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EDITORIAL |
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India is a young country,
thanks to its healthy population growth that ensures a
good age distribution. In India, youth constitutes about
one fifth of total population. According to
international standard, only those between 18 and 25
years are considered to be youth. According to the 2001
census, there were 195 million young people in India.
This figure might go up to 240 million by 2011.
India’s youth will be a resource to this country only if
they are sufficiently educated, economically productive,
politically conscious, morally pure and spiritually
sensitive.
Unfortunately, the pursuit of higher education, even to
the late twenties, is making more and more young people
enter the job market at a later age. This means that our
youth, instead of becoming economically productive for
the nation, are increasingly living off their parents’
resources. This is a cause of concern to any growing
country. We need to encourage our youth to start working
at at earlier age to contribute to nation building.
There are ample opportunities today to study along with
ones work.
Another concern is the lack of young blood in India’s
leadership. More and more young people need to enter
active politics to usher in a new era of governance. It
is heartening to see that there are quite a few young
MPs in the new Indian Parliament. But most of them are
children of stalwart politicians. In spite of this, Ms.
Agatha K. Sangma, India’s youngest MP and Union Minister
at 27 is an inspiration to any young person. At an age
when most urban youth are dependent on their parents,
here is a young woman who is making a mark.
Just as our youth should display such initiative and
productivity, it is important for them to stay morally
pure. Spirituality is not just for older people. The
earlier our children and youth are rooted in the
knowledge of God, the better will their future be. As a
nation, we must seek God and encourage our youth to do
so. We must develop a tendency to encourage a
sensitivity towards what is right in God’s eyes.
Secularism is an attempt to separate state from religion
just as modernism has banish religion to ones private
life away from all public spaces. However, religion and
spirituality are an integral part of our lives. However
much we try to hide religion, our private religious
beliefs will dictate the way we conduct ourselves in our
public lives. Similarly, even if the government has no
religion, the religious convictions of its ministers and
officers will determine the way it functions.
The so-called secular governments of the West are
passing laws that promote ungodly behaviour. For them,
secularism is an attempt to drive away God from their
national lives. The promotion of same-sex marriage,
abortion, etc, show how anti-God a people can become. It
is better to be positively godly than to be anti-God in
the guise of secularism. May our nation and its leaders
encourage our youth to be godly.
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This page is
updated on June 23, 2009 |
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