Youth is the Future of India

Vivek Karwa

vivek@karwa.co.in

“Many partygoers were taken into custody in Mumbai in October’08 amidst lot of protest by them. Urine and Blood samples were collected from all and the report says 70% of them tested positive for drugs consumption.”

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Mumbai/Juhu_rave_party_109_test_positive_for_drug_consumption/articleshow/3732401.cms

+ Youth is the future of India! This is a phrase we hear quiet often and must have heard those words ourselves when we were in college. A Youth may be defined as a person who is in the age range of 25 – 35 years and hence I myself fall in this category. Our seniors expect us to lead the country march ahead. The country can leap ahead if today’s Indian Youth contributes to the nation by his deeds, which result in creation Economic Value. This is by way of Intellectual Knowledge, Social Activities (Not Partying), Sharing of Know How, Giving a Helping had to those requiring etc.

+ Not that our country would get into a deadlock if majority of the youth community does not contribute. We would still be left with some responsible people who will have to shoulder major part. The others would move with time and change accordingly with the situation but do not expect them to move ahead of time and think futuristic.

+ The above news clearly shows where is today’s youth headed. The people caught and tested positive for drug consumptions are particularly from Middle and Affluent class and not restricted to male population. This is an area where ladies have acquired equal rights to their male counterparts without lodging any agitation or demans.

+ Iam in a department connected to Police and help them nab people drinking and driving in the night particularly after 11 p.m. and the operation whenever launched goes till 2 a.m. When people drink and drive they risk their lives and Iam not bothered about their lives, why should I bother about them when they themselves don’t care about their lives? They not only risk their lives, they also risk lives of people who are innocent and are either returning home after late night work or on account of other genuine reasons. We have heard several hit and run cases and some of which are quite famous like the BMW case of Delhi, in which the car ran over six sleeping laborers killing them all!

+ Startling information for you is when we perform the above checks on the road, 80% of the people caught drunk while on the drivers seat are not more than 35 years of age and hence falling in the so called Future of India’s Youth Category. Not just drunk we nab them racing with friends and majority of them do not carry proper papers.

+ Many times television channels simply venture out and throws out unexpected questions to people moving on roads. One of the funny question I once saw was “Who’s the President of India” and trust me 50% were wondering what’s the answer! How could one know the answer when they do not have habit of reading newspapers or watching news channels? If at all today’s youth puts on the TV the majority would be busy with Cricket and nothing else, and again when these people open the paper they do it from the back, yes the sports column first and yet just one Gold in Olympics.

+ We saw what happened at the Govt. Law College in Chennai last week. These are the future lawyers of India caught on camera beating each other mercilessly in an inhumanly manner. Today’s youth tries to be successful in academics with an intention of finding a job outside India and settling permanently away from home. Ask them why and they would give an excuse that there are no opportunities in India, ask them the reasons and the blame game would continue and the blame would next directly go on to the politicians, further ask them why is that? They would say the public votes all frauds to power again ask them do you vote? The answer now would be a big NO!

+ I would like to stop here without concluding or announcing the verdict for or against anyone, so that you and me as a reader start thinking about the hard facts mentioned and if possible, first change ourselves and then discuss what could be done for the country.

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Bound by Culture and not by Boundaries

Vivek Karwa
vivek@karwa.co.in

A person does not leave behind his culture when he goes places or settles somewhere in the world. A Punjabi will never forget his Makki ki Roti or Sarson ka Saag, A Tamilian will always search for the Idlis and the Dosas and would always celebrate Pongal and a Keralite will always unite on Onam, Dandiya runs in the blood of a Gujarati and, so on for each and every person belonging to a state and the culture in which he was brought up.

India is land of multiple cultures and one is free to practise and follow it where ever he goes in India and may be whole world. India is called the largest democracy and largest secular country in the world since the people of India with innumerable differences in opinions, religions, states, castes, etc., remain united as a country.

There are many people who are in other states from birth since the ancestors had settled outside their natives for reasons like employment, business etc., but these people not only followed their cultures but also united with the localites and adopted many of the local systems thus integrating themselves with the society.

This is the foundation which has kept India strong and people like Raj Thackeray are trying to root out this core basis on which India stands tall. If one does good deeds he is likely to become popular after say few years but what if someone wants to be instantly on headlines? Raj is just doing that. After breaking away from Shiv Sena his popularity slipped and he had sensed that more nationalistic Shiv Sena was better placed than it, if the Congress+NCP Govt in Maharashtra was to be rooted out in next elections, hence emerging as the most talked about anti social element in the country today. There are reports that NRI’s in US are asking the administration to include MNS in the list of Terror Organisations.

This menace has to be stopped, if such thought spreads in other parts of the country India would be in trouble as each state may start behaving like independent country by itself. The Govt of MH has failed miserably in containing Raj which was evident when he was able to get released second time on bail. Is the state government fearing Marathi voters bash in elections is another thought and if it is then Raj’s plans are on track as he has poisoned the minds of local people.

The Central UPA led Govt is facing pressure from its allies as each one of them wants to prove themselves to the local region as the elections are approaching fast. There were advisories sent to Orrisa by UPA on account of attacks on Christians, there’s nothing this sort happening to Maharashtra Govt.

RJD has found a hero in itself out of the situation. Laloo Prasad Yadav is batting in Bihar and also keeping in the chair of Rail Ministry looting the passengers silently like a slow poison and yeah also taking away the credit of bringing railways into profit, at who’s cost? Definitely ours! Sitting on the Rail Ministers chair he has no moral ground to seek resignation from other ministers.

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