery and injustice, is as relevant today as it was in the past. The world may be immensely richer in terms of aggregate income and total wealth, but the deprivations and insecurities of large sections of the world population have continued. The adversities will not go away on their own. We require a firm determination to remedy them. Ravages of economic, political and social deprivation can be seen across the world. And there are wars and brutal hostilities, right now, spread over the continents of Europe, Asia, America and Africa– killing people continuously and ruining human lives."