The Youth are a Waste of Time in Modi’s India
Illustration by Gemini AI Narendra Modi shut down about one lakh (100,000) public schools, cut down the funding to school education by 50% and higher education by 33%, and propped up the RSS to open about 40,000 schools. Education is no concern of the Modi government. He asked youngsters more than once to start selling pakoras (fritters) instead of complaining about unemployment. It’s easy to control a nation of pakora-sellers than educated citizens. The glorious ancient civilisation of Bharat did just that with its Brahminical system which not only denied education to the majority of the population but also punished them brutally if they tried to pursue learning. “Don’t waste our time,” the ‘honourable’ chief justice of India told a lawyer who tried to show him a video clip of the violence inflicted on the protesting young students in Delhi by Modi’s police. The youth are a waste of time for India now. H itler’s Germany had the same view. In the 1930s, the Weimar public ed...
