the spirit of yuva..........

maniratnam again proved that he is one of the finest director in india after making YUVA.It is a very risky business making such films which do not appeal to masses who are really crazy about "happy family" melodrama which was started by sooraj barjatya and now continued by karan johar.
yuva was quite straight forward and showed diffrent shades of the youth in india.maniratnam has dealt the politics in campus very efficiently.he has also pointed towards the involment of youth in politics.
Its a pity that in reality very few college going persons take interest in politics which is an integral part of our democracy.It is true that campus politics has also ruined the education system in some universities.allahabad universities is a good example for this.universities which used to produce lot of IAS officers some 20 yrs. ago has not been able to produce a single IAS in some last 5 to 10 yrs.this is the case in most of the universities where education has been mixed with politics.student leader in such universities have become puppets in the hands of certain poltical leaders who use them to campaign for their party thus gaining a lot of student support.
election for student leader has really changed into a war betwen diffrent political parties which tends to ruin the whole educational system.although some students dont take interst in these sort of things (they call it-"dirty politics") but in some way or the other they are affected by this ."keeping quiet is not the solution"- was depicted in the movie yuva.
rather i would say that movie has shown what could youth do in politics which is still far ahead and will require a lot of hard work.with most of the youth trying to be the genX(a term which was used in US for the rebellious youth against the constraints of the class society) it is quite difficult to realise such a dream which was made into motion picture in the form of "yuva".today`s youth has lost its interest in the present democratic system(without any reason) which can be inferred from the no. of voters in the age group of 18-25 yrs.
with most of us having a dream of going to US for the sole purpose of making money ,much of the responsibility of the future of politics of india has come on the youth who come from the less educated background.
politics is a very important factor which decides the future course of the nation.just taking for granted "that politics is bad" does not seem reasonable.politics affects both public and proffessional life of people.we cannot blame our present leaders for their inefficiency but democracy cannot help if there are no good leaders.then the only option is to choose from the good among the worst.whom do you think is good among mulayam singh yadav,mayawati and kalyan singh?therefore the elections are not fought on the basis of the development but on the basis of the cast(as mentioned in the comment by girish) .how could you expect a person to fight elections on the basis of development when he has been into casts system and get benifited as the people who vote are also a part of this cast system.this is where the role of the so-called "educated class" comes in the picture and we form the part of this class.if we cannot give leaders we should atleast give substantial no. of voters who can force the present leaders to work according to us.
that doesnt mean that we all should involve in politics (or rather generally politics involve us) and ruin our education but use it as a tool to make our society better and healthier.
today we talk about movies,rock stars,mobile,fashion etc but we laugh when someone talks about politics.
rather a more responsible behaviour has to be adopted.

arun shourie...

Today there was a lecture by mr. Arun shourie-former disinvestment minister.CLT was housefull and everybody was eager to know his thoughts on politics and other related issues for which he is known.lecture was good,everybody liked it and even laughed at some of his comments on "Laloo prasad yadav".
his brilliance as a speaker and his confidence was reflected on all topics he discussed.But the idea remained the same which generally every minister tries to do-"blame each other".although he talked about the deficiencies in the present bureaucratic system but never reflected the possible solutions.but this thing is not totally true.it is the IAS and other state level officers which are working hard to make India a better place.we cannot blame the whole community due to some handful of corrupted officers in our system.UPSC is not a fool to let enter some idiots into the administration.we should not forget that some of those officers are IITians also.
Coming back to his lecture.He did gave some good words like we as a professional can give something to our nation by taking some issues of public interest although quite difficult but not impossible(with most of doing a job of 9 to 9:) ).
Recently an article in frontline by a former IAS officer put forward some points which might help ministers and officers to do a better job.he just asked government and its employees to lead a life which is not insulated from the general public.generally u will see some bodyguards roaming around some ministers and bueraucrats.this doesnt mean they dont need any security but a lot better interaction with general public has to be there which will really make them feel the problems faced by common man and they might come up with some solutions.when an IAS officer can bring white revolution in bihar(As told by Mr. shourie) he can do a lot more things.he holds the key to the administration and to criticise him without any reason is not fair.
in his lecture he seemed to be biased towards "india shining" agenda of BJP.he enumerated certain nos.-GDP,foreign exchange etc.But when the question of development of villages came he argued that everything cannot be solved.Well i think he has forgotten the results of lok sabha elections.
most of us have a very funny image of laloo prasad yadav.he is the part of every humour i politics may be due to his behaviour or due to his english speaking capabilities with a bihari accent.He took a bold step by probing godhara case again which some ministers termed as "politically motivated".may be true.in his 15 yrs of rule in bihar he has almost neglected the development of bihar in terms of infrastructure.but we forget that under his rule he has done a lot for dalits and other backward classes which have suffered a long history of suppression and hate.with BJP going for most of the upper cast hindu votes(who still believe in cast system) how could u expect other backward classes to vote for BJP.this what quite clear in the lok sabha elections.As a railway minister he introduced srikhand,lassi.mattha,kulhards in railway plateforms and in trains thus giving encouragement to local industries and 40%poor people who still survive on these traditional work.
this blog might look boring to you but by this blog i just want to convey "think before criticising".