Continuous agitations, disruptions in daily work routines, bandhs, traffic blockades, rail rokos, squatting on the roads and railway tracks have become common now days. Living with agitations has become the part of every one’s life in this country especially in the telangana. Along with other sectors of people educational sector is put to lots of sufferings for the last few years owing to political systems’ failure to provide solution of an aggrieved region. Trouble in the region requires a trouble shooter with better grasp and understanding of the problem instead of having prejudicial subjective opinion and understanding. Looking at the things as they are happening it is a fact that a new turn has taken place in the telangana agitation with the wholehearted involvement of; students, people from all sections (sakala janulu /aam admi) of the region. The latest upsurge on the demand for a separate Telangana as the students’/ political party’s agitation turned in to ‘sakala janula samme’ is causing anxiety. Things changed drastically affecting the academic life of the youth/ students. It will certainly tell upon the future with its deleterious effects. This state of agony is worrying every one concerned with education. Politics centred cause of the agitation prolonged over the past over six decades is continuing to be agitating the minds of the academia. It is often said that students form the crux of any nation's future and their force is always invincible. As such insulating them even though they are related to politics is never possible nor feasible. Histories of revolutions reveal that many crucial and long drawn issues were highlighted and ultimately resolved with the students’ participation. Those who are now lamenting on the turn of events taking place are those, who in the past have drawn them (students) on to the streets on flimsy grounds with which they are not even remotely connected.
Is it not a fact that our leaders including the father of the nation Mahatma Gandhi drawn the students from their class rooms to participate in the satyagrahas?. Can we forget how the, then leaders ignored the wise men’s advice about the disastrous effects on the students’ future?. Is it not true that some of the leaders now claiming to be secular, in fact, disturbed the nation and students’ life on issues occurred outside the country connecting them with religion and created communal problems?, Is it not true that many cultural revolutions brought tremendous changes in the world providing solutions to many of the prolonged socio-economic and political problems?.
The aforesaid questions should not be misunderstood to be justifying the participation of students in the agitations. They are not in support of their involvement at the cost of their academic and future life. They are made with anguish and with an agitated mind in the hapless situation to which our academia was presently pushed to. It is true that agitations will end up with some solution when students get involved. But these days, the agenda of the movements and agitations based mostly on political lines not much is happening benefitting the students. This is what is worrying every one. It is quite unfortunate that several thousands of crores of rupees are lost every day as a consequence of innovative methods of agitations witnessed. The sad part of the entire happenings is the absence of any sincere effort on the part of the political leadership of the country to find a solution to the issue. There are many among the; politicians, educationists, business men, professionals, communal outfits etc., indulging in provoking utterances thus are adding fuel to the fire. Vote bank politics with vested interests of the politicians is making the things worse. Student activism is not new to this region. Participation of students in the; pre independence vandemataram movement, earlier spells of Telangana movement, Naxalite movement etc., are the historical facts. The question before us today is how best and how quickly we can restore normalcy to streamline the functioning of our educational system benefitting the students. We need to find alternative effective forms of agitation distancing them from the students’ participation. We need to focus our attention on how quickly and how correctly the issues relating to the students welfare and development are resolved. We are looking for; who, when and how? will resolve the issue and put the academic world on right track. All eyes are on the great lady to provide solution. She is helpless as the people who consented to accept her command in fact backed out pushing the issue into the present turbulent state. Every one is expressing hypocritically their concern and appealing to end the agitation without proper solution. The appeals are being made by the dubious people belonging to different outfits of; caste, communities, politics, industry, commerce etc. How can we trust the sincerity of such people?
