AMBIGUOUS YOUNG ASPIRATIONS OF ARUNACHALEE YOUTH
Being a youth and in my early twenties, I have lots of aspirations and expectations. Well! I don’t mean to say that I’m ambitious, but it’s true that I dare to make wishes and I’m optimistic about life. I believe that given proper opportunities and adequate openings, I can stand-up to the demands and expectations from me, as also achieving my aspirations. I don’t know; but I just assume that readers’ views would vary; many may consider it boastful; many other may think that it’s a genuine representation of youthful aspiration. Yes, here my point is not about blowing my own trumpet. In fact, it’s an attempt to inquire into the attitudes, aims, aspirations, expectations, community-feeling, sense of community-development and concept of social modernization among Arunachalee Youth in the course of modernization.
At the outset, youth is the citizen of the country/state in the future. That is to say, the present youth is the future administrator, bureaucrat, businessman, entrepreneur, etc. The state of affairs of the country’s/state’s governance or administration heavily leans on the existing stock of young generation (Youth). In nutshell, young generation implies dynamic force, on whose shoulders lay the progress and development of the country/ state.
As of Arunachalee youth, we are also aspiring, energetic, enthusiastic, hard-working, optimistic and also hungry for achieving and acquiring success in every walk of life. Really, we are very talented and possess immense potentials. We also deserve to climb-up the ladder/staircase of success. Evidently, students are cracking national level competitive exams like IIT-JEE, PMT, CAT, to name a few, and accordingly getting admission in prestigious institutions such as IITs, IIMs, AIIMS, etc. Besides, many students are opting for professional courses like Hotel Management, Tourism& Aviation management, Fashion designing, Mass communication, and so on, eyeing career in private sectors/companies.
Youth (educated, uneducated & unemployed alike) are, no longer, desperately seeking govt. jobs; rather we now need/demand for good opportunities, proper infrastructural development and fair-play in administration and corruption-free governance. We are enlightened generations. We care and love our rights, opportunities, privileges and concessions. We can’t simply sit idly any longer. We also want to play our part in the fate of our state, Arunachal. This is the overwhelming feeling of modern-day, enlightened youth of Arunachal.
Unfortunately, despite this positive change in the outlook to life among Arunachalee youth, one alien element has also seeped into our blood, i.e. we have become excessively individualistic in our approach. We are particularly one-sided in our approach. We care for our rights and benefits more, less or almost negligible for our duties and responsibilities towards the society. This individualistic approach pulls us away from contributing our share of gratitude to our society.
Unnecessarily, many of our youth are indulging too much in politics, and many student leaders are charged with political-ambitions. Yes, our youth need to take up roles and responsibilities in the realm of politics, but it should be a handicap for them to explore and eventually realize their dreams and aspirations. Very often, politics is serving as breeding ground for antagonistic attitudes for each other. I don’t mean to say that politics is bad all-in-all, but politics generally is considered an odd job, which necessarily involves manipulations, dishonesty and corruptions at each and every turn & twist. In the context of our state, politics has been a battle ground for hatred, revenge and political hegemony. Besides, factionalism & tribism steadily dominate our mind, and drag us towards religious/cultural fanaticism. Therefore, I genuinely ponder with wonder about the integrity of our student leaders too.
I’m frankly not well-versed with the intricacies of our rituals, but I believe our customary practices are the consequences of series of experiences accumulated through the ages. However, Fake-sympathizers of our cultural identity only know too well to exploit our sentiments and emotions because of our ignorance, simple and straight-forward nature, and recent addition to our characteristic traits, i.e. self-centric life and individualism.
Similarly, Western-enlightened section of our society would prefer to believe that customary practices are laden with superstitions and out-dated assumptions. They, in their race towards future, embrace imported life all too delightfully without even a momentary thought about its long-term impact on our own walks of life.
Obviously, due to our internal tussles and inter-tribe uneasiness, we are, on one hand, pulling ourselves down, and on the other, giving ample and congenial chances to others (outsiders) for their growth & establishment, which they are well-adept at, through blackmail and exploitation of our sentiments and emotions by interpreting ambiguous identity for us, more to benefit themselves than to truly uplift us and make life better for us.
Consequently, our youthful or energetic mind is colonized by ambiguity and negativity. Hopelessness and lack of desire for putting one’s contribution in the progress of our state further eclipse any trace of shine among our youth.
