Revitalise Civic Life For Common Good

The civic life of citizens presumes their concerns with the well-governed public affairs of the community and nation-state. It is a trustful life. Its revitalisation rests on promoting common good and their solidarity glued by the ideals of conversational life, reciprocity of give and take, altruism, willing to work together in times of weal and woe and find innovative solutions to profound problems on nearly every side. Classical Nepali treatises defined the purpose of education to produce awakened persons capable of undertaking personal responsibility and connecting self to collective civic life of society. The revitalisation of this latent virtue can find its resonance now in the democratic approach to collective emancipation of people from their cognitive dependence, social dislocation, cultural conceit, economic inequality and utilitarian bargaining politics.