Raise your voice and shout! Let anger boil up inside you so that like a stream of fire your voice carries the hurts and atrocities that are perpetrated around you. Let your angst build like a dark storm over a sleeping sea. Let like minded people, courageous people meet and merge so that you form one, heavy, unbeatable storm, raging and flashing and mighty in its strength. Only then can the youth beat down the terrible monsters of greed, corruption and unabashed criminalisation.
The ideas and ideals of our leaders at the time of India's Independence have not lead to the Utopia we dreamt about. Instead, over sixty years of self rule have only led to poverty, to the extent that today, there are more dispossessed people in India than the entire population in 1948! Rape and scam are not rare cases that turn up in CBI files but are unabashedly, 'The Norm'. The word governance and corruption are synonymous! Let's be very clear, their ideas have not worked and today's youth HAS TO be the change.
How nice would it be if with one sweep of the duster we could mop up the scawly marks on the blackboard and rewrite in neat, legible handwriting. But the hand that holds the duster is itself tainted, is itself stuffed with crores of ill-gained money. It tells itself that it must clean up, but the hand holding the duster is left aloft, and will not touch the blackboard.
They youth must be committed and courageous and should be the harbingers of change! They must not succumb to various influences like media, politics and religious fanatism. Ajmal Amir Kasab wasted his youth... need I say more?
And so, we must struggle! Not a lone voice, not 8 or 10 thousand righteous individuals, but the YOUTH, the entire youth of the country must raise its voice. The energy, the anger, the innate goodness that shines in the eyes of young people must emerge, must flow in a strong current. Do not suppress it with mealy mouthed prayers or apathy. Write about it, shout it out, and only then can you vanquish this depravity.
It is time for intolerance, it is time for anger, it is time to fight! To tolerate wrongs only makes one a criminal, to stay away from required action only perpetrates the wrongs. So, wake up, summon up those feelings and storm inside you, question the last generation, shake them and ask them why and how did they allow this to happen to our country. Hold them accountable, and now, hold yourself accountable for the next generation!
The ideas and ideals of our leaders at the time of India's Independence have not lead to the Utopia we dreamt about. Instead, over sixty years of self rule have only led to poverty, to the extent that today, there are more dispossessed people in India than the entire population in 1948! Rape and scam are not rare cases that turn up in CBI files but are unabashedly, 'The Norm'. The word governance and corruption are synonymous! Let's be very clear, their ideas have not worked and today's youth HAS TO be the change.
How nice would it be if with one sweep of the duster we could mop up the scawly marks on the blackboard and rewrite in neat, legible handwriting. But the hand that holds the duster is itself tainted, is itself stuffed with crores of ill-gained money. It tells itself that it must clean up, but the hand holding the duster is left aloft, and will not touch the blackboard.
They youth must be committed and courageous and should be the harbingers of change! They must not succumb to various influences like media, politics and religious fanatism. Ajmal Amir Kasab wasted his youth... need I say more?
And so, we must struggle! Not a lone voice, not 8 or 10 thousand righteous individuals, but the YOUTH, the entire youth of the country must raise its voice. The energy, the anger, the innate goodness that shines in the eyes of young people must emerge, must flow in a strong current. Do not suppress it with mealy mouthed prayers or apathy. Write about it, shout it out, and only then can you vanquish this depravity.
It is time for intolerance, it is time for anger, it is time to fight! To tolerate wrongs only makes one a criminal, to stay away from required action only perpetrates the wrongs. So, wake up, summon up those feelings and storm inside you, question the last generation, shake them and ask them why and how did they allow this to happen to our country. Hold them accountable, and now, hold yourself accountable for the next generation!
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