just floating thoughts, not written with grammatical accuracy or technical perfection
They are just random thoughts, might not fit a description of an article, but I assure you there is honesty in it.
Got a lot to say, I would like to make myself heard without being typecast as belonging to some ideology
"blunt, yet a sword, hope to make it sharp"
“Campus Politics” when we hear this, our minds drift to scenes where students clash with police, testing their tolerance by lobbing stones at them, to get tear gas shells in return. We have seen students get beaten up like hoods. We have seen these “future leaders” burn the state’s property, disrupting the lives of hundreds. Well this is how our so-called student leaders(or party proxies) express their views. Any person with sense can see through these dramas. We have seen some nobodys becoming rising stars by just one demonstration.
How did these people become stars? Is it because they did just what their party bosses told them? Is it because they were genuine leaders of students? No
These so-called leaders don’t have the support of 90% of the students, they represent their hypocratic parties rather than the students they claim to represent.
Then who let these people disrupt the lives of the public, destroy the dreams of hundreds of parents whose children became the fuel for some body’s growth?
Is it all we have? Is this the face of our future leaders?
Are the 90% waiting with the dogs for the scraps falling from the MNCs table? Or will they throw these frauds out and take power, gain and breath freedom for them and for the future generations?
You tell me, its for you to decide.
But hey who am I talking to? finish your burger and go sleep. Be the content slave, believe in fake springs, stupid super power dreams. You have time before you, get a green card and say bye to India and bloody Indians.
Politics and the Indian Youth
What we are going to discuss here is kind of boring, it might not excite you, it can’t give you reason to laugh. But I hope it will open some eyes of a sleepy nation.
If you want to discuss politics in class you have to either lean to the left or right, or be a nerd to make yourselves heard. It’s the most boring stuff unless clashes are discussed providing the masala element.. Student leaders need strikes to make their views heard, well it’s the only time we see people happy when politics is talked about. The guy, who talks from study classes he has had, knows its something near to bullshit, we who listen doesn’t care what the hell is said as long as we get to bunk classes. They know their political jargon won’t get takers if it is not accompanied by a strike.
But do they know what is lost when they play this meaningless drama?
They are losing the opportunity to kindle the flame of political awareness in the minds of students.(too far a throw??) They don’t know or look for real material hiding behind those books and mobile phones. Real material to awaken a sleeping nation, instead they look like gang members on the lookout for fresh recruits. They don’t know what they represent; they don’t look for that fire in the eyes which can give light to a nation. There are many people the so-called grown ups shrugging of politics as something so cheap so filthy, though every one likes the power it gives. But these guys should know what is replacing it. You know the human mind always wants to be occupied when it doesn’t find politics it fills the vacuum with more dangerous extremist thoughts, this is were terrorism starts, it starts in the minds of directionless youth.
Some people talk about banning politics from campuses, and some teachers say that 90% of the students don’t support politics, then we should be sorry for the that 90% they are dead people on a sinking ship, they don’t care if the ship sinks because they are already dead. They are people who come to college thinking everything they need is in the books, they don’t know that many things that we need don’t come from books, they come from experiences. They think they are living in a beautiful world or that they can create an artificial one with the bits that MNCs throw from the tables. That’s why their hands shake when they are faced with real situations, that’s why they elect fools to power. that’s why they become fools. They don’t know how their culture is being destroyed how the values we treasured is being destroyed. And when they turn their back on politics they are closing their eyes on a bleeding nation a nation which used to be their mother, a mother whose children are unworthy of her.
Just because of the furore generated on the hanging of a terrorist called Afzal I decided to ask my friends about their opinion on it, and their reply made me cry. The most common reply was, Hey man who the hell is he? Another more enlightened friend told me, “why hang him man, he is a damn good singer”. This is the political awareness among the youth today. Even some of them who knew who he was, borrowed their response from some political angle. Some of them had an advice for me “who but a fool would discuss politics?” my response to them is “who but a fool won’t discuss politics?” Why can’t we discuss it, are we going to live in cocoons? We equate politics to something so cheap that it is worthless to talk about it, but who made it cheap when some superior stuff like us was around. By saying politics I don’t mean the drama played out by political parties in our campuses. It’s called robbery of youth.
Like all forward looking countries India faces many challenges, internal and external ones, the most serious of it terrorism. The shocking fact is that when this disease spread from cramped minds is threatening to destroy our social fabric, the unique Indian culture, our Bharat Mata (I hope can say that without being called a minority basher) we watch it as a spectator. We weave beautiful dreams when the world around us is becoming uglier. Now thanks to these acts of terrorism, we don’t look at our Muslim friend without a shade of distrust, nor does he. We kill each other when the wolf smiles. We keep our knives sharpened to strike our brothers. We are fast becoming a nation which relies on emotions and nothing else; we fail to think we fail to understand the root of the trouble. We divide when we should unite and thrash the forces who seek to destroy us. This is India for you my friend, a nation of 1 billion fools (including you and me) led by sinister opportunists.
