Competition is tough

Young Bites. Dated: 7/24/2017 12:46:03 PM

Students should always be focusing on their rights but instead, they are manipulated by politicians of all parties and fight the fights of their political masters. Indian politics is a dirty reality. Do we want this dirt to pile up in our haloed educational institutions? The youth is a free bird and can choose what it wants to be. Students are supposed to be a clean slate and take whatever path they fancy. Sometimes this choice is not made even after the completion of the education process. It’s a journey to discover who you really are. This also brings us to a larger question of why all our students face so much of political pressure in the first place instead of focusing on education, actual philosophical debate, their dreams and their unfolding futures. However, when you become part of a student body you are immediately straight jacketed. You are forced to adopt an identity you may not be comfortable with. After that, you will be defined by that label. It will guide your actions and ideology. That is extremely unhealthy for an impressionable developing mind. What about the right not to practise politics? Most students want to stay apolitical but they find it difficult to do so and they are sucked into politics whether they like it or not. They find politicking students more powerful. They may be disturbed by all the agitations around them but they are absolutely powerless. The silent majority of students who just want to focus on their education and career are hijacked by the political minority who call the shots. It’s great for few of the students (less than one per cent) ending up as career politicians. But what about the remaining 99 per cent who get a raw deal? Student politics in the 1970s was different. Life was more slow-paced and leisurely. Students could still find time for both politics and studies. In 2016, that has radically changed. Academic pressure is more. The pressure of finding jobs can be crushing. It’s the intense 24X7 internet age. Even without politics, the load can be back-breaking. Add politicians with their agendas bringing in their agitations and you really have an unmanageable pressure cooker situation. Students must be left free to just focus on their studies and careers with absolutely no other distractions. In most education institutions in the world, violence is discouraged and those indulging it are immediately thrown out. That is not the case in India. If you indulge in violence on the goading of your political masters, you know they will save you when you are in trouble.

 

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