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Delhi leads a quiet revolution
Delhi's Gen Aware wants to right the wrongs and is not shy of coming on to streets for that.
Delhi's Gen Aware wants to right the wrongs and is not shy of coming on to streets for that.
The most innocuous of reasons can sometime lead to a paradigm change. And the most apathetic of people can turn into champions of that revolution. Delhi, despite the history and its status as the capital, is the most unlikely venue for a revolution.
But revolution it is - a quiet and subtle change that is taking place all around us.
It began with the candlelight vigils for Jessica Lall and turned into a full-fledged protest once students took to streets asking for repealing of the reservation quota.
IIT-Delhi students started signature campaigns asking for premier institutes to be left alone. And the city RWAs are fighting their own battle - they want Delhi to be cleaner, better and greener. Each one of these is a typical example of a people's movement.
Says Jiten Jain, a student of Indraprastha University, "If there is something wrong then it needs to be corrected. We are offering workable solutions, be it the Jessica Lall issue, quota or the Clemenceau episode. We are trying to draw the nation towards an intellectual debate."
But by people who otherwise believe in minding their own business at the helm?
"It's because of the government turning a deaf ear to public's pleas for so long that the common man's chalta hai attitude is giving way to an active approach," says social activist Gerson Da Cunha. That and the fact that the Gen Aware of today is not afraid of asking questions and demanding their rights.
Shubham Garg, an MAMC student asserts, "We have a vision in our mind, when it is threatened we ought to retort. It is high time we take notice of things happening around us and not turn a blind eye towards them."
Movies like Rang De Basanti and Yuva also did their bit in bringing about this change. As Tanmay Rajpurophit of Lok Paritran, a political party comprising IIT students, says, "There is difference between art and real life.
A movie is just 150 minutes long but turning it into reality asks for dedication, commitment and sacrifice. But at the same time, if these movies bring an awakening, let there be more RDBs and Yuvas."
The most innocuous of reasons can sometime lead to a paradigm change. And the most apathetic of people can turn into champions of that revolution. Delhi, despite the history and its status as the capital, is the most unlikely venue for a revolution.
But revolution it is - a quiet and subtle change that is taking place all around us.
IIT-Delhi students started signature campaigns asking for premier institutes to be left alone. And the city RWAs are fighting their own battle - they want Delhi to be cleaner, better and greener. Each one of these is a typical example of a people's movement.
What makes these protests stand out is the fact that they involve people like us, and all of them began in Delhi and were soon replicated in other parts of the country. So, is Delhi finally turning into a catalyst of change?
Says Jiten Jain, a student of Indraprastha University, "If there is something wrong then it needs to be corrected. We are offering workable solutions, be it the Jessica Lall issue, quota or the Clemenceau episode. We are trying to draw the nation towards an intellectual debate."
But by people who otherwise believe in minding their own business at the helm?
"It's because of the government turning a deaf ear to public's pleas for so long that the common man's chalta hai attitude is giving way to an active approach," says social activist Gerson Da Cunha. That and the fact that the Gen Aware of today is not afraid of asking questions and demanding their rights.
Shubham Garg, an MAMC student asserts, "We have a vision in our mind, when it is threatened we ought to retort. It is high time we take notice of things happening around us and not turn a blind eye towards them."
Movies like Rang De Basanti and Yuva also did their bit in bringing about this change. As Tanmay Rajpurophit of Lok Paritran, a political party comprising IIT students, says, "There is difference between art and real life.
A movie is just 150 minutes long but turning it into reality asks for dedication, commitment and sacrifice. But at the same time, if these movies bring an awakening, let there be more RDBs and Yuvas."
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