Today when people in India, talk about the youth of India, they say we are immensely influenced by the West. Specially the political parties are of the notion that we, the youth of India have inculcated all the negatives from the Western culture, but the point I want to put forth is, Indian youth to a large extent has learnt optimism from the same western culture. The US president elect Barack Obama, gives a new point of discussion on the same old lines. His persona is inspiring and no one can disagree with that. Although his policies might or might not be beneficial to India, is a different story altogether. However the way he is preparing his country to face the crisis is something no Indian can ever think of.
Coming back to our motherland, a decade ago when Enron tried to establish a power plant in Maharashtra, ENRON faced a political warfare followed by the report of the Godbole committee which led to the failure of ENRON project, similar to what happened to NANO in West Bengal, except the fact that in ENRON project the opposition was in favor and the government itself was against it. The result, Maharashtra lost a golden opportunity to become self dependent in power sector. Today, people in Maharashtra would have been spared from load shedding, 6 hours in suburbs and up to 16 hours in villages. This is the best example of what I call diversified but not united. Clash of two political parties led to a loss of the state. Here is, where the Americans leave us far behind. In this crisis situation, the democratic leader Barack Obama & the Republican leader John Macain, decided to come together for the their own motherland. Together they will strive for what’s best for America. Today when global financial crisis is ready to knock at India’s door, when banks might be on the verge on bankruptcy; our political leaders are busy in a battle for banks, their vote banks.
This keeps the two countries worlds apart. In India, the focus is still on the forth coming election. The minority parties try to win their vote bank by staging a protest against current government trying to brainwash the lower uneducated class rather than educating them & the opposition and the left together play a hindrance role by opposing promising new deals & the list goes on. It’s high time that political parties in India like the youth be influenced from the west. Ironically this is the same country where people say there is unity in diversity, I would rather say diversified but not united.
