Giri at 1725 hrs on 01st May 2011
Hello and welcome to yet another post on Sujavna.
It is very tempting for me to write about the most-commented event of the week that went by – the wedding of 2 Britons, who, in terms of their achievements are not singularly exceptional, yet were subjected to worldwide adulation and gossip because of an innate trait amongst most of humankind to fantasise and live a vicarious royal lifestyle. An entire industry spanning the media, public relations, fashion, government departments, religion, charities, history and tourism seems to have assiduously built a multi-million dollar business out of showcasing the private, personal and public lives of British royalty.
So is there a case for some light bulbs to switch on, from these columns of Sujavna, as Kate and William begin their new innings as husband and wife? You bet my answer is a certain Yes!
For starters, it would have been great to see some real British innovations at work as the world watched the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge go through the notions of saying “I do”. Britain is hard pressed to encourage big-ticket overseas investment into the country and has been touting itself as an Innovation Economy and a Creative Economy. Could the royal wedding have been used as a platform to drive home the message with visible demonstrations of how Innovation and Creativity has been helping a commoner as much as they have helped the Royals?
Or perhaps, Kate and William could have been persuaded by the UK government to constitute (in their newly-appointed roles as the Duke and Duchesss of Cambridge) a Royal Chair of Healthcare Innovation in Cambridge University (which is already acknowledged as a leading Centre of Innovation Excellence) that will focus on investing in collaborative applied research into innovative healthcare management with overseas healthcare investors from Asian and African countries (perhaps from the Commonwealth group).
It must be an heady feeling when you are in your twenties to be the darling of the masses, but I am sure it would be an even greater exuberance that Kate and William would feel ten years down their lives to know that a few initiatives that they masterminded around the time of their wedding (it’s okay if these are done even immediately after their wedding!!!) drove wealth-generation for Britain and prosperity through innovation and creativity across the world.
Signing off now, as I go forward to live life as it will turn out the next week. So until next Sunday....
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