Can Indian people endure the World War 3 or any major war if it occurs?
Predictions aside, let’s just here
talk about the possibility of World War 3. It has been rumoured that the next
world war can hit in next 20 or 30 years and no matter what, almost all the major
countries would be participating in the war. Being a powerful nation, India
will also be a part of it. However the real question is, can India endure the
consequences of a world war? Wars always come with destructions and chaos and
crisis. It’s how you deal with these thing that shows your endurance and
approach toward such situations.
Yes, India has fought personal wars
in history. However, we all know that world war is a way more dreadful than
those wars. Moreover, we have suffered severely in those wars too. But are we
ready to suffer the consequences of any major war? That would include a
judgemental war against Pakistan.
For me, the answer is simply NO.
India doesn’t seem ready to deal with such disaster. The reasons are quite
simple and straight.
People’s mentality:
To be honest, most Indian People
are hypocrites. They boast to handle any kind of tragedy, but when the tragedy
hits, they complain about problems. Thanks to Prime Minister Modi that he has
shown us how Indians would behave during real crisis. Apparently, the current
generation has never seen an actual war. They don’t know what war looks like
and how it impacts citizens of the country. The main reason behind their lack
of knowledge is their lack of curiosity toward their own history. Our own
history. Almost every Indian takes History as a boring subject and that is the
reason why they don’t know anything about war, emergency, crisis and shortage
of supplies.
Tolerance:
The recent act of Demonetization
seems to have shocked many people. Though it has been a noble initiative by the
government to curb terrorism and black money, people tend to be complaining
about temporary inconvenience they have been facing. Such problems include long
queues at banks and ATM, unable to access their money quickly enough and
shortage of new currency. All the other problems are related to these three
issues. Now, this act has shown us the real tolerance level of people. Most
Indians boast about India-Pakistan judgemental war and claim to support the
government. Whereas they can’t even endure temporary barriers.
Impact of wars:
There is a reason why knowledge is
important. As Robert Langdon says in Dan Brown’s books that the knowledge of
our past is the key of our future. We must know the history, at least the
important history, so that we would not make the same mistakes again and again.
I’d like to refer this to our youth.
When American Civil War was being
fought, nearly 4,00,000 men died in that war and people started blaming
President Abraham Lincoln for their deaths. Even the Republicans started
opposing Lincoln on his amendment to abolish slavery. However, he stood by his
decision and that resulted in the creation of United States of America and
abolishment of slavery. The war concluded deaths of more than 7,00,000 men. If
you’ve read the history properly, you know how many people selflessly
contributed their luxuries and their comforts for the sake of their nation.
During 1960s’, while Vietnam War
was being fought, it has been reported that even young fellows from college had
enrolled themselves to participate in the war. Apparently, they did suffer
dreadful consequences including lifetime injuries and heavy amount of deaths.
What today’s youth has presented us is completely opposite thing. They don’t
want to suffer temporary inconvenience and they boast about tolerance and
courage.
Even in India, youth contributed
the movements of freedom during early 1900s. However, youth was inglorious to
choose violent ways in those movements, according to non-violent ones. And it
was reported in the late 1940s that youth really did contribute in their own
ways. However, considering the current youth, I hardly believe they’d ever
think about leaving their comfortable AC rooms and contribute anything to
nation.
I’m not denying the problems that a
common man faces due to demonetization. However, if you think about major wars,
not only army but the people also have to face troubles. And these troubles
generally include money shortage, food shortage, long term financial crisis, deaths,
economic downfall any many more terrible problems that we can’t even imagine. Yes,
such problems CAN occur even in the judgemental war between India and Pakistan.
The world war would be more hideous than that.
During the Second World War, the world
almost sank in the crisis, while India had merely participated. Besides we were
going through our freedom issues. Today’s youth who don’t read, who don’t want
to glance back, they don’t know the real face of freedom. It may look like a
nice scenario now, but back then, it was not a financially cheerful moment.
After the wars with China and Pakistan, we’ve suffered a lot, which the current
generation does not know.
Technology:
Internet would be the most
important factor in future wars. Today people know how to boast on Social Media,
but when they would see the dreadful glimpse of war, I bet their fingers will
tremble while typing. Internet has power to spread the news quicker. And we don’t
know if this would be an advantage or a disadvantage during the war. We can
surely spread the information quickly enough, but so is with rumours. And
believe me or not, rumours create anarchy. And during the real crisis, anarchy
breaks our courage.
Here I’m not just talking about
Indian Youth. Let’s take American Youth in count too. Recently Donald Trump’s
Victory made them go crazy enough that they started destroying their own
properties. They started protesting against him violently. Now, God forbids,
but what would you do if Trump is the president and the World War starts? Would
you protest against his every decision? America has rich history of strong
presidents. President Lincoln handled the situation wisely. President Kennedy
remained strong. Are we considering that today’s American People would even
selflessly support the war as their ancestors did back in 60s? I’m not even
talking about enrolling themselves, I’m just talking about moral support. The
same goes with Indian Youth too.
Conclusion:
I’m
just asking few questions. And if you figure out the answers, there is your
conclusion.
Are we saying that these people,
who can’t stand temporary inconveniences, are able to endure the consequences
of any major war? Are we saying that these people could endure the shortage of
supplies? Are we sure these people could endure deaths without blaming anyone?
Will these protesters also protest against any decision taken during the war? While
those young kids of college selflessly enrolled them in military to fight in
the war, do we expect our youth to contribute even a little bit?
Valour, courage, selflessness,
power… These words sound extraordinary. But when we have to prove them, we
hesitate.
