SENTIENT
OF THE DANGER AND CLAMOURING YOUTHS
– DHILEEPAN PAKUTHARIVU
Dr. Ambedkar Govt. Law College, Chennai
Problems
cannot be solved by the same minds that created them. – Albert Einstein
Rohit
Vemula’s suicide has been creating a situation of hue and cry among the
students which evident that the prevailing grave situation in the universities
and colleges of our nation. Various student organisations are still demanding
for the ouster of the concerned authorities and it is irrefragable for the
process of Justice to be served. Even at this pathetic state the diabolical
utterances of the hon’ble ministers and members of executive positions are the
reason that made the situation very unpleasant.
Succeeding
this miserable moment, several suicides (In Thamizhnaadu) committed by students
from different colleges for different reasons. Three girl students penned a
letter and committed suicide due to exorbitant college fee collected from them.
The deceased girls had been identified as second year students, V Priyanka, T
Monisha and E Saranya. Also, a girl named Shanmuga preetha at Anna University
in Chennai died after she fell off the second floor of her hostel on the
varsity campus. Everywhere there was a sudden outbreak of protest by the
student community which turns into a mass movement.
This kind of mass agitation against the
institutionalised communalism and capitalism proved the social consciousness
that still prevailing among the youths of the nation. Therefore, it is high
time that the government woke up from its slumber on this burning issue to take
action urgently to instil confidence among the peace-loving and non violent
student community to pursue their studies peacefully. Unfortunately the top
level officials and executives have been all along with hand-in-glove with the
culprits behind these issues.
Back in 1965, when the 15-year
timeframe to make Hindi the only official language was about to expire, Thamizhnaadu
again led agitations. The students of that time are the real veterans of those
agitations. Imposition of Hindi was a part of the narrative of the
Aryan-Dravidian divide. The then prime minister, Lal Bahadur Shastri assured
that English would continue as the second official language as long as
non-Hindi-speaking people wanted it, to quell the protests.
Political commentators argue that years
of agitations against Hindi have clearly had an impact on the psyche of the
people of Thamizhnaadu. Likewise, the student agitations for the genocides of
innocent thamizh’s of Thamizheelam was evident for the social consciousness of
the young minds. Even the high decibel Political Rhetoric’s cannot invade the
youths at that time of agitations. Now, it is the time to move for the
pragmatic solutions.
The youths of today are more luminous
than the previous generations. The advancement of science and technology of
this century made them to gain virtue. They are well aware that the dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate
to the stormy present. Youth’s of today are not ready to go with this
rotted system anymore and they are getting ready to overthrow it. So, never
doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed youths can change the world.
Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
(Published on - RALLY An AICUF Publication, February 2016 Vol.93 No.09
Edition on the Topic 'Youth for Social Change')
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