HYPE CANNOT SURVIVE LONG

Mukesh Devrari

The situation in this country has reached to such a level that even a beast would revolt, but still every individual is tolerating all the hardships at his own level. It is a miracle why bomb blasts are not happening in our country, why yet there is no civil war in our cities and why Maoist rebels are not getting support of youngsters?  

Just take a look at the despair and hopelessness spreading all around. Every year millions of youngsters pass out from thousands of colleges based in our cities and country sides. Each one of them carries a degree in their hands, but don’t have job. 

In states like Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and Jharkhand whenever government notifies even ten vacant posts of clerk, generally hundred thousand applications turn up. On the day of the examination government runs special trains to cities like Patna and Ranchi, so that these job aspirants could come and appear in exams and return without posing a threat to law and order in the cities. In the army recruitment rallies so many boys turn up that if they become uncontrollable, they can burn this entire country in hours.

Where are the jobs for all these youngsters? Those who privatized education sector in India and helped thousands of shady private colleges and universities to come into existence overnight are arguing today that most of our students who pass out from our higher educational institutions are not employable in any job. According to their strange logic our engineering students know nothing about engineering, their degrees are useless. Those who have studied arts and humanities, representatives of market forces don’t even consider them educated. Now the government is telling distressed and perplexed population of this country which is reeling under severe economic crisis, that there are no jobs.  

The emperors emerged out of our much talked about and over hyped democracy, generated this new system. Now the people are being appointed in jobs on contract. At the lower level even the government is appointing employees through the third party private agencies. Government pays money to private agencies, then that agency recruits people and sends them to work in government offices. In the new system government has no legal liability towards these employees as it has not provided any employment to them directly. According to the business logic it has two benefits. Government can have an employee in three thousand which otherwise would have cost them twenty thousand rupees per month. Concept of job for a life no more exists for new generation.  

In the state of Jharkhand, a tribal leader after coming to the power started a Chief Minister Meal scheme. Many kitchens were established by the government, where anybody could have lunch or dinner at a very nominal price. Now it is being said that government does not have money to continue the scheme. It is being closed down. In this country, every year millions of rupees are being spent in protecting fake Gandhi’s. Government has no dearth of fund for that, but it does not have money to provide basic meal to thousands of poor and hapless people.   

All the bureaucrats and politicians want huge salaries. They want all the wealth and luxury for themselves and their families. According to their logic, people who are working at the lower level do not have right to a earn living with dignity. They have to give a test of their efficiency and abilities every day. Officers and bureaucrats need stability, but not the people who are working at lower positions. Poor are not human beings, they are the beasts in human bodies.

The world was divided into the classes, it is still divided into the classes and it will remain divided into the classes in the foreseeable future too. All the other differences are weak in their origin and structure. The solution lies only in violence and gun. If the former view of Marx is true, then his later view should also be true. The youngsters in this country are made of clay. Not blood, but Coca Cola is running in their veins, which is the greatest feat of the globalization so far. 

If Narendra Modi can spend fifteen thousand crores for winning election. If Ambani can spend thousands of crores to build his Bungalow ‘Antilla’. If Priyanka Gandhi’s husband Robert Vadra can convert three lakh into three hundred crores in weeks. If only one man can live in huge Presidential palace in Delhi. If Vijay Mallya can own a personal Yacht by selling liquor. Then, why can’t you and I have a petty job to earn ten or fifteen thousand rupees per month, so that we could live our life peacefully with dignity.

I was a journalist in the Dehradun edition of Dainik Jagran (Daily Newspaper). My salary was around four-five thousand rupees per month. I was 20-22 year old at that time. I did not have the basic wisdom back then, neither do I have it today. Everybody says it, so I have accepted it. Whole day I used to roam around like an idiot in the city for collecting news. I had to reach office at nine in the morning. After finishing day’s work at nine at night, I had to take permission from city in-charge before leaving office. He was a strange man. Neither, he used to say ‘yes’ nor ‘no’ for hours. He was a good man. What was the reason behind his strange behavior, I don’t know even today.    

I went to his house when his father passed away. He was crying. He was telling me he got the job of Hindi teacher in government school, but he chose to work in newspaper as a journalist. The result was that just before the death, his father himself ordered his own portrait, which was garlanded and every one was grieving in front of it.

French psychologist Jaques Lacan says the mad man who thinks he is a king is no more mad then the king who thinks he is king. Till the moment each one of us will fight for oneself only, condition will be deteriorate day by day.  

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