Recently ‘ve been reading an article on Businessworld that has been putting a lot of pressure on the way the media today pushes reports and “reports” news rather than guiding the youth about whats right.
But the Article, which came as a case study highlited a school where the students where checking out news,crappy news on a Laptop. Now that is something that you’ll see only in Rich schools and mainly in the Metros of the country. It said that the 11th and 12th graders of the country are reading news about Rakh Sawant, knew about the Country’s GDP Strenghts etc but where not concerned about the problems faced by the country (it gave the example of Maoists).
But the Magazine forgets one thing. Junior College students in such Rich schools form a small fraction of the country’s huge youthful population. Let us take the Population in good or in nearly good schools to be about 5% (i know that’s big). Out of that about 3% or nearly 4%(80% of the group) would be spoilt brats. The rest are somewhat talented and ambitious.
Sum : 1 out of 100
Now out of the rest not-so-lucky 95%, 2% would have the crave to better their lives and get out of poverty and excel.
Sum : 3 out of 100
These talented and informed 3 people have the ambitions to be the best in their fields, live the so-called “high-life”.
These are the 3 people who now have the resposibility to create job opportunities for the rest 97 people who might not be as smart as them but are still worthy enough. They can work and help the economy grow. But the 97% is surely not interested in state politics or about where the country is heading or what the country has the potential to do.
Now the “Talented 3″ become so concerned about the future that some fights going on in some remote place in the country does not seem important to them. Readin and knowing about the wrong people seems highly unuseful and a big waste of time to them. Why would they do something that would bring harm to them or to their families(which is the case many a times when concerned person tries to raise a voice against the wrong or faulty)
So the “Talented 3″ will continue to make impacts on the economy while the rest 97 will support them. So no one cares whose right or wrong and surely not about what needs to be done.
But the question is What is more important, Creating jobs for the 97 or trying to solve a long time problem in a remote area of the country?
