Ideology less Indian youth

521 million of Indian population is between 12 and 35.
Out of which 268 are men and 253 women.
68.9% of which live in villages.
67% of which are unaware of internet.
86.7% of which don't go to movie theater.
76.8% never listen to radio.
40.9% never watch T.V.
44.2% watch T.V. once a week.
22% read daily Hindi and English.
SOURCE:-INDIA TODAY.
This statistic gives amazing insight of Indian success story. The youth which we are proud of and boast of as we are second youngest country in the world after China, forms almost 50% of Indian population has nothing to with what is going around the world. Only 40% of this population seems to have time to vest into be well informed citizen. We as a country are losing battle in front of our own eyes with the moral of our own society. Our youth has grown up with the major events like Kargil, Godhra, terrorism and Hindutva. Now the most important question comes "Why didn't it effect the Indian youth to participate in politics?" The modern day youth of India is more concern about new mobile model coming into the market, life style of SRK, Big B, and likes of Rajnikant, they give more importance to Dhoni then Advani or Manmohan Singh. The basic system of the ideology has been carved out, someone needs to restore that. No media person or politician or any of the well known personality has stood up to even articulate the idea of how to generate the interest of youth in Indian politics. The few who stood up have done so to make them vote for those who are in already there in the politics and paving their heir to take on from where their parents had left or leave. The main problem is that India had a history of 60 years post independence and this history is not there in the history books. Now, When the World Wars have also been omitted from the history books. The only source for the youth to understand the Cold War period, World Wars and world history is few informative TV channels like History and NGC. So, there is still the chance that these youth can know about modern day world political demographics. But what about our own country.
Three months back, when I joined a highly reputable software firm there I had chance to speak on terrorism as a part of personality development program. Everybody was asked to speak on certain topic in our batch of 30 trainees. Everyone seemed to like the way i presented my views. I was happy and delighted with it, it gave moral boost that I can express and prove my point in between highly educated people. One of my friend who was also my classmate in collage had to speak on his own state, he belongs to Assam. He said that his state has been in problem due to terrorism and has been suffering a lot about it makes waves in News only on those days when certain incidents happen in that place, next day media forgets it. While when Bihar was hit by flood, many politicians and media came forward made an issue out of it, due to many high profile people came up for support. I tried to explain it to him way it was so with some facts and figure, Assam is not even half of Bihar in number of seats it has in parliament. Assam had never witnesses any political revolution and so it always had politicians but never had any leader. What he asked next was the most obvious question of a helpless Indian always arrives at "This is not the answer of helplessness of my state".
He completely refused to buy it. So, I asked him a question "Why don't you join politics and change the face of Assam?” He completely became silent no words murmured. After few seconds he said it is not possible for everyone. This answer raises a question in my mind "why?” So, I took pain in figuring it out.
I questioned about 50 of my peers mostly males
1) Is our youth aware of our recent past?
So I asked them whether they knew who J.P.Narayan is
With this figure I had a dilemma, if I have few unwanted facts with me or these techies are bunch of uninformed citizens.
Only 2 answered. Both of them were correct but percentage only 4%.
2) Do you want to join politics at some later part of life?
Nil, no one gave a positive answer.
3) Why not?
This question got response in verity of known issues.
I don't want to be one, never had interest, no political leader interest me, never got properly exposed to it, etc.
What I figure out is we should give proper heed to few facts
1) Social media should take up responsibility to teach youth about independent India.
2) There should be an extra chapter on it in history books.
3) Young politicians like Rahul, Pilot and Scindia should raise secular issue which touches young India and interest them to take part in politics voluntarily like old golden days.
4) Parents should take up the responsibly of not getting young generation to be bitten by pangs on urbanization and teach their kids about social, political and moral responsibility.
I here conclude by saying please vote.
Jai Hind.