We cannot blame the young.

The youth in the country is being perpetually insulted of their being valueless. If at all it is true, is it their fault, or the fault of the powers that be? I remember a father beating his grown up son for getting intoxicated while the former is an addict himself; when I politely asked him how and by hat right he can perpetuate this atrocity on his son, his answer was that he was the justification; he had spoilt himself by consuming alcohol; doesn’t the young man see what calamity he had fallen in? This is a very sorrowful side of the whole anathema. The problem is that the grown-ups are more indigent of values. They have no right to incriminate the youth for the present degraded society.
And after all, is the present society that much valueless. Let us examine the cases of molesting women. Earlier, even today it is at certain places in India, the molestation of women of lower castes was a legal right of the Zamindar or the landlord. At least in Kerala, I know, it is not possible today. Landlordism and feudalism are gone for ever. It would be an anachronism if anyone claims any right over any woman for the pleasure of the flesh.

But lust is there, there are rackets inviting girls and customers for the oldest profession. One of the greatest advantages of our media is that these rackets are soon brought to light; Police are able to book them if there is no knotting interference from the above. Kaviyur, Kilirur, Kottiyam and the like are just a tip of the iceberg. A member of the Legislative assembly running a resort is said to have asked the victim of the Kilirur case to come back after putting on a little more flesh by nourishing food so that he could “employ” her. Shame upon the man! He did not advise the girl to go back to her parents so that she could live decently.
And, always the blame is upon the youth and the students.
The same thing happens in politics. I for one believe that politics should never be an office of remuneration. It should not and must not be a livelihood. What is politics after all? It is the readiness on the part of an individual to sacrifice an amount of time in his life to serve the society. What do we hear? We hear about millions. In the Parliament, the most respected Members of the Loksabha, the greatest house of democracy exhibit bundles of notes they said they were given by some other politician to vote in favor of the confidence motion. And this shameless affair was not punished by a “very constitutional” Speaker of the Loksabha. ; He was constitutional enough to discard his party mandate in order to save the ones who wanted to bribe the members to vote for the Confidence.

And always the blame is upon the youth and students.
This is time for us to ponder over the issue. Is there not a brave young man to come out with courage to question the corruption and evils of the grown ups? One like Che Guevara?

(Two)

Two youngsters have brought Oscar to our country with an old lyricist. It is certainly a great attainment. But are certain prizes flowing to India like the “World Beauty Queen” “or the “Beauty Queen of the Universe?”. Are these prizes truly genuine or are they the attempt of the imperialists to lustrate the Indian market? WE should be very careful lest the dog should bite us. We are not now very much agitated when the children of Gaza are taken to school and shot dead there. We are not very much agitated about flouting humanism at all places by America. The new US President is acting our hope and expectation; he like his predecessor pretends immunity from allowing peoples to have their own ways.
Things go as they were. Kinta Kunte was taken by the Whites when he was just playing in his most favorite spot in nature. At least that is what Alexi Hailey tells us in his Roots. I felt Kinta was becoming US president. If it was Kinta who became US President through Barak Hussein Obama Afghanistan would be a free nation today, there would be no more intimidations. But things persist as they were.

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Election to the Loksabha is on. Parties and parleys are active in calculations and counting. UPA disgraced our country by the infamous 123 Agreement, by its unholy ties with Israel culminating in the sad demise of the Non-Aligned Foreign policy. The NDA began the process and is still after demolition of houses of worship and massacring of the minorities. Hence the third front is the most legitimate alternative. An alliance of the left with TDP, AIADMK, BJD, and the like parties is not a force to be written off. But we in Kerala suffer from CPI and Janata Dal) S). (Why that ‘S’ there in the brackets, God knows)
After all they are not to measure the water that flowed in the Chamravattom River. (A river in Ponnani, Kerala, India). Janata Dal does not know how many peasants had committed suicide in Wynad owing to inability to repay loans. And the great Bumble from the Jain religion has to go to his own people to assure them that the left would continue to wipe off their tears. But he is not ready and willing. The great Thirthankara of Kerala politics wants to indulge in city politics and city life. This is where the older generations fail the young.
We cannot blame the young.

Chief Editor