Osian's Auction Catalogue India The Passionate Detachment | February 2001

10 Introduction At the heart of India’s unrealised potential, is the failure to transform her unique humanistic idealism into a credible institutional system. Certain institutional agents of change and progress now lack credibility. Most of them recognise their failure, and are open to change, but are still unable to engender the required progress in practice. This flux allows a new and deeper role for the individual and their idealism in the process of infrastructure-building, especially in the field of arts, culture and education. In this task the lone creative activist-visionary requires a new attitude and support system. The scope and reach of their duty needs to be rapidly redefined. This essay briefly touches upon some aspects of this redefinition. I have used my brief personal experience of infrastructure-building to clarify wider issues. One reason for taking such liberty is that today the unity between my philosophy and actions is well-entrenched, the idealism has basically awoken to its materiality, and seeks the method and attitude so as to sustain an institutionalising process with objectivity. ’To Revolutionise’, implies radical thought and its implementation. Given the task at hand, the issue is not just to criticise the existing infrastructure but to actually create a viable alternative, and to do so through a process which takes one closer to understanding the reality of the situation. In recognising the potential of relating artistic creativity, scholarship and risk-taking to the generation and redistribution of wealth so as to create an integrated infrastructure for the Indian arts and its education, there is the possibility to revolutionise… A Philosophy of Action: To Revolutionise an Infrastructure … Neville Tuli This essay has borrowed sections from my earlier essays printed in Intuitive-Logic: The Next Step. HEART 1999.