Srinagar, Nov. 22 -- Humanity today stands at a delicate crossroads. As our society moves rapidly toward material and technological advancement, we seem to be drifting away from the very values that make us human. Great thinkers of the past-Socrates, Plato, Kant, Chekhov, Iqbal, Wittgenstein, and many others-offered humanity a sacred wealth of wisdom. Though they no longer walk among us, their voices still echo through their texts, urging us to reclaim compassion, empathy, and moral courage. To restore mankind, we must return to these philosophical foundations and allow them to illuminate our path forward.

Socrates famously said, "The unexamined life is not worth living." His call was not merely intellectual-it was profoundly ethical. He...