Our future will be what we choose to make it as we stand on the threshold of the new millennium. Today with our scamster leaders taking us for a ride it is hard to imagine that this is the land of the Gita and Upanishads, of Buddha, Gandhi or Vivekananda. India will land in disaster if we remain passive and allow our destiny to evolve by the dynamics of capitalism, consumerism, corruption and greed. It is the youth that represent our future and I have great faith in them.
Youth is synonymous with newness, hope, promise, energy and dynamism.
Let us believe in the possibilities they hold and nurture them with high ideals rather than insult their intelligence by subjecting them to the culture of cheap entertainment and vulgar advertising. The need of the day is a sound education system. Primary education must become universal and be given in the child's mother tongue and in the language of his or her cultural community. I personally am not in favour of English medium schools. In the era of globalization English is important for obvious professional reasons but may be taught at later stages.