My Dream and My Destiny....
Born in a so called well educated Brahmin Family in the most conserved part of the country called "South India" and raised in the same place, a number of questions started appearing in my mind, especially when I stared traveling alone. Why did Tamilnadu oppose Hindi? Why are some people called Brahmins and why do we have to wear a thread around? Why is there are great divide amongst the people of India like North and South? Why is there a decline in our cultural values? Are our cultural practices really stupid and meaning less? Not just these, but there were so many questions inside my head. Talking to so many people on my journey of life and observing some from far and some from a very closely distance, I somehow was able to decipher one thing and that was - Lack of a feeling that connected people without a classification except for the tagline of being an Indian. The politicians of today are those Indians who thoroughly learned the divide and rule from the Colonial powers. Right from the days of Gandhiji, people just blindly followed a leader who spoke well and nothing else mattered. This was my realisation. No wonder we are still being ruled by the Gandhi Dynasty, the Karunanidhi Dynasty and so many dynasties in the other regional politics, even after so many years of being a REPUBLIC and INDEPENDENT democracy, which is also the world's largest. All this thinking made me feel ashamed and there was one conclusion that I drew up in mind as young as I was 15 years old. In order to bring about the change, people must be pulled into politics, people must be bombarded with questions, various angles of thoughts must emerge and a final understanding and proper dealing of the problems in hand would only then emerge. This thought of mine did not stop there. I tried pulling some elders but my parents were against anything that was my own thought and they only wanted me to follow their commands in anything and everything, just like a robot. If I had my opinion to make in any issue, they would then blackmail me of withdrawing their financial support and all that... I tried taking the help of some of my friends' parents who were nice to me but eventually they did not show interest in this little "CHILD's" playful thoughts. But there is no point in conceiving an idea if that is not realised and only for that reason, I am calling all of you to NBSS. Please ask all the youth to join with us, together, we can bring about a lot of changes. We can do anything and everything and we can do that only if we understand what is really happening around us.
JAI HIND!
Let Patriotism be the one thing that divides the Indians from rest of the world and unite us all together!
Yours Truly,
Deepak Iyer
