The UN is celebrating its Platinum Jubilee this year. As this organization which came into existence on October 24, 1945 celebrates its birthday, it has seen 75 years of togetherness among its member countries. The motto of this organization is clear from its second secretary general Dag Hammarskjöld's words: This organization was not created to take mankind to heaven, but to save humanity from hell.

The UNO took its birth crying for unity in the battlefields of Europe where seven and a half billion people died for no reasons of their own. The nations found battles pointless only when civilians and soldiers lost their lives. After 1945, the world took to a new way of thinking. Wars do not decide who is right, it only decides who is left. Following the publication of Man's Fate (French: La condition humaine, "The Human Condition") novel written by André Malrau, the then French Minister for cultural affairs, in 1933, the world was ready for new ideas for improving the lives of people. The war made this message loud and clear. The UNO was the answer to such a call. The then US President Roosevelt took the lead and thus the League of Nations which had become defunct for various reasons was substituted by a new organization with more clear cut goals and a definite modus operandi.

The UN plays a leading and exemplary role in mitigating the effects of such threats on our existence like climatic changes, global warming, natural calamities, epidemics, food shortage, refugee issues and the like as well as coordination of mutual help and harmony among nations. In recent times, the UN has taken up several missions to improve the quality of human life on this planet. Obviously, the UN interventions in the Palestine-Israel conflict, the Korean War, the Suez Canal issue, the Indo-Pak conflicts, the gulf war, the pestilence called terrorism and such man-made catastrophes have made our life safer more secure.

The UN which guards our environment also plays a socially conscious and vital role as it provides its service in the field of education, attempts to preserve historically important heritages, organized food supply for hundred million children in 85 countries, support during election process in administratively fragile nations, immunization using vaccines etc. In this light it is unfortunate that the US which had provided the infrastructure for several subsidiaries of the UN and contributed the 22% percent of the organizations expenses is turning its back on it now. The discussions in the 75th UN summit were also not in a desirable direction.

The organization was found fault with in failing to ensure a concerted effort of its member countries in containing COVID 19. The Brexit issues and the highhandedness of China are also loosened the binding among the member countries of the UN. COVID 19 is also seen as the beginning of a global disintegration. Verily, as Corona is enshrouding the earth, social distancing among people is snowballing into political distancing among nations. This too has weakened the UN. It was Benjamin Franklin who said ' either we hang together or we hang separately.

The discrimination and indifference which mark the granting of permanent membership in the UN security council to a country like India which has the second largest population (more than one seventh of the world population) bear ample proof of deliberate mismanagement of power at the top. Based on the ideals on which the UN was founded, political plurality is more important than institutional oligarchy. The whistle blower stature and the reformative role of the UN in world affairs are essential for the progress of humanity.