It is time for every one to put efforts shunning the blame culture with all commitment to solve the issue in a pragmatic manner, instead of indulging in; provocative utterances like; ‘two eye’ and ‘two leg’ theories or by making appeals in the name of religious functions/pilgrimages etc. We need to come out openly with pure heart to find just solution to the issue. The students need to be given ‘holiday from the agitations’ and sent to their learning centres to pursue their academic studies in peace. The entire society will have to rise to the occasion and help building confidence in our student youth. A major responsibility falls on the students as they play a vital role in shaping the future for themselves specifically and the country at large. They need to be alert to the situation and insulate themselves from exploiting politicians and others. They must come up with an agenda of their own and must not be driven by leaders with vested interest and crooked motives. It is not that easy to get the students back in to the academic groove, when the atmosphere around is aggressive. Restoring normalcy should be our high priority agenda. Appreciating the fact that agitations lead to brain drain and wastage of precious productive man hours and state finances we need to find an alternative to exempt educational institutions from agitations so that the normal flow of teaching is not hampered. We pray god to usher his blessings on the people to provide courage and confidence to stall further damage to the academia. The question before the agitated academia is whether god (s) are in a position to come to their rescue as they are also the victims of the agitation. The big Question before us ; “ Is there any body who can save us?” from the present turmoil, if so, who, when and how?. Let us explore the answer.
Is it not a fact that our leaders including the father of the nation Mahatma Gandhi drawn the students from their class rooms to participate in the satyagrahas?. Can we forget how the, then leaders ignored the wise men’s advice about the disastrous effects on the students’ future?. Is it not true that some of the leaders now claiming to be secular, in fact, disturbed the nation and students’ life on issues occurred outside the country connecting them with religion and created communal problems?, Is it not true that many cultural revolutions brought tremendous changes in the world providing solutions to many of the prolonged socio-economic and political problems?.
The aforesaid questions should not be misunderstood to be justifying the participation of students in the agitations. They are not in support of their involvement at the cost of their academic and future life. They are made with anguish and with an agitated mind in the hapless situation to which our academia was presently pushed to. It is true that agitations will end up with some solution when students get involved. But these days, the agenda of the movements and agitations based mostly on political lines not much is happening benefitting the students. This is what is worrying every one. It is quite unfortunate that several thousands of crores of rupees are lost every day as a consequence of innovative methods of agitations witnessed. The sad part of the entire happenings is the absence of any sincere effort on the part of the political leadership of the country to find a solution to the issue. There are many among the; politicians, educationists, business men, professionals, communal outfits etc., indulging in provoking utterances thus are adding fuel to the fire. Vote bank politics with vested interests of the politicians is making the things worse. Student activism is not new to this region. Participation of students in the; pre independence vandemataram movement, earlier spells of Telangana movement, Naxalite movement etc., are the historical facts. The question before us today is how best and how quickly we can restore normalcy to streamline the functioning of our educational system benefitting the students. We need to find alternative effective forms of agitation distancing them from the students’ participation. We need to focus our attention on how quickly and how correctly the issues relating to the students welfare and development are resolved. We are looking for; who, when and how? will resolve the issue and put the academic world on right track. All eyes are on the great lady to provide solution. She is helpless as the people who consented to accept her command in fact backed out pushing the issue into the present turbulent state. Every one is expressing hypocritically their concern and appealing to end the agitation without proper solution. The appeals are being made by the dubious people belonging to different outfits of; caste, communities, politics, industry, commerce etc. How can we trust the sincerity of such people?
It is time for every one to put efforts shunning the blame culture with all commitment to solve the issue in a pragmatic manner, instead of indulging in; provocative utterances like; ‘two eye’ and ‘two leg’ theories or by making appeals in the name of religious functions/pilgrimages etc. We need to come out openly with pure heart to find just solution to the issue. The students need to be given ‘holiday from the agitations’ and sent to their learning centres to pursue their academic studies in peace. The entire society will have to rise to the occasion and help building confidence in our student youth. A major responsibility falls on the students as they play a vital role in shaping the future for themselves specifically and the country at large. They need to be alert to the situation and insulate themselves from exploiting politicians and others. They must come up with an agenda of their own and must not be driven by leaders with vested interest and crooked motives. It is not that easy to get the students back in to the academic groove, when the atmosphere around is aggressive. Restoring normalcy should be our high priority agenda. Appreciating the fact that agitations lead to brain drain and wastage of precious productive man hours and state finances we need to find an alternative to exempt educational institutions from agitations so that the normal flow of teaching is not hampered. We pray god to usher his blessings on the people to provide courage and confidence to stall further damage to the academia. The question before the agitated academia is whether god (s) are in a position to come to their rescue as they are also the victims of the agitation. The big Question before us ; “ Is there any body who can save us?” from the present turmoil, if so, who, when and how?. Let us explore the answer.
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