Generation X may not be as vella as you think!

Talking about Shuddh Desi Romance- I honestly expected more from this movie. This playing hide and seek when it comes to love funda just doesn't appeal to me at all. Either you say yes or you say no. But the movie did get the general indecisiveness that is common with quite a few youth spot-on. Inability to make decision apart, it was a tad disheartening to see that a good number of the youth don't really think about how they want to make their money; all they know for sure is that they want pot loads of it (according to a recent nation wide poll conducted last month). So, just when I was ready to get all judgmental and state that this country is never going to get anywhere if this is how Generation X thinks, that the youth threw up quite a few surprises.

The Times Youth Brigade for starters. Even if just a handful of the original number of applicants actually made it to the final few, the fact that so many youngsters were eager to come forward and do something useful with their time tells me that they may not be as 'I-give-a-damn' as I think. Or maybe as a lot of people think. On RTI Day, it was heartening to see the way so many youngsters actually sat down cross-legged and sprawled on the floors of the many RTI offices spread across the country. Why, you may ask? Because they were there to file RTI's and to get answers to a hell lot of questions. Questions that maybe have popped up in yours and my head, but about which we didn't care enough to do anything about.

And I was wrong if I was living with the assumption that the youth in Kochi only care about drugs, booze and rock n roll. On Monday, when there was a state wide hartal put into effect, a group of youngsters and professionals got together to play good samaritans to tourists and travellers who were otherwise stranded on the roads. With stickers that proudly declared ' Say NO to hartal', theirs were the only vehicles on  otherwise empty streets. And no, they weren't scared about what the cops or other party workers would do. That's because they were mentally ready to take them on.

I've read articles written by tourists who visited India for the first time and said that this country never ceases to surprise them. Just when you think that nothing is well in India and probably will never be, she smiles and pulls out yet another ace from her pack of ready cards. All I can say is that as long as the youth never lose the sight and feel of their conscience, this country is in much safer hands than we imagined earlier. Jai Hind!