Governance

"Vi Veri Veniversum Vivus Vici"
By the power of truth, I, while living, have conquered the Universe.

The Five Vs spoken by Dr.Faust, the German alchemist of legend to the demon Mephistopheles, when he agreed to trade his soul in exchange for knowledge, later inspiring Alan Moore to create his epic graphic novel V for Vendetta, which is about totalitarian Britain, and freedom as a perspective.

The novel is also heavily anarchist. Now here is a great misunderstanding. Most of us think anarchy means without order; anarchy means without leaders. Monarchy = Anarchy.
Which brings me to my main point about governance.
If you are a teenager, if you fall into that category who are regarded as the 'youth and future' of the nation, then think carefully about what I have to say.
The majority of the youth apes the west, thinks their culture and heritage are something that should be ashamed of, think that speaking in their mother tongues or vernacular languages are something which uncivilised people do, and so on. We sit and blame the government for almost everything around us, think politicians are a bunch of corrupt, rotting old men, and think that there will never be change.
And at this rate, there never will be a change.
Think about all your friends, all the people who are in the age group of 16 - 24, and think of what your future jobs will be.
Then, think about how many of them fall into the following three categories:
1. Agriculture
2. Industry
3. Administration
I'm taking the liberty to assume that it really won't be a stellar majority, which leads to the next question.
From which angle is India Shining?
India today is like the moon, reflecting the Sun's light and deluding itself into believing that the light is its own. Most of our money comes from MNCs and global corporates, and most of our best labour goes into them as well. India right now may be doing very well indeed, but at best it is being carried along on supplied crutches, and when the crutches are removed, the fall might be one that will take a very long to recover from.
The above three industries are the backbone of any nation's development, and if the youth, if the brightest and freshest and most idealistic minds opt to shift away from them, opt to see no future in them, then in which direction is the country headed?
The government needs to seriously rethink its policies, needs to seriously revamp its syllabus and textbooks, and needs to seriously think about removing the Iron Curtain it has currently put up that shuns most of its best potential.
What India today needs are students pouring out of universities and colleges and schools not only with all the usual jobs in mind, but also needs a sizable portion to think about going into the above mentioned industries.
The government recently gave the go-ahead to a medical bill that stated that all doctors should spend a particular time period working in rural India, and I feel that this sort of rule should be extended to as many industries as feasible, because sitting in your air conditioned home in Bandra, sipping on cafe latte and watching Seinfeld, it'll be too easy to fall into the illusion of India Shining.