Wednesday, October 04, 2006
The alacrity of childhood… LOST
I wonder about my childhood. It was the same story with every kid on the block at that time. Probably equality was more that time then now. Home was always the second school for me. After coming back from school, outdoor games were my best exercise. There was no option of passing the evening talking on phone for hours or watching cartoon on TV. How could a kid have watched Krishi darshan, serial that use to come on TV in evening during that time? Now when I see the kids of today, I do believe that somehow the world at that time was much better than now. Yes, we have much better facilities now, convenience of anything on a click of a mouse button, but this all is on the cost of our own health. At least we as kids use to fit, attentive, smart, doing everything in the group thus learning group dynamism and the value of friendship. Today after coming back from school kid is either busy in watching television or doing his homework. The whole attitude has change. With the introduction of Play stations and X boxes the life of the kid has got connected wirelessly with the idiot box.
Things have change so much. Time has gone when I use to be so eager on Monday evening to watch Wagle ki duniya or Wednesday evening to watch Chitrahaar or Friday night for the one feature film Doordarshan use to show in a week. Yes, of course whole Sunday morning was mine with Stone Boy, Sigma and Street hawk pulsating my nerves. But that was all my connection with TV. I was more connected with my cricket bat and ball or my Kite or football, mostly outdoor activities.
These days it’s not the same. Do the kids will ever find their interests in the stories that we use to hear from our grand parents against Archies or Tintin or Harry Porter? Then how will they know about past, our culture, and our traditions? Through books, reading by themselves.. That will hardly give them any knowledge.
With the introduction of cable and Satellite Dishes, technologically we have taken a giant step forward but probably this will put an even more adverse effect on Kids.
Oh.. if that is the case parents must not provide with much means and they should take care of it and they should teach them things which are missing. But are they themselves free. With the tradition of nuclear families and mother father both working and the pressure to perform, there performance in home is getting poorer. Result, what we see in West. 14 Yr. Kid coming to school with a gun and shooting his girl friend just because of the reason she was not ready to go for a date. No sooner this will be a similar story in India.
Everyone says the children are the future of a nation. But if those children only start putting glasses since childhood how will they foresee the future. If these children only start putting on weight, who will work out for the prosperity of nation? According to me, for a better future we will have to start working from today. Every one of us, who realise how beautiful our childhood was, how much perfect it was in terms of our own development must try to help, suggest and push every other kid in our society for the same.
It makes me really sad when in the interviews on Independence Day and republic day this Generation X is seen so must negligent about our proud History. Here I recall one of my Discussions with Vice Chancellor of Bremen University. He told me that you Indians have a rich culture, and a beautiful past to boast to the world and hold your head high, and it is one of the important things needed to make a nation “Great”.
It has already started happening in India. This is not the generation about whom Pundit Nehru and Kalam saab have high hopes about. This is not the future they talk about. It is a negligent India with past absconded, future moving to abysmal.
Things have change so much. Time has gone when I use to be so eager on Monday evening to watch Wagle ki duniya or Wednesday evening to watch Chitrahaar or Friday night for the one feature film Doordarshan use to show in a week. Yes, of course whole Sunday morning was mine with Stone Boy, Sigma and Street hawk pulsating my nerves. But that was all my connection with TV. I was more connected with my cricket bat and ball or my Kite or football, mostly outdoor activities.
These days it’s not the same. Do the kids will ever find their interests in the stories that we use to hear from our grand parents against Archies or Tintin or Harry Porter? Then how will they know about past, our culture, and our traditions? Through books, reading by themselves.. That will hardly give them any knowledge.
With the introduction of cable and Satellite Dishes, technologically we have taken a giant step forward but probably this will put an even more adverse effect on Kids.
Oh.. if that is the case parents must not provide with much means and they should take care of it and they should teach them things which are missing. But are they themselves free. With the tradition of nuclear families and mother father both working and the pressure to perform, there performance in home is getting poorer. Result, what we see in West. 14 Yr. Kid coming to school with a gun and shooting his girl friend just because of the reason she was not ready to go for a date. No sooner this will be a similar story in India.
Everyone says the children are the future of a nation. But if those children only start putting glasses since childhood how will they foresee the future. If these children only start putting on weight, who will work out for the prosperity of nation? According to me, for a better future we will have to start working from today. Every one of us, who realise how beautiful our childhood was, how much perfect it was in terms of our own development must try to help, suggest and push every other kid in our society for the same.
It makes me really sad when in the interviews on Independence Day and republic day this Generation X is seen so must negligent about our proud History. Here I recall one of my Discussions with Vice Chancellor of Bremen University. He told me that you Indians have a rich culture, and a beautiful past to boast to the world and hold your head high, and it is one of the important things needed to make a nation “Great”.
It has already started happening in India. This is not the generation about whom Pundit Nehru and Kalam saab have high hopes about. This is not the future they talk about. It is a negligent India with past absconded, future moving to abysmal.
