The most important question to be asked now is 'What do I intend to achieve through this blog?'
There have been countless youth movements in the past. They have aspired to change the world through their speeches and actions. The Naxalites too were a product of such thinking among college students. However, most of them have met with abject failure, and some of them have met with only limited success. What was the reason for this failure?
They wanted to change things by attacking the prevalent political system and beauracracy. They wanted to change things by carrying out protest rallies against powerful politicians. The Naxalites, Prabhakaran's aides, etc even went to the extent of wielding weapons to engage the army in war. The inherent fault in their mode of action was that they did not realise that things would not change until the people of the cuntry changed. And such change in people's thinking cannot be brought about by carrying protest marches or burning buildings.
Let me give you an example. Everyday, someone or the other speaks about the need to end corruption. Everyone who listens comments on the impracticality of such gibberish, and then continues to bribe the government official to cut his income tax or the traffic policeman to let his car off. 'Everyone' includes me. We have a natural resistance to change in our thinking and view of the world. We think that if we stop bribing, someone else will continue to bribe, and then go on to gain an unfair advantage over him. Moreover, the poeople who carry out the protest or rally soon start bribing too!!!! Heartbreaking disillusionment...
But what if everybody is made to feel important- like the country depends on them? What if they are made to believe that they have very important duties and obligations towards their country, such that bribing and encouragingcorruption becomes blasphemeous??? You must be wondering what I'm getting at.
I want every person in India to be involved in the functioning of the country, aside from just voting blindly. This will make their actions fundamental to the stability of the country. Personal and deep involvement itself will cure half of the problems our country is plagued with. This will probably be a hundred thousand times more effective than a couple of ruffians louting about with red banners and shouting out slogans because they don't have anything better to do on a Sunday afternoon. But how can this be achieved?
I want to engage the people of India in intellectual debate. The motives of such debates will be mainly to arouse intellectual opinions regarding the political scenario of the country, and discuss the accepted social norms which modern times call to question. For example, although women are considered equal by law, there is still a norm that women are not to go out late at night because they are soft and demure creatures who may not be able to defend themselved against the street ruffians always on the lookout for them. Such an outlook is often fed by the Western caricatures of the perfect gentleman carrying his weak and soft lady in his arms even when faced with the worst of troubles. How well can these two 'antonymical' images co-exist, and how well are they consistent with Hindu culture- a culture in which the most powerful Gods are women- Godesses Durga and Kali.
Hence, creating opinion about social and political conditions, I intend to arouse intellectual thinking and break the wall of conservatism in the Indian populace, especially the youth, which will bring all of us into active roles in determing the fate of the country, in addition to eradicating our abhorrence of personal involvement in politics, and the notorious 'chalta hai' attitude. Our conservative attitudes will be dealt a severe blow, and we will surely meet success without criticising or praising the prevalent political system, which has spelled doom for countless student movements before us. We will be attacking the Indian mindset.

Hope this post makes some sense as to where I am headed....
Hope this post makes some sense as

India needs us

For centuries, we have axed our feet in the pursuit of the illusive fruit- the hope that God would set everything right without our intervention.
The result? Today, we are perhaps one of the most hated and despised communities throughout the globe.
The Americans and British hate us. Singaporeans and Malaysians ridicule our country. Why?
Because we have abandoned our country, and sold ourselves out to every country except our own. While we remain engrossed in bettering their country, out motherland is fed to the dogs. And we still remain "bloody Indians" instead of Americans or Malaysians, etc.
Out of the 100,000 graduates of the IITs, more than 25,000 work in the US alone.
The "Brain drain" has left our country in the hands of a couple of oldies who have no idea or foresight where our country will go from here.
Some of us- the youth of India- have been lucky enough to be exposed to the intricacies of various philosophies and political institutions like Democracy, Marxism, Capitalism, Existentialism, etc.
It is for such intellectuals that this blog has been made.
We do not want to campaign for a radical leader. Nor do we want to hold hunger strikes protesting against the sorry plight of the Indian students in Australia.
We just want to create political opinion in our motherland. We want the youth of India to have an opinion about the pros and cons of Manmohan Singh becoming the Prime Minister of India, Azharuddin being elected to the post of an MP, etc.
We want to teach our not-so-responsible brothers and sisters about the abundance of political opportunities in India- the superb merits of taking up a political career in India.
I would be specially obliged if more NRIs could join this blog, so that they would be able to share their unique experiences outside India.
I just hope that the youth of India rises, and takes the world by storm.

Jai Hind.

-Ayush Khaitan
Creator of this blog