I was shocked to hear a principal of a popular school in chennai lament at the deprived conditions of today’s lower income youths.
He told me that many boys after completing their 12th,are targeted by local politicians ( by politicians i mean the corrupt,money minded ones). These youngsters who belong to very low income group with no family support fall prey to the valueless, fancy ideas and corrupted activities of the politicians.
When a guy dose not finds a good job or a nice college degree (just after their school education) these politicians approach them and give them pocket money and so develops their evil friendship.
In few days these boys are given visiting cards that holds their name and their supporting political party! so now on they belong to that party... obviously these young men don’t even know what they are into. The boys are happy now, for they get daily around 150 to 200 rupees! and they are supported by a political party,they can do anything now.
But in reality, these boys are used by the politicians for criminal activities, at times they are the scape goats when some one in the party dose a crime - these young men are ready to accept the crime and go to prison. Obviously these young minds will be addicted to all social evils like drugs,murder, etc.
And suddenly a college goer turns into a antisocial element.
This is a true fact and is happening to many high school kids at every nook and corner of India, and these young men keep loosing their future to one political party or another.
These politicians who are supposed to work for the welfare of these young men instead they seem to be the ones who are killing their future.
Since they do not have any family values,economic independence or healthy social outlook , the young men don’t realize that they are loosing their life.
Few of them realize this fact but it would have been too late.
The principal who spoke to me was almost in tears when he said,you see we teachers are trying our best to make good citizens out of these boys but still even boys with good grades and soft aptitude tend to disgrace themselves and spoil their life by such unethical conduct. There is nothing else to blame other than circumstance.
But i kept thinking is this just circumstantial?