Letter to Youth
Ph,D
Scholar
Department
of Commerce
Delhi
School of Economics
University
of Delhi
My Dear Young
Friends and Future of India
Chilled Cold December
29, 2019 Morning Greetings to All of You
The subsequential parliamentary, judicial and
executive activities in last six months and youth responses over these
activities, instigated me to write this piece to express my concern which is
purely my personal opinion.
In the parliamentary democracy, debate, discussion and
free expression of opinion, is
indispensable part of a Republic Nation so is the case with our great Nation-
India. Youth’s participation in national dialogue is equally important. We as
the youth of this great nation have demonstrated our participation
overwhelmingly through different ways, in many national dialogues, be it issues
of Uri, Balakot Strike, 2019 General Election, Rumors of EVMs hijacking, Tripple
Talaq, Abrogation of Article
370, Ram temple, NRC and CAA. After Anna Hazare’s mass agitation for Jan Lokpal
Bill some more than five years ago, we have not witnessed any such mass
movement except recent one on NRC and CAA which is not the subject matter of
this conversation. The matter of the conversation here is issues of informative
ambiances surrounding youth. My personal observation is, the informative
environment where we are living has
deeply divided into Pro and Anti which is highly dangerous for the wholistic
betterment of all of us and the nation as well. We youth are being served
highly ideologically biased information. Although, its correctness and validity
are unquestionable up to some extent. In social science nothing is right and
nothing is wrong, it’s the context that decides what is wrong and what is
right. But the way it is being served, is highly dangerous for all of us,
because we all are in our growing stage, we should not sway ourselves to only one school of
thoughts. We should have the obligation to know the other aspects, it is
equally important for us. After having the wholistic view of the subject
matters, forming our own opinion seems to be much better than knowing only one
aspect of the subject matters. But unfortunately, we youth have become highly
ideologically skewed and there is a huge gap of strong sense of coherence. We
have reached at a level where some are labeled as Bhakt or pro government and others
as anti-government by each other. It’s very
painful to say that it has become our identity in our social groups. Even in our
universities, the blindness for one aspect has deeply penetrated among all of us.
The level and intensity of this penetration can effortlessly be sensed that,
the moment we start putting our view against any issues we are categorized as
anti and the moment we start putting our view in the favor, we are labeled as
Bhakt or pro government, without completely listening his/her opinion. The
institutions and society are losing the basic essence of constructive and intellectually
imbibed discussion.
In all these scenarios the role of social networking sites
and print and electronic media can not be ignored. Social media has deeply
penetrated in every nook and corner of India with negligible regulatory
mechanism. Not only this, it is also playing the dominating role in our good or
bad state of being. If my friends have not posted my photographs on his/her
WhatsApp status on any of my auspicious occasions, most of us start feeling bad.
Look at the power of these social networking sites, even the depthless and intensity
of our personal and private relations are being measured through the activities
on these sites. It is the classic example of prosumer where we are the
content creator and content consumer without any limits and negligible
restrictions. So, the people having their own agendas keep on feeding us on
such platform and we become victim of it. More than 70 percent of our young friends
(18-24 years old) in India have no privilege to enroll for higher education and
less than one percent have privilege to enroll for highest academic degree
(Ph.D).
These days media are being highly criticized and
accused for being biased and highly skewed towards political parties. Even in
the news media industry which is called forth pillar of democracy, we have made
the distinction between pro and anti. None of us have any data to substantially
prove that, what I think that media industry of our country is following the
capitalist model for successful operation of their business. They are riding on
popularity of individuals and taking the huge advantage of adamant deep
division among us and according serving the news to enchant their viewers.
Thus, increasing their TRP.
Dear friends we have to be highly conscious with the
kinds of development taking place at a platform where we are spending lots of
our precious time. In such a highly skewed world, we need to understand the
difference between their jobs and our jobs, their duties and our duties.
Whatever they are, whatever they do, how they think; it’s all their identity.
They are known for it and doing so is the sources of their bread and butter. It
may not necessarily become our identity till the time we are at the growing and
academic learning stage.
Note. Inspired from Deepika Ma'am, Delhi School of Economics...provided lots of data for the same.
Note. Inspired from Deepika Ma'am, Delhi School of Economics...provided lots of data for the same.
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