Youth and their Voting mania !!!
‘There’s no point voting…’, ‘nothing will change…’, ‘you can’t always blame the Govt.…’, ‘and we’re the ones who’ll bring the change…
These phrases are familiar among the youth of our country. The youth which are an imperative asset for a nation’s future hold different opinions on the political system of this nation. They are the decision makers of tomorrow and thereby cutting all the barriers they should vote. But the system is such that it is demoralizing to even bond with the ‘distorted’ Indian political system with corruption at its roots.
Underlining the need for changing the image of the "ugly Indian politician", senior BJP leader L. K. Advani recently said that one way of making this possible was by encouraging more young people to join politics. “Seventy percent population of our nation is youth and I have aim for the Indian youth that they should be given chance to come in politics”, was said by Rahul Gandhi while addressing the youth of our country before the 2008 elections.
Instead of these motivating avowals the youth today does not realize the power of its mandate. Having said that, yes, to an extent, political parties might have failed to touch a chord with them at large, but the youth should also be proactive and raise the issues that are important to them. If they come together and put forward their demands or issues, will the parties have the courage to ignore their voice? Rahul Gandhi’s talent hunt and meeting the youth in all parts of the country is an effort to make them a part of change. Tata Tea’s, ‘Jaago Re! One Billion Votes’ is a non-partisan nationwide movement that aims to awaken and enable the citizens of India, especially the youth, to register to vote.
Rather than feeling helpless, defeated and let down by our in-competitive politicians who are doing nothing to protect the civilians and brave security personals against terrorist attacks and bomb blasts the youth should involve with the Indian political system. Instead of being discouraged by the candidates they should use their power of
they should use their power of ignoring the candidates provided by the Indian constitution in 1961. The voters should rather opt for “no vote”. According to the clause 49 O of Indian Constituency, you can simply visit the polling booth and ask the election officer that you don’t want to give vote to any candidate. In that case he will give you one form, which you will have to fill up and submit to the Presiding Officer. If the total number of these types of forms will increase the number of votes which cast in the favor of the winning candidate, then the election of that constituency will automatically be canceled. Hence your vote will not become a waste. Undoubtedly, voting for individual candidates with charisma like Clinton, Obama, or Palin is so much more inspiring than voting for parties. In India, we are denied the opportunity to vote for our mayors, our chief ministers, our governors or our prime ministers. The assertion that corrupt candidates turn us off has made voting something of a convenient copout. Perhaps, we do not have good enough candidates because there are not enough good voters who care enough to cast their votes. Clearly, our change is not going to be led by individual messiahs. But do we believe that one billion voices are powerless? Let's not get trapped into a nirvana fallacy, waiting for perfect conditions before we are willing to play our rightful role in India's political journey.
Turning 18 can become a milestone not just because it allows you a driver's license, but also because it allows you the license to vote. Will the youth lead our one billion voices out of political indifference? This could be the small step towards citizenship and a giant leap for our democracy. Thus the individuals should look beyond themselves and empower others. But to empower others we must be empowered ourselves. And this can be set up by a simple act of voting.
Over With the Shoot Ready to Lauch - THE BET
Often things presumed are the things that create a difference, and even less often people unravel themselves from the ‘chalta hai ‘ attitude and create that difference. Some such people constitute the team of ‘THE BET’. Mocked, was what they were, when they brought their idea to public. Their planned publicities were called ballyhoo, the minds behind the movie tagged imbecile. But on the front, their claim to have enough capital to produce a movie was controverted. But nothing could stop Lohit’s team.
A team of over fifty people worked day in and out and the contingent turned to favour. The corporate team of ‘THE BET’ hit gold, when it cracked a sponsorship worth whopping more than four lakhs rupees. The lamp had finally ignited!
Vex waxed away as the corporate team unturned more stones of success and partners grew to IBIBO, DLF, VIRGIN, REDBULL, and still counting!! With capital in hand, only half of the sceptical barriers were now needed to be broken. The storyline had already undergone several stages of improvisation till then. The story line is an intelligent blend of several realistic scenarios that the world has witnessed recently including the SATYAM and ENRON frauds, while the main backdrop has been inspired from the novel ‘THE BET’ BY Anton Chekov.
The roles have been played by very talented actors including key roles by, Prashant, Mihir, Natasha, Sargun, and Ishita. The story line lays pivoted on a bet between a banker and a lawyer. Bets are a part of everyone’s life but ‘HIS life’ becomes part of a bet that leads to his life imprisonment…and it’s all ‘bout how d scenario changes from “why I am here?” to “now that ‘m here……”.
It’s d story of a person who learns to redesign himself….of how he sees the pain around him now as a opportunity to understand d pain of others..!! He cannot help the contrast between the freedom outside and life confined between four walls !!!!! Pain teaches him that there’s no waiting when time stops. Being one of d most educated convicts, how he changes disaster into a bliss well that’s the bet of his life that’ll prove fatal to THE BET.
Shooting of the movie was something that required not just talent but experience. So the ‘trio connoisseurs’ Mehsum Ali from DCE, Nikhil Parihar from DCE, and Mehul Upadhyay from Ahmedabad, stepped up as the directors of the movie. All of them have only so much experience in direction that they are likely to emerge as the new faces of young directors in new India. Under the mutual obligation of all team members the shooting commenced on 27th of February. The first day of shooting procured in the Red Fort. Things expectedly turned out more scabrous than they seemed, and so 28th was kept off to replan and redeem the lost pace and time. The trio connoisseurs started again on 29th and this there was no looking back and the project steered all the way till end. The shooting lasted 10 days and ended on the 9th. The shooting sites interspersed from the DLF office, Defence colony, Delhi University to DCE, with active copulative partners including renowned brands like
Boggi Milano, Alcott, Sunglasses Hut, Satya poll, Nirulas, The Kabab Factory, Sia, Giovani, Alps , Looks, etc.
In DU the shooting was held in front of the FACULTY AND ART OF COMMERCE under the constant supervision of Nupur Sharma, president, DUSU who has actually been made to play a part in the movie. This has been done in the interest of the students so as to induce to them a moral confidence and pride over the first movie made by college students ever in India. The movie sits on a social site, where the consequences of drinking, smoking have also been discussed. It explains to students how peer pressure may lead to depression in ones life.
THE BET will carry a endeavour forward to our forecoming fachhas , and will surely prove to be a landmark in the history of India, all that remains to be required are the blessings of our learned teachers that will leave no stone unturned to our pathway of success.
