{"id":304,"date":"2012-09-20T00:11:57","date_gmt":"2012-09-19T22:11:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tor.dk\/?p=304"},"modified":"2012-12-03T01:07:49","modified_gmt":"2012-12-03T00:07:49","slug":"superpower-of-compassion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tor.dk\/en\/2012\/09\/20\/superpower-of-compassion\/","title":{"rendered":"Superpower of compassion"},"content":{"rendered":"

Keynote on India, on the windmills of Sams\u00f8, on the new lamp the Little Sun, on restaurant noma and the global food revolution \u2013 but most of all about the coming era of compassion and the superpower to come: India.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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India is to become the superpower of compassion in the future. That was the forecast I gave in a keynote speech at a conference on\u00a0 India and its future,\u00a0 \u201cSustainability and Peace \u2013 Dialogue between Cultures<\/a>\u201d\u00a0 held at Arken Museum of Modern Art, Copenhagen, on September 13th 2012. The conference is part of a massive cultural exchange project, “India Today – Copenhagen Tomorrow<\/a>“.<\/p>\n

The forecast\u00a0 takes a little explanation.<\/p>\n

India is on the rise as an economy. In a few decades India expects to be the dominant economy on the planet, bigger than China, Indonesia, Brazil, Russia and the old ones, US and the EU. regardless of whether India will become nr. 1, 2 or 7 of he economies, the country has a particular cultural strength in its rich history. Therefore it is likely that India could well become another kind of superpower than the superpowers of the mechanical age or the nuclear age. India has the potential to become the superpower in the coming age of compassion.<\/p>\n

Cooperation, compassion, empathy and caring for other human beings and the environment are on their way to the top of the agenda for science and for\u00a0 general society. It is in this context that India has the opportunity to play an outstanding role. But, of course, only if the Indian economy does not try to copy the mindless and soulless tradition from the west.<\/p>\n

The point is further explored in this interview, conducted by the Danish Cultural Institute<\/a> and published at Cocreate Now<\/a>\u00a0with a little clip from the actual keynote included :<\/p>\n