Dear\nFriend,<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In\ntoday’s world, the biggest time-waster is the smart phone. While it has enabled\nthe social media economy which drives Industry 4.0, it has also become an\naddiction for the youth. At a time when you should be focusing on building your\ncareer, smart phones are eating into hours of your valuable time every day. The\nfamous author Mr. Chetan Bhagat says, “Common Indians will become poorer\nand serve the few rich and elite. Yet, the youth is busy with their phones,\nlost in their cheap 4G data packs, watching silly videos, playing video games\nand perhaps debating with people over social media all day.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Mr.\nBhagat has hit the nail on the head. This is the time that the country is being\nbuffeted by a ‘triple whammy’ of a record contraction of 23.9% between April to\nJune 2020 followed by a 7.5% contraction in the next quarter officially landing\nIndia in a recession, the Number 2 global position in Covid-19 cases, and\nChinese troops relentlessly building pressure on India at Ladakh. India is\nblessed with a young population. It needs the energy of you young people to\npull your country out of the morass that it finds itself in. This is not the\ntime to fritter away on your smart phones. Put them away and focus on building\nyour career.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Competition\nis likely to become more cut-throat as companies continue to shed jobs on\naccount of a sharp drop in aggregate demand. Such unemployment drags the nation\ndown into a vicious cycle of Keynesian Depression. It needs the focused\nstrength of our young men and women to get back to a high growth trajectory.\nPlease remember that the videos that you are enjoying on WhatsApp and Facebook\nare taking you further from a seat in an IIT or IIM, or a position in the IAS.\nDo you think that it is a price worth paying?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The\nsevere and strict lockdown seems to have had the effect of flattening the wrong\ncurve\u2014the GDP growth curve and not the Covid-19 curve. If we Indians truly wish\nto become a rich superpower, buying a few planes or chanting jingoistic slogans\nare not likely to help us achieve our goal. We need sustained hard work to\nbuild a superpower the way the Americans had done after winning independence\nfrom the British. Ever since we won independence, we have not put in the kind\nof hard work that the US and China have done. We should follow the example of\nour Prime Minister Mr. Narendra Modi, who has been putting in 14 to 16 hours of\nhard work every day to take the country forward. Emulating this trait, you\nshould also put in similar hours of hard work on your studies to take your\ncareer forward.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
An\nimportant lesson for you to learn from the experience of building America as a\nsuperpower is self-confidence. Americans possessed the ‘Pioneer Spirit.’ They\nbelieved that no power in the world\u2014not even the mighty British\u2014could prevent\nthem from emerging as the pre-eminent economic and military power in the world.\nYou need to know that the world respects economic and military power. No\ncountry will be taken seriously if it is not rich, no matter how great its\nhistory, how wonderful its traditions, or how tasty its food are. You want\nIndia to be a superpower? Help India become rich. It is you\u2014the youth of\nIndia\u2014who need to step up and stem the fall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
You\nneed to shut your time-wasting devices like your smart phones and build your\ncareer. As always, I wish you every success!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Friends,\nas per the directions of Department of Posts, Government of India to all the\nRegistered Newspapers in India, we have to post the issue in December 2020\nscheduled to be posted in December 2020 by printing separate editions or\ncombining multiple editions or by skipping some editions, etc. Hence, the CSR\nJanuary 2021 issue is being posted on the authorised dates allotted to us in\nDecember 2020. CSR December 2020 issue is being incorporated in CSR January\n2021 issue. All the regular subscribers will be getting one additional issue of\nCSR. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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