Opinion View From The Right: Bharat’s Youth
An Organiser article slams non-NDA parties for the Parliament logjam, saying that their actions and decisions on national issues, too, are vote-bank-centric, which may even harm the country’s interests.
The Organiser editorial praises today’s youth for being “conscious of their responsibility and prepared to be drivers of change in Bharat”. It says that India’s population “has turned into an asset because our minds are freed from the clutches of socialist thinking, where government was expected to do everything. Opening of the market, though under foreign pressures, enabled Bharatiya minds to apply their ideas, skills and ability to customise things as per needs, popularly known as jugaad.”
The editorial also claims that the high number of youth with technological exposure is another reason for this turnaround. “Bharat is the fastest growing market for Android phones. Not just because our per capita income and purchasing power have increased but because we adapted to changing technology as per societal needs. That is the reason a youth turning a car battery into a mobile charger for a whole village or a start-up coming up with solar energy chargers are becoming rules in Bharat’s resurgence as a ‘great’ power in a real sense…” The editorial also attributes this to the change of government at the Centre, which is promoting “ease of doing business” and skill development. It says that present-day youth are demystifying the conventional idea that Bharat is the land of spirituality and, therefore, promotes the philosophy of poverty: “Despite of aggressions and colonial drain of economic resources, we survived… as a nation because our social networking and business activities were never state-centric but society-centric…”
Immature Leadership
An Organiser article slams non-NDA parties for the Parliament logjam, saying that their actions and decisions on national issues, too, are vote-bank-centric, which may even harm the country’s interests. Yet, these parties are not bothered, it alleges. The article, by Surendra Kumar Gupta, takes exception to “the negative attitude being adopted by the Congress at the moment”. According to the article, the new development reveals that its top leadership is immature, since it is in the hands of a younger and inexperienced group affiliated to Rahul Gandhi, while Congress seniors are neglected.
“Also, the utterances being made by Rahul Gandhi in the recent past pinpointing [the] PM as ‘soot boot ki sarkar’ or ‘we will make 56” ki chhati as 5.6” in six months’ are below the belt and do not qualify to be spoken in Parliament or among the educated public. The irony is that no senior and genuine person of the Congress is daring to oppose the immature decisions of Rahul Gandhi, despite knowing the fact that with this attitude, a 125-year-old party will be doomed.” The article adds that this is the worst period for the Congress, wherein there is really a paucity of sensible leaders. It has also asked Gandhi to clarify what criteria were being followed in the appointments to key posts during Congress rule for the greater part of the last 60 years. “Now, at this moment… staunch public pressure needs to be built up so that political parties start behaving responsibly in the interest of our motherland…” says the article.
India Vs Bharat
The Panchajanya editorial asks whether India is Bharat. Quoting author Patrick French, the editorial says Jawaharlal Nehru’s The Discovery of India lacks historical facts and is based on romantic ideas about India. Is there any difference between India and Bharat? The editorial asks not to mistake one for the other: “There is lot of difference — the quality of both are entirely different… Bharat talks about globalisation, but India has not come out of the slave mentality of the Commonwealth…” The editorial criticises the Congress, which ruled the country for nearly seven decades, and asks whether those who were in power were not responsible for the small and big riots. And it asks why, despite policies of appeasement, those communities are still socially backward.
The editorial argues that Nehru’s India had dominated over Mahatma Gandhi’s idea of Bharat. Pointing out that the Mahatma had criticised Christian missionaries, it says that under Nehru’s party’s rule, conversion was allowed and even those who had taken the lives of our soldiers were promoted. A study on the contradiction between India and Bharat will be interesting and thought provoking, it argues, and asks people to think about these contradictions on the occasion of the 69th Independence Day.
Compiled by Liz Mathew
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