This message is not intended to offend anyone's sentiments, it is but a humble appeal for realization.
“A good education is like a savings account; the more you put into it, the richer you are.”

The idea is to inspire my young friends, to encourage them to invest their time wisely in pursuit of activities that would enhance the scope of their academic and professional achievements brilliantly.
Fight that irresistible tendency to question authority for the sake of questioning. But do it by all means if you feel there is injustice.

My observation is that the technology, information overkill and financial opportunities…all have made our youth a bit arrogant and careless.
When we were small, we really enjoyed the outstanding benefits of the joint family system with many elders to support us emotionally and many children from family to share the wonderful process of learning to grow up.
Today’s Youth are fascinated at the pace and ease of communications and expression, that they can establish acquaintances with so many People instantly all across the World. But this acquaintance through gadgets and social networking, unfortunately is scratching the transient shallow layers of modernity and thinking process. Mostly the quality of friendships are suspect.
The Youth feel that their Parents are pressurising them for no reason or picking upon them deliberately , not realizing that their Parents are desperately seeking the liberation of their Children

No Parent would wish that their Children grow up in a Society where they are not able to take care of their responsibilities efficiently.

It is normal that the Youth require to communicate and keep in contact with each other, exchange ideas, keep abreast of the time, be aware, be knowledgeable; however the reality is that when needing to Produce tangible results in a real life task, the Internet Chats and the Knowledge accumulated in the chat rooms will be of no help. Emancipation will not come from pubs.


There is never a short cut. Allot a certain amount of time each and every day by preparing a check list / a fact sheet of the progress made; to prepare a Road and Mind Map for future.
I wonder why there is not enough quality reading among the new youth. Mills & Boon and James Hadley Chase are killers(of time).There is so much of meaningful stuff to read that if we start today and go at it non stop till our death, we will not cover 0.5 % of the available knowledge and unfortunately we have only one life.
If we read the right things, I can assure you we do not need the fancy dressed GODS. The ethics , morality, love, realization.. everything will come to you without murky religions and fancy Gods.



Students need to extend respect to teachers and elders, parents and the family, in consonance with our cultural norms and traditions. Young professionals need to look upto their seniors with independent reverence. (Sounds terribly old fashioned? But true)
It is important to respect others’ faiths and beliefs in the religious, cultural and social identities and to different schools of thought .
To promote appropriate standards of ethical conduct in individual and social life, to maintain honesty and integrity of character and be committed to fight against all forms of corruption, social evils and practices , younger people need to take initiative.
Most youngsters whom I meet are fraught with anxiety over their conflicting image. They have a desire to uphold their Indian traditions, while similarly attempting to keep up with the West. What is important is to have a self image that salutes value.

The young generation is a rather loud generation; they want everything instantly—instant coffee, instant money, instant fame. Ofcourse they are smart, with access to lot more information. They have foreknowledge of things which we had to learn the hard way. Perhaps that gives them a know-it-all attitude and a tinge of arrogance.
There is much more information but very little processing and analysis. There is much more knowledge but little wisdom. Ambition takes over conscience.
You all have a responsibility to contribute to sectoral, family and self development and to promote social and inter-generation understanding and gender equality .
You have a responsibility to protect the sanctity of the idea of family and the free thinking rational human spirit. Those who are already doing it are the enlightened ones and those who don’t can start today.
Make life a promise to give ….and take…..

Jayanthram