Mumbai mirror today gives accounts of few interviews of some youngsters on on-going land dispute at Ayodhya.
One person says, on asking what was demolished at the site in Ayodhya, "I think its a bridge which was demolished”. There were other questions as well and the answers were equally hilarious. One person claims that Lal Krishna Advani was a prime minister when the demolition happened. Another says it was Manmohan Singh.
Supposedly, the article (mind you, it is on today’s cover page in Mumbai mirror), was trying to reflect that the youngsters do not care about temple / mosque dispute anymore. But what it really exposed was a horrible lack of general knowledge among youngsters in this country in general and in Mumbai in particular. I was stumped seeing those answers on the front page.
Now, not caring for this dispute or having a point of view that it's all useless to fight for a temple or a mosque in today's world is all fine. But there is a subtle difference between ignorance and "I don't care attitude". Will our youngsters be a little more informed please? Or are we to take it that youngsters do not have any sense of involvement with what's happening in the country and society. If we are so ignorant about the recent history then what to expect when it comes to pre independence history (which paved the way for modern India).
2 comments:
It is my stong believe that youngesters do have bookish knowledge only.As far as general knowledge is concerns you have already commented and for me there is nothing to add.But with all said and done this not a desired state of affairs.
As a matter of fact youngesters do not consider themself lacking on this front and we have to make them realise that there is stll lot of scope of improvement.
General Knowledge is not so general and common sense is not so common
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