The best way to empower the youth is through enlightenment...

 

The #guru - trying to work as a lighthouse for his disciples

Today i would like to narrate my yesterday’s experience in one of the largest public sector banks of #Bharat. 

As, sometimes, i make many comments, a little loudly ( so that people around me cannot say we are deaf and blind - we have not heard anything - so please think of us as Gandhiji’s bandar - with all the external senses blunted ), maybe sometimes mixed with a little bit of sarcasm, sometimes a bit of scathing remarks, sometimes a bit of lewd words, sometimes a little bit of physical aggressive vulgar gesture (this experimentation i have started recently), just to get a vibe of the modern society of #Bharat- are we really capable of handling different situations with grace, keeping our eyes and ears open to see if there is any validity of the behaviour of any arbitrary guy  in the public domain is at all acceptable norms of behaviour - from all angles - without any conditioned mindset - and if this is not acceptable - then why not - or rather - who am i to decide what is an acceptable behaviour and what is not - or is it okay to judge anybody at all - and in case the person whom we are observing suddenly starts specific behaviour to understand how the observer behaves - then what - are we really capable enough to withstand such a behaviour - and if not - then what should be done?

So i was trying to listen to the various conversations, the young employees of the banks were making - openly - in Bengali (that is okay, that is not at all a problem) , the tone they use, is it friendly, or is it authoritarian, the verbal words they speak out - and i got the feelings that - okay - in general, the atmosphere of a public sector bank is exactly like the core sector of the society - the middle class of the society - unlike a centrally ac, glass building with all security cameras in place - and everyone kind of showing their busyness as a form of business - like the corporate power corridor - foreign bank - maybe like (u guess)...

Next, i asked a lady employee of the bank, is this an everyday norms, that u ladies use so many paper works signing here and there, passing bunch of papers, then verifying with human eyes - just to understand her POV that at the end of the day - when she just goes back to her home - and then if she thinks how she spent the whole day - was it worth - or did she feel empowered - or is there any scope of improvement - or am i capable of asking questions against it - or rather am i feeling that i am an empowered youth to contribute to the growth of the nation - and if not how can i change the system - or chalo yaar - why waste the evening TV serial - let me forget - let me have a cup of garam tea made by my Mom and have dinner and wait for the next day same story - and this way - after the retirement - i won’t really have enough story to enlighten my younger generations - and then i would suggest - yaar - zindgi to bilkul time pass hai - zyada serious hone ka zarrorat nahi hain - and this way train my next generations to spend their lives just as time-pass - doing absolutely bakwas - just as a time pass.

She answered vaguely, yes sir. eta to kortey hobe. na hole cholbe ki kore?

And exactly that kind of answer shocked me.

Why?

Kano eybhabey korte hobe?

Can’t we use the Aadhaar API system to reduce all the paper works  and utilise all these young generations to more creative works - the works of a thinker - and not exactly of a kalur balad - the oilman’s bullock - blinded - purposeless - and obviously thinking - subah kab hogi - and then never got back the answer from the other side.

And I came to a conclusion.

That we need #guru everywhere - for everybody - just to enlighten them to become capable enough to ask the system - not exactly with a zhanda - street fight - but with an uncluttered mind - not exactly showing a trait of an aberrant behaviour - but just as a norms of a society where we encourage constructive debates on any subjects - unlike the previous - gala dawanewali  system - where nobody dared to ask anything against the norms - the authorities - but rather  in a way to improve upon our daily routine and then at the end of the day sleeping on an ordinary cot with hope - that aab sayed subah ho jayegi 

The morning sun will rise again for #bharatmata - and we are here to make it possible

And then enjoy the sweet dream in the deep sleep and go back to the workplace the following day with more vigour and courage and in fact with an attitude -

yaar aaj kuch karke dikhana hai…

Life is not a time pass….