Perfecting Youth

Author(s): Udayvallabhvijay
Publisher: Samkit Yuvak Mandal

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The current education deals with overtakes and take overs, but gives no spark to light up the sacrificing spirit. The syllabus is filled up with chapters of achievements and information but there is hardly any space left to evaluate sacrifice. As a result, professional skill, managerial art and merely information (wrongly called knowledge) overrules sacrifice.
The role models of today's youth include actors, cricketers, pop singers and the list goes on. Unfortunately people like soldiers or committed policemen find no place in this list. No one values these spirited and committed people who commit themselves to the service of the
country. We associate police with bribe, beer and corruption. But there are likes of Tukaram Ombale who gave up his life just to capture the terrorist Ajmal Kasab alive. Can you recollect any person keeping a picture of this martyr on his wallpaper which is always occupied by the pictures of celebrities.
PERFECTING YOUTH
The youth are well informed of the sequence of several new names and profile of all the IPL players, but has anyone heard the names of Lt. Manoj Pandey, or Captain Vikram Batra and several others who laid down their lives on the border to protect the country.
It's a matter to ponder over who deserves more credit, acknowledgment, media attention and applauds; a
A hard hitting batsman smashes all records in a T-20 game and people go wild. It was Gayle all the way. Around the same time people witnessed the heart throbbing rescue work done by the army men during the Uttarakhand disaster. Who felt like making a poem or shayari and sharing them, praising their high efforts?
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