(iv) Inquisitive and Open Mind and Knowledge-based Enterprise
The inquisitive and open mind is ready to receiving new and foreign ideas. It wants to know the physical, biological, sociological and artistic, and entrepreneurial world around it. An explorer wants to know everything about the outside world to expand its reach and its benefits. Societies that gave rise to the inquisitive and questioning scientific mind have gained more economically than societies with contended and orthodox world around them.
The Hindu value system and culture have taken a long view of things in philosophy, mathematics and in reality of time and place. India has benefited through millenniums from in-migration of ideas, people, capital and technology and much less from outward migrations in terms of aggression, conquering and running other countries, etc.
People have migrated from Africa to India to Europe but not in the same way as numerous cultures and empires coming to India. Outsiders have explored India more than Indians have explored outside. The characteristic of an open mind has allowed India to be a huge beneficiary of knowledge created and used outside India to make its own life better.
Cultural, administrative and management knowledge that came into India has enriched and sustained India's ancient culture as a continuum perhaps longer than any other society. India has never been a closed society and that is the key to its cultural diversity and variety.
Of course there are some 30 million people of Indian ancestry outside India in 2013 which is only 2.3 percent of India’s population of about 1,300 million.Non-Resident Indians (NRIs) and Persons of Indian Origin (PIO) are making significant contributions every where in every field- arts, information, enterprise, technology, business, finance, education, science, medicine, politics and government,
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