Let me confess…I am sad!
My personal issues are too meager to be sad for. I am sad for the fate of this nation, worried for its future along with mine and those lacs and crores of young people who live and grow up with a sparkling dream in their eyes. I am educated (that’s what I am often referred to as!), working, earning doing reasonably good at this age, but the thought that scares me is what will I be able to do from now? My countrymen are scaring me now because until I was I kid, I knew nothing, but now I am seeing things and the worst thought is that this is just the beginning!
A country that was formed on the bed of partition (with some men responsible for it), run on the wheels of democracy and exploited and developed at a rapid pace is now at a juncture where we are in a risk of pace of exploitation overtaking the pace of development. With all this development around, the exploitation has also developed. The one who wants to work sincerely and honestly has no or very little value, whether it is business or service. If I take up a job, I will have a routine life, with routine increments according to my degree and a routine dead end. If I want to start a business and do that honestly, what?? Business, Honestly!?? Business can be either run successfully or honestly in this country. Then what do I do?
If I start a business there are 14 odd government agencies who directly or indirectly get involved in it, if I take up a job, my progress may get restricted after a point and I am expected to pay my taxes honestly, I can’t use social media to my comfort (some minister will object to it), I cannot fearlessly commute in trains or shop in crowded markets, as I am not sure which moment I will be fired or bombed, I cannot enter into politics because I will have to make a huge investment there to keep senior leaders happy and with no guarantee of returns, I face the challenge of reservation almost everywhere demeaning my capabilities and thoughts, I cannot enter into good colleges because either donations are too high or my contacts are too low and there are many more things that force me to think this way!
I mean it’s been 65 since independence, after numerous elections, number of prime ministers, number of chief minister, hundreds of ultra intelligent people sitting and planning for me, I fail to understand what I must do and how I must proceed.
If anything has grown in this country at rapid pace, it’s been corruption. Along with corruption, ugly politics and transfer of funds to Swiss bank have increased the pace of exploitation. The number of scams I get to see daily make me feel cheated at every moment. Let me list a few of them:
1. Commonwealth Scam
2. 2G scam
3. Mining scam
4. Rice export scam
5. Tax evasion scam
6. Stamp paper scam
7. Taj corridor scam
It’s a never ending list and believe me this is just the tip of the iceberg. You put up ‘list of scams in India since independence’ on Google and it results in 57000 pages in .27 seconds!!
So how do I survive? Somebody please help me. I am not a loser for sure, but I need not be forced to fight for what belongs to me. When fight for independence against Britishers was being fought, look at the way those people fought, with all their heart and body and resources because they were fighting for themselves against outsiders. Now, I am being forced to fight with myself against my own men. I stand here as Arjun, with whole of his family against him, and he was reluctant to fight. He knew he can fight, he knew he will win, but for what and against whom? Own people?
It was unacceptable to him that time and to me now. But when time will demand, I will have to start firing arrows against my own men. Be aware, my own people, the moment I gain unity with myself and let my flood gates go loose, the history will change forever and for better. I am positive, I want to grow along with everyone and become recognizable and I am confident that I possess the power to rewrite history.
I am the Youth!
Signing Off
Siddharth!
