Planning Based on Remnant

PLANNING BASED ON REMNANT even after a struggle lasting a hundred years. The following Hindi maxim applies to their case: Aadhi chhod ke sajji dhaave Aadhi rahe na sajji paave (One who runs after the whole, leaving behind the part, loses both the part and the whole). This is why, although these nations launched their initiatives with great enthusiasm, they ended up as failed states. They could neither achieve what they had set out to do nor were they able to retain what they already possessed. A contrary example is the respective achievements of Japan and Germany. After the Second World War, both nations lost areas of land they had possessed before the onset of the war. Germany lost to the Soviet Union the eastern part of its country, the total area of which, including part of Berlin, was 108,333 km. A similar case is that of Japan, which surrendered the Okinawa Islands, with an area of 1,206 km, to the United States. However, both countries made plans for their future economic development by first setting aside what they had lost. The result was miraculous: Germany, led by its first post-war Chancellor, Konrad Adenauer, emerged as the industrial leader of Europe. Similarly, Japan, under the wise leadership of Emperor Hirohito, rose to be the economic superpower of Asia. This is the miracle of planning based on remnants or planning based on the remaining part of a whole, unlike planning, which entails the pursuit of an erstwhile whole.