What is influencing our younger generations?

Today Sachin Tendulkar became the first batsman to score a double hundred in a one-day international. We all know how talented he is and and how passionate Indians are about the cricket game. Not only that, Indians are passionate about the bollywood movies too, probably because these are the only major source of entertainment for the common man. But nobody or very few of us remember that we had our Indian budget for 2010-11 being presented on the same day with ODI matches. Young generations are tech-savvy and they follow all the celebrities on Twitter and our old generation follow them on TV channels. At work people check their emails, messenger and Tweets on internet/phone may be 10 times a day and in doing so they loose half of the productivity of producing quality work. Not only this, people talk through emails and messenger even if that person is sitting right in the next cubicle. My point is that, If Indians put half the energy or be half passionate about science and technology, of What they are about the movies and Cricket, then our productivity will increase and India would be a very different country which will put us to advantage over the other developing nations. I am not against our bollywood movies or games or staying connected with friends but I want to emphasize to all of you that, We all need to wake up and do the right thing and put limit to such things.

Another news which amazes me is
Shiv Sena's Mumbai Marathi Manus

Mumbai belongs to Maharashtra and Marathi people, Thackeray maintained and added that "If anyone is going to murder this truth, he will have to face weapons of Maharashtra".

I have seen this headline news on every newspaper now. To tell you frankly, I am sick and tired of the politics that is thriving in India.

No doubt India is a fascinating country and Indian Population is poly-genetic and there is an amazing amalgamation of various races and cultures where people of many different communities and religions live together in unity. But is this diverse nature of India making a positive or negative impact? Politicians are using this difference in culture as a weapon to play dirty politics. How can one fall prey to such attacks made by politicians? How can one agree to their actions? Don't we have the mind of our own to choose the right and the wrong? Is the judgment power of people have been so obscured that we are blindly following or leaded by certain corrupt minds?

India is for all Indians and people have a right to go anywhere. I am really not interested in what Bal Thackeray or Raj Thackeray have to say. Frankly, I am interested in one concept that India belongs to Indians and every part of India belongs to every Indian. Everyone knows the fact, that during the 26/11 attacks in Mumbai , men in the NSG were from Bihar, UP, Gujarat, Himachal Pradesh and Maharashtra. At that time Shiv Sena did not say that those from Bihar and UP should be taken out. India has to move forward and all have to be taken forward. Very few educated people vote and politicians take advantage of such situations, they reach to poor, uneducated people in the slums/rural areas and make false promises to them to lure them and get them to vote. If we don't make the right choice now, how can we expect the right things happening for our country in future.

This is crucial time for us Indians to step up and make a assertive move towards future. We have to explore and focus on new green technologies. I want my child to have true/positive influence about our culture, values, science and technology and not the bull-sh*t carp (Sorry to use such words) of politics and movies because they are our future.

Manisha.