Now I don't meddle with youngmen of 15-20, for their closing statement, after my each attempt of mentoring them, mostly goes like this :
- " Look uncle, next time don't take 'panga' with young lads ''.
- " Uncle Jee, find people of your age for 'pangay baazi' ".
- " Baba Jee, stay home and do Allah Allah ".
And strangely enough I don't mind as I used to do about a decade ago. I don't even blame them because I realize that there has definitely been a great lapse in their grooming and upbringing both at home and school. I don't think they could be straightened up in colleges.
Despite all the modernised and rather improvised education at Institutions with big names projecting their academic success through heavily-budgetted advertisement campaigns, a great deficiency of manners, etiquette, decency and modesty is clearly observed in many a youth both at undergraduate and graduate levels.
They also lack in self-esteem. Perhaps they don't know the meaning and importance of it.
I've noted that most of these youth don't even know how to handle volatile situations and explode like volcanoes in ordinary matters of confrontation. They don't know how to communicate in these situations instead of reacting to other people's harsh remarks.
Are parents-to-be and young teachers taking note of this ever worsening issue? Would they not dare to accept this challenge so that after a decade or two we could take pride in claiming that at last we have a generation of character?
Hell with high-salaried policy makers and pseudointellectuals !
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