Many people say that the Indian youth will be able to solve the problems of India.
I have grave doubts about this. My own opinion is that though Indian youth may be very good in engineering, computers, etc, most of them are politically naive and simpletons ( even the educated ones ),,who are guided by emotion rather than reason, whom any demagogue can take for a ride, and who like children will stupidly follow any Pied Piper of Hamelin who can befool them by selling them a dream, a Sapnon ka Saudagar.
How else can one explain the mass seduction of Indian youth by Modi because of which they voted for him en masse in the Lok Sabha Elections of May, 2014 ?
I spoke to a large number of youth in India at that time, students of various Universities, engineering colleges etc from across the country,and my estimate is that 80 to 90% of them, cutting through caste and community lines, had become solid Modi supporters. And why ? Obviously because.they were carried away by Modi's slogan ' vikas ' ( development ), which they interpreted to mean creation of millions of jobs for them.
There was no doubt a contributory cause, which was disgust with the corruption during UPA rule and dynastic politics so brazenly practised by Sonia Gandhi, who arrogantly imagined herself to be an Empress or Czarina whom all Indians must slavishly obey as she was the head of India's 'royal ' family. But the catch word used by Modi was ' vikas '.
I expressed my reservations to these young folks at that time about the vikas slogan, and about Modi's economic policy, which was really the ' Trickle Down Theory ', about which I have written on facebook and my blog justicekatju.blogspot.in. I explained to them that Modi's economic policy may benefit a few big businessmen but it will destroy jobs, rather than creating them ( see my article ' The Party is Over ' and ' The Dream has Evaporated ' on fb and my blog ). But they were just not prepared to listen. They appeared to have been mesmerized by Modi.
What I told them has now been clearly proved in reality. The economy is at a standstill, manufacturing is stagnant, and lay offs are taking place instead of jobs being created.. The Delhi Assembly election result clearly proves that the youth have now realized that they were taken for a ride by Modi to get their votes, and have now been left in the lurch. But 'ab pachtaye hot kya, chidiyan chug gayeen khet '.
So young people of India, now that you have seen through Modi ( there was nothing ever in the man in the first place ) seek some other Pied Piper to follow, some other Sapnon ka Saudagar who will sell you some other dream, like a romantic film, which no doubt you will enjoy.
I have grave doubts about this. My own opinion is that though Indian youth may be very good in engineering, computers, etc, most of them are politically naive and simpletons ( even the educated ones ),,who are guided by emotion rather than reason, whom any demagogue can take for a ride, and who like children will stupidly follow any Pied Piper of Hamelin who can befool them by selling them a dream, a Sapnon ka Saudagar.
How else can one explain the mass seduction of Indian youth by Modi because of which they voted for him en masse in the Lok Sabha Elections of May, 2014 ?
I spoke to a large number of youth in India at that time, students of various Universities, engineering colleges etc from across the country,and my estimate is that 80 to 90% of them, cutting through caste and community lines, had become solid Modi supporters. And why ? Obviously because.they were carried away by Modi's slogan ' vikas ' ( development ), which they interpreted to mean creation of millions of jobs for them.
There was no doubt a contributory cause, which was disgust with the corruption during UPA rule and dynastic politics so brazenly practised by Sonia Gandhi, who arrogantly imagined herself to be an Empress or Czarina whom all Indians must slavishly obey as she was the head of India's 'royal ' family. But the catch word used by Modi was ' vikas '.
I expressed my reservations to these young folks at that time about the vikas slogan, and about Modi's economic policy, which was really the ' Trickle Down Theory ', about which I have written on facebook and my blog justicekatju.blogspot.in. I explained to them that Modi's economic policy may benefit a few big businessmen but it will destroy jobs, rather than creating them ( see my article ' The Party is Over ' and ' The Dream has Evaporated ' on fb and my blog ). But they were just not prepared to listen. They appeared to have been mesmerized by Modi.
What I told them has now been clearly proved in reality. The economy is at a standstill, manufacturing is stagnant, and lay offs are taking place instead of jobs being created.. The Delhi Assembly election result clearly proves that the youth have now realized that they were taken for a ride by Modi to get their votes, and have now been left in the lurch. But 'ab pachtaye hot kya, chidiyan chug gayeen khet '.
So young people of India, now that you have seen through Modi ( there was nothing ever in the man in the first place ) seek some other Pied Piper to follow, some other Sapnon ka Saudagar who will sell you some other dream, like a romantic film, which no doubt you will enjoy.
