I read a blog that a good friend of mine had put together regarding the youth of India. I respect his opinion about the Indian youth but at the same time I am wondered that he himself is a part of the same youth community which he just criticized in his blog.

Many of us would say that Indian youth is not focused and is misled but at the same time many of us would also agree to the fact that the current youth is also responsible enough to take up the charge of the future.

At the time of Indian Freedom Struggle, not everyone was a part of it. There were many youth who just had nothing to do with the struggle around them. They just enjoyed the life the way it was coming to them. If this would not have been the case, don’t you think we would have had millions of stories of such Bhagat Singh’s and Chandra Shekhar’s.

Why do we always blame the generation X for the way they want to spend their life. Today’s youth is conscious about their career, their lifestyle and their livelihood. I do not see anything wrong about it. It is because of them India is making progress at all time high. Today youth knows its responsibilities and is an active part of the society in socio-economic development.

Today when you sit in a classroom, it does not matter to you if the person sitting next to you is from a lower caste/background. Is it not progress?

Today when Times of India starts a campaign – Teach India, a large part of the youth community becomes a part of it. Don’t they understand their role in the society?

Today when long pending cases are fought inside the court rooms, it is the youth that raises its voice against the criminals and ensures that the criminals are punished. Is it not what we want them to do?

Why is it that just because some portion of the youth is not as responsible as we expect them to be, we blame them?

Today the Indian politics is dominated by the oldies. What is it that we get from them? No youth from a respectable Indian family or a family that does not a have a political background wants to be a part of it. Why? Not because they are not responsible but because our elders have made it a profession and not a service. So if you have to chose a profession you will chose some respectable profession rather going for politics which is at its all time dirty.

Give it a time to think and all of us will realize that we have a responsible Gen X citizen within all of us; it just needs to come out.