What Young Indians Want

We have all at some point or the other heard from our elders that the children of this generation are very smart and they keep getting smarter, it is very true. We on one hand want to have a very comfortable and luxurious lifestyle which all of us would agree is best provided to us by the foreign countries and on the other hand we have a conscience that says that we must at least try to repay what our country has given us in the form of knowledge and made us what we are today. Whatever we are today, we must be good, only then the foreign countries would want us to come there and what we are today is a lot because of the education and knowledge our country has embarked upon us.

So today’s youth is facing a huge dilemma as to what should he choose, should he get lured by the foreign lifestyle and add to the continuous Brain Drain or should he stay here and try to repay his country for all that it has done for him. After writing all this I suddenly realized that I too didn’t have an answer to this and didn’t know where I was heading so to give it a direction I thought a bit and the following realization struck me. All that I mentioned earlier is given to us not by the country but by the government and well I have a huge list of things or rather rights the government has snatched from us. Let’s try to mention some. The government has gulped a lot of our money in the form of corruption, the government processes have taken up a lot of our very valuable time due to their sloppy governance, the politicians have subsidized food (subsidized food specifically because the luxuries might provide them an environment for them to be more productive but giving off subsidized food and products doesn’t make sense) from our money and the government doesn’t even feel that it is unnecessary let alone consider it wrong. The biggest thing it has taken from the youth particularly is their right to get what they have earned, what they deserve. Due to reservation thousands of students don’t get what they deserve. And why doesn’t the government even consider removing it because they have a whole load of votes “reserved” from the reserved category. Then there is this power system, where power (satta) carries a huge value when ideally it shouldn’t really carry a value at all I mean finally it’s just a profession, politicians aren’t really doing that big a job. So logically it isn’t really unethical to go to foreign countries in search of a better lifestyle.

Lifestyle isn’t really the only reason. When your talent deserves some value and respect, you hope or rather expect to get it. The best thing about the United States is that they value talent more than anything else. It is evident from the fact that I haven’t heard of one big company run by a family in the US. Now take a moment and look at India, here companies (like Reliance, Birla group of companies, Tata), political parties and even film industry is run by families. India must first start valuing and respecting talent more than anything else if it wants the brains of India to stay in India. Obviously no one wants to stay at a place where they aren’t valued so why do the people think would the brains of India stay here when they aren’t valued here and valued a lot more in other countries.

I just gave a solution to the biggest problem of India, Brain Drain and I really think that the implementation of the solution doesn’t ask much, it just asks for a change in ideology. But well this is India and it’s about power so I can’t really see it happening. And if the Brains aren’t being valued I totally support the Brains in getting the hell out of this power obsessed country even if it considers them ungrateful as an unethical person judging us doesn’t really bother us, does it?

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