The Generation Jump

Generation gap (noun); a difference of attitudes between people of different generations, leading to a lack of understanding.

It’s natural that two people of different major age groups have a difference in their ways, whether it be their spirit, aptitude, reaction, attitude, calm and almost every aspect of one’s personality. There weren’t enough of repercussions of the generation gap as serious as are nowadays, so this term was never of as much importance as it’s of today.

Despite the fact that we lag behind a generation or two from the western world when it comes to social life, individualism and individual autonomy, nowadays the youth are exposed to the kind of lifestyle the people in west practice, through movies, songs, books, media and all. There is a major cultural exchange underway. These sources offer a great insight to the western world, and the thoughts of individual’s freedom of deciding his own future, the liberty to do whatever one feels like to do, to live independently without any interference from elders and family and many other liberties which aren’t prevalent in majority of the South Asian societies, find a great sense of acceptance amongst the youth and affect their thoughts and attitude majorly.

Once these thoughts get instilled in the mind of young people, they are excited to redeem the same for them from their backgrounds as well, now a point worth mentioning is that most of the people in their families are not familiar to these thoughts at par and are hence reactive. This is the point where the problem really starts.

Kashmir; A Local Account

In almost last two months nearly about 100 citizens have lost their lives at the hands of the security forces, agitating the encounter of the slain Hizb militant Burhan Muzaffar Wani. Here in Jammu, just another part of the same state the popular reaction is diagonally opposite, to the people here and almost throughout rest of India he was a terrorist but to the people of Kashmir he was a militant and a freedom fighter but a terrorist, here a mark of confusion is more literal in sense than that of narrative, maybe these two words  “Terrorist” and “Militant” have quite same resemblance but actually have totally different meanings, A Militant is a person who has taken up arms for some purpose, can be good as well as bad but at the other hand Terrorist means a person who terrorises others for eg; to a school going kid a bully is a terrorist or to an innocent farmer a land grabber is a terrorist, So the point here is about  the difference in characters of the same actors in respect to different  audiences.