Can Indian people endure the World War 3 or any major war if it occurs?

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.