Forget the economy, forget Gandhi (anyway we have long replaced him with Modis and Bukharis), we are at war from inside and we are losing it before fighting it. We are crippled by a judicial system which sits on cases for years, which can be bought by money and power. We are crippled by the so called cultural and human rights activists who speak for the poor from the comfort of their Mercedes, but most gravely we are crippled by a senseless direction less youth who think landing in a software company’s office is the last thing in life, who speak politics in campuses when they are far removed from the ground realities.Ya that’s the Indian youth for you spit on me, don’t worry I will wipe it off. We allowed ourselves to spit on. We ignore such things as trivial as politics and we pay for our ignorance.
Who is interested in such things when there are things as important as landing a plumb job, marrying a beautiful person and of course immigrating to US? Who has time to speak about bloody India and its people? Who has time to think about the poor farmer who commits suicide in Vidarbha (why rush to there when Wyanad is nearby) when the sensex is booming and when pretty girls are in college.
We are too busy running after fashion; all those feel good factors which make us forget reality. Our sense of appreciating beauty has gone down to anatomical measurements, our culture is being flushed down the toilet, all those things which we had preserved even during the barbarian onslaughts and the British rule is being washed away. We are fast becoming a nation without identity, but who cares, who realizes it. Well why bother, just blame it on the uneducated politicians, just blame the system, when I dream about my fat paychecks. This is our attitude. Now tell me who can blame the poor uneducated rural politician of looting our country when the educated and informed people like us rest at home.
You cannot blame a system when you are part of it. When we hear about the amount of corruption and lawlessness in our country we show the fire of youth in us by cursing the politicians, by blaming the terrorists, our response is over, now back to text book page no: ##,or to the latest flicks at the box office. When we say this we comfortably forget that we are part of the mess called Modern India. When responsible people sit idle, it is natural that evil flourishes.
Yes friends its time to open your mind, its time to act to safe guard this once great land. When I say this I don’t ask you to fling your books away, and take to the streets to clean the country. I ask to transform yourselves to sensible human beings who don’t swallow the misinformation given by political parties, I ask you to be men and women who stops and looks what is happening around them. I am asking you to be men and women who gives the country something back and grows with the country. In fact I am asking you to free yourselves and free India from the clutches of those thieves who have used our blood to ascend to thrones. Our politicians speak about the threats facing our country from every microphone they can lay their hand on (that’s one thing they are good at) .They have for years fed on our insecurity and transformed it into bungalows .They have made us kill our brothers to fill their ballot boxes. They have drained the blood of our youth to battles planned and executed on election eve. Yet they remain in power. Who said our youth is wasted haven’t they built castles on our skeletons.
Politicians are those people who promise a bridge when there is no river; the sad thing is that we believe them. But we can change it, we can write a new success story, we can pool in our resources we can step into the system and clean it. For that first we should know what is happening around us we should think about them we should respond to them. We should open our minds and discuss these things. There should guys who organizes talks such subjects. They should not shrug it off by saying that’s uninteresting and that students won’t come. For the first time they should do it for the students, they should take responsibility and leadership.
We should not be fooled by the multi crore dramas played by the so called Human rights activists and cultural leaders, we should see through them. We should have the courage to respond to atrocities around us. No we should not start naxalbari; we should open ourselves to hear those crushed voices around us, those people whose dreams have been shattered because we the Indian youth forgot to look after India. We should know our country, we should not be fooled by the sensex booms for prosperity, we should see the pain of the Indian farmer who pays for this superficial prosperity with his life. We should try to understand the Indian soldier who keeps us warm by the warmth of his blood, we should learn from him to love our country; we should learn from him that we owe our country more than what she owes us. I am not saying this to students of castration factories called private colleges, but we should know that engineering though the most important is not the only thing we should learn. Its time to learn my friend its time to grow. We have got a lot to do before the steam runs out of our veins. We have to change the way the system works after all government is an arrangement between you and me, and we could be wrong. So break your cocoon and come out, smell the earth and live with your foot firmly on ground, it’s yours, guard it or lose it. Kahlil Gibran the great Lebanese poet said:
Now let us play hide and seek. Should you hide in my heart it would not be difficult to find you. But should you hide behind your own shell, then it would be useless for anyone to seek you.
So come out be what you are meant to be.
