The recent attack on Yogendra Yadav, may have attracted the public discern considerably but the real question is still eluding the fora of public discussion. It is impertinent that was smearing justified or not? Neither it is important to know whether that person has some penitent/contrite or attrite after the incident. But the real questions are something else.
The big question is what are the basic causes behind such unscrupulous behavior? Where this will lead to us? Are not our moral values deteriorating steadily? and Who is responsible for it? How can we coerce it, in short run and plans for long runs? Who is going to take the initiative? What will be its impacts on present the India and the future yet to come? After all there is a trend noticed in it.
It’s not the first time happening in the recent annals of India, but it is quite often these days. And the incidents of fragile egos in politics are increasing steadily. Some people say, “after all we are an angry young nation”. But such euphemistic replies to hostile behaviors should not deter us from reckoning the more gloomy future aspects of such intolerant dispositions. Anger(youths are habitual of) does not yield anything in long run, patience (characteristic of experience and age) does.
India is the country with maximum number of demographic dividends. It’s a pool of human resource, with cheap labor, fantastic working spirits and an exemplary of competition. This is the reason behind the mass inflow of FDI, galloping of Indian GDP in the race of modernization, unprecedented reforms in education and medical facilities, hub centre of IT sector, and a lot more. That makes India the shining star of future and youth is the backbone of such aspirations.
But these are the only positive aspects of overpopulation, if we see both the faces of the coin then there is a dismal picture for sure. The uprising of Naxilities, communal fanatics, caste and class rifts, regional antagonists, seditious speeches on the name of resource distribution, unconditional national chauvinism and so on.
On one side the success stories of NCR (voracious consumption house with insatiable hunger), Bangalore (rising silicon valley of India), Hyderabad (IT Hub), Mumbai (financial capital of India) and Ahemdabad (A motivating growth model and new destination for industrialization) are kindling the hope of bright future. But at the same time hostile acts by individuals, riots, insurgencies and fanatic inception leads to the fractured politics with grave consequences where the chasm among the political workers (votaries)are soaring day by day, but its decreasing among the leaders of those ideological groups. To put it more bluntly, in the era of coalition, almost all parties can join hands with any other party (no matter how much ideological differences are) to come into the power (that is their vested interest), but will keep uttering parochial speeches, to solicit the fidelity of divided public on the name of caste, class, region, religion, age, gender, culture, language or faith.
All the above aspects have two things in common. One that they are related to youths of the country (who are energetic and have a lot of potential, vulnerable and large in number) and other that it leads to clash among communities, government, pubic and common people. If we see it more closely than it’s either war of ideology or war of resources and opportunities. Both the issues are indispensable future challenges to tackle and opportunities to grab for the potential superpower of the world, “India”. Let's delineate them one by one.
What makes youth an easy target? An old adage goes like this, “An empty mind is devil's home”. I think this byword is true in case of India. As we are not able to conduit the potential power of youth in constructive manner by providing them employment, platform of discussion for their grievances, moral and ethical education and mental satisfaction. So anything that sounds rational and appears to be yielding draws their attention easily. Somewhere we are also not able to preach them the art of understanding the pedantic details of ideologies and its subtle impacts on real chaotic life. But how it is going to end?
Some one has to take stand as their duty and this time it has to be society itself. All the success and failures of the oldest civilization depends on the way its leaders, its intelligentsia, middle class and lastly its lower class collective responsibility. If the energy of demographic dividend is given right direction then future of world will lie in south Asia. But if it is not done then a new 'middle east' can develop in the heart land of Indian subcontinent.
It’s the public who has to understand that united we stand and dived we fall. We have to have a common identity as “Indian”. We need a leader with placid disposition, who can appease the anger of the Indian youth. The sooner we realize it, the better we perform in future.
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