“Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president, but they do not want them to become politician in the process” - John F Kennedy
Respected Anna Jee,
This is one among the 121 Crores Indians who is also ashamed of the rampant corruption in our beloved nation. I am around one-third of your age but I do not feel shame to say that you are younger than me and from many of us. The courage and succor which you have shown against the corrupt and powerful politicians cannot be appreciated in words. Yet, no individual of our age gathered that much courage.
About 40% of our populations are under the age of 15-40 but still the corruption is on rampant. The people involved in big corruption will be around 2-3% and most of them will be surely above the age of 50.
Frankly speaking, I did not know about you till your name came out in the media for the crusade against corruption. I did some google on you and heard some of your speeches.
Sir, what I want to say here is that there is huge difference in the youth of this generation from the time when you were of our age.
After the economic liberalization of India in 1991, the employment opportunities in India has increased manifold but after becoming economically self dependant, the social responsibility has gone drastically. You will find that only economically poor and middle class come out to cast their vote.
The students of today study very hard to get entry in medical and engineering college. The intention is not to become good doctor or engineer but to get placed where they can get maximum money in hand. We have top class management college as IIM, XLRI etc, there students are not discussing to become efficient manager or leader of India but about the placements in abroad or in MNC with big pay scale. Only countable numbers of IIT or IIM students are known to all India like Chetan Bhagat, Satyendar Dubey, Arvind Kejriwal, N R Murthy, Nandan Nilekani etc. No one knows where others are hiding with their immense talent and potential.
The so called intellectual person of India does not bother much about the politics and the corruption of India. They get all their work done simply by paying the money here and there. Their life revolves around office, friends, movies, weekend outings, discs, pub, malls, parties, share-market, business opportunities, saving tax etc. They never think or dare to clean the system. These are the people who have the potential to bring the change but they do not want to risk their life. They move only on the safe path.
The alcohol has occupied a very very important position in the life of today’s youth. No celebration is complete without alcohol. This is the minimum and must require in every celebration of the youth. Report says that 80% of the hostel students consume alcohol. Even the ladies are not left behind. The alcohol consumption is growing at an alarming rate among Indian females.
In your time, the husband and wife relationship used to be very sacred and among the many, physical relationship is one which separates the husband and wife relationship from others. Come and see in the metropolitan cities of yours, the marriage has lost its meaning and significance and there is nothing as unique or different which exists only in the husband- wife relationship. The living in relationship is an upcoming trend in India in which an adult male and female can live together without marriage. Now the college students prefer to stay with female partner instead of male partner. The partner is changed when they enter their job life and again changed when they are moving from one city to another. All this happens in the name of the big word called LOVE. The line between the big and small cities is not so thick. This is very thin and very soon this will be blurred.
Coming back to the point, why very few people who are more than age of 50 are corrupt and do that in front of huge youth crowd. This is because there is no the same sentiment in today’s youth which you still carry even after so many years of your contribution in Indo-Pak war. You have seen all the Indo-Pak war and Indo – China war after India’s Independence. You know the meaning of the Nation and motherland better than us. The feeling which you have for the mother India is surely missing in today’s youth brigade. Your blood would have boiled so many times against the enemies of our beloved India. Today, almost all the youth, particularly from the big cities, want to avoid taking risk in politics. There is no hope from the politics and politicians of India. The word Politics itself has become a very dirty word. The political power of India is confined to very rare number of people and their families but they make impact on remaining Indians. As said above, the intelluctals of India are economically self dependant and does not bother about social issues. The person who has the potential has their own set of worlds around them and they do not go beyond that. Mainly the middle and poor class are impacted by the corruption. They have the energy but they lack the directions, knowledge and proper leadership. In extreme, they become the member of Naxalisms. Forget about the blood to boil, this is not warm even. This is very much frozen.
You have to inculcate your burning spirits among us. We have got our faith in you. As of now, I have brief understanding of the Lokpall Bill in which you are asking to include members other than the government body to implicate the people in power. Sir, we also need to cleanse the politics of India. The power lies in the hand of very few people and their families. The political system is so inaccessible that either the same person or their family members get elected every time. The person with huge wealth only can think of contesting election. Their first motto is to get more in return than spent while contesting election. It is very hard for an honest and common man to contest an election. Though ours is a democratic country but in reality this democracy is a game played by only few in a circle and the rest watches the circle from far as a mere mute spectator. We have to tear the grave darkness of politics. We want our frozen blood to boil. In all these, we want you as our leader.
May God bestow you to see the prosperous, corruption free and developed India.
JAI HIND! JAI BHARAT!
