India, July 3 -- The world we live in today is caught up in a vicious circle, which none of us would deny, because most of the problems it faces are interlinked and each one of them feeds the fires of others. One of the reasons why we cannot solve or lessen the severity of these problems is that we do not apply or do not have a solution that attacks all the problems simultaneously.

In other words, our approach to our problems is not holistic: it is piecemeal. We try to make use of solutions for each problem separately, and the result is that, in the meantime, other problems increase and bring back the problem that we are already trying to tackle! Secondly, we have an infatuation with the old theories.

Little do we realise that our present...