It is not the border but a border-less world that is gaining prominence today

Lt Gen. Dr D B Shekatkar, 
PVSM, AVSM, VSM (Retd.), Chairman –CKS

“It is a common perception that soldiers are not supposed to be knowledgeable. India is the vishwa guru because the amount of data available in India is enough to sustain the whole world. Why is it so? Because on this planet every 6th human being is an Indian. That is our reach, we are not generating the data only within our country but we are doing it across the globe and the whole world is looking at us. 

The Border is losing significance day by day; the topic which we are discussing today is the borderless world. Knowledge has no border, data has no border. This takes us to new point- connectivity of the people, where geographical distances have lost their relevance today. This is the power of connectivity and this depends on who is asking what and who is providing what. We should however be careful on the usefulness and uselessness of this Data. 

The 19th century was the century of muscle power, where everyone who had the muscle could rule the world, while the 20th century was the century of money power; based on the power of money you can buy anything that you name it. The 21st century is the century of knowledge power, the more knowledgeable you are the more powerful you will be and you become knowledgeable because the data available to you or because of the information available to you.In 1992 or 1993, a document was produced titled ‘What will China do to the world by 2035?’ Now nobody knows where it has gone, but every word written in the report is coming true. China is spending 90 billion dollars every year across the world to mould the minds of people in favour of China and to make them think that what China is doing is correct and is for the good of the world. And therefore, the war we are going to fight in this century will be bloodless and contactless, where you are not in contact with your enemy, your adversary, your competitor.”