In addition, majority of us have this deep-seated misconception that we can’t do anything worthwhile individually. While we prefer to indulge in blame-game on the government/administration and others, we deliberately ignore our own lack of commitment and responsibility. I will simply call it unwanted illusion. We have actually failed to understand these oft-repeated phrases-Unity is strength and United we stand, divided we fall.
Come on gals, Chalo guys! We have arrived on the horizon of time to act together, foster our community-bonding and let our aspirations flow.
At the outset, youth is the citizen of the country/state in the future. That is to say, the present youth is the future administrator, bureaucrat, businessman, entrepreneur, etc. The state of affairs of the country’s/state’s governance or administration heavily leans on the existing stock of young generation (Youth). In nutshell, young generation implies dynamic force, on whose shoulders lay the progress and development of the country/ state.
As of Arunachalee youth, we are also aspiring, energetic, enthusiastic, hard-working, optimistic and also hungry for achieving and acquiring success in every walk of life. Really, we are very talented and possess immense potentials. We also deserve to climb-up the ladder/staircase of success. Evidently, students are cracking national level competitive exams like IIT-JEE, PMT, CAT, to name a few, and accordingly getting admission in prestigious institutions such as IITs, IIMs, AIIMS, etc. Besides, many students are opting for professional courses like Hotel Management, Tourism& Aviation management, Fashion designing, Mass communication, and so on, eyeing career in private sectors/companies.
Youth (educated, uneducated & unemployed alike) are, no longer, desperately seeking govt. jobs; rather we now need/demand for good opportunities, proper infrastructural development and fair-play in administration and corruption-free governance. We are enlightened generations. We care and love our rights, opportunities, privileges and concessions. We can’t simply sit idly any longer. We also want to play our part in the fate of our state, Arunachal. This is the overwhelming feeling of modern-day, enlightened youth of Arunachal.
Unfortunately, despite this positive change in the outlook to life among Arunachalee youth, one alien element has also seeped into our blood, i.e. we have become excessively individualistic in our approach. We are particularly one-sided in our approach. We care for our rights and benefits more, less or almost negligible for our duties and responsibilities towards the society. This individualistic approach pulls us away from contributing our share of gratitude to our society.
Unnecessarily, many of our youth are indulging too much in politics, and many student leaders are charged with political-ambitions. Yes, our youth need to take up roles and responsibilities in the realm of politics, but it should be a handicap for them to explore and eventually realize their dreams and aspirations. Very often, politics is serving as breeding ground for antagonistic attitudes for each other. I don’t mean to say that politics is bad all-in-all, but politics generally is considered an odd job, which necessarily involves manipulations, dishonesty and corruptions at each and every turn & twist. In the context of our state, politics has been a battle ground for hatred, revenge and political hegemony. Besides, factionalism & tribism steadily dominate our mind, and drag us towards religious/cultural fanaticism. Therefore, I genuinely ponder with wonder about the integrity of our student leaders too.
I’m frankly not well-versed with the intricacies of our rituals, but I believe our customary practices are the consequences of series of experiences accumulated through the ages. However, Fake-sympathizers of our cultural identity only know too well to exploit our sentiments and emotions because of our ignorance, simple and straight-forward nature, and recent addition to our characteristic traits, i.e. self-centric life and individualism.
Similarly, Western-enlightened section of our society would prefer to believe that customary practices are laden with superstitions and out-dated assumptions. They, in their race towards future, embrace imported life all too delightfully without even a momentary thought about its long-term impact on our own walks of life.
Obviously, due to our internal tussles and inter-tribe uneasiness, we are, on one hand, pulling ourselves down, and on the other, giving ample and congenial chances to others (outsiders) for their growth & establishment, which they are well-adept at, through blackmail and exploitation of our sentiments and emotions by interpreting ambiguous identity for us, more to benefit themselves than to truly uplift us and make life better for us.
Consequently, our youthful or energetic mind is colonized by ambiguity and negativity. Hopelessness and lack of desire for putting one’s contribution in the progress of our state further eclipse any trace of shine among our youth.
In addition, majority of us have this deep-seated misconception that we can’t do anything worthwhile individually. While we prefer to indulge in blame-game on the government/administration and others, we deliberately ignore our own lack of commitment and responsibility. I will simply call it unwanted illusion. We have actually failed to understand these oft-repeated phrases-Unity is strength and United we stand, divided we fall.
Come on gals, Chalo guys! We have arrived on the horizon of time to act together, foster our community-bonding and let our aspirations flow.
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