I congratulate Abhinav Bindra for his achievement. He has done something fantastic and we feel proud of it. But I dont understand the idea of using this achievement to say something about India's present generation. In my view, India's youth in general is as corrupt and narrow minded as the previous generation or maybe even worse. They are neither confident about themselves nor have self esteem or pride in being Indian. They hate people from other castes,religions etc. and really havent shown much improvement in civic sense,work ethic, professionalism or being open minded. This guy's achievement reflects his own hard work and talent. Dont equate that with the rest of today's overrated useless Indian youth. BTW I'm not a bitter old man. I'm 23 and I know what my generation is like.
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by RR on Aug 12, 2008 01:30 PM Permalink
Yeah u r right shiva, its the upper middle and upper class who dont know the value of money, dont value society, dont hv civic sense. To quote, come weekend friday night, saturday nights these guys party shouting and playing till wee hrs disturbing the neighbourhood and sleep like buffallows during the day when others are awake. They are over confident and wreckless guys not valuing the elders.
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by Manoj M on Aug 12, 2008 01:59 PM Permalink
Elders need to earn their respect. They earn their money & spend it the way they deem fit. Why are you complaining, is it because you wish you could emulate them? Everybody has different value of money. A man earning 5000Rs a month values 10 Rupees differently from a man earning 1000 p.m, or a man earning 1,00000 p.m. Dont insist that everybody's perception of the value of money should match yours. Bill Gates after having billions gave away almost 70% of his wealth. Have you even given away 0.7% of yours? Height of hypocrisy.
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by RR on Aug 12, 2008 02:50 PM Permalink
what respect u r talking gentleboy, its because of elders u r what u r now, u guys with your money spending power are spoilt ones, just wait for ur next gen u will know what I am saying, how many bill gates can you quote? Hp v can count by fingers.
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by Lekha Menon on Aug 12, 2008 01:29 PM Permalink
your observation is spot on. It's all about the individual. But i must say a large part of our urban young population is getting more confident and liberal.
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by sriram veeramani krishnan on Aug 12, 2008 01:40 PM Permalink
right on . bindra succeded because of effort sacrifice and the support of a cooperative WEALTHY family . in now way is he reflective of our generation of EDUCATED PROFESSIONALS. but many other sportsmen in india with bindras support will be able to succeed at the highest level . example narain karthikeyan who also hails from a wealthy but broad minded and supportive family . this success is more reflective of the fact that the need to work to feed families is restraining many potential sportsmen from giving their best . i guess its ovbvious. cheers
