What India needs are Shepherds

Firstly, for the sake of my satisfaction let me tell you the meaning of my last two words.Yes, look at the word beginning with “s” and ending with “d” (do not bother about its plural form).Shepherd.

Oxford defines Shepherd as a person who owns and guides a flock or a single sheep (in the worst case).What’s ‘sheep’? Sheep are those four-legged mammals that are flayed by their Shepherds to sell their fur. Recall that “mayyeeehhh mayyeeehhh” grunting sound you heard, when your two or four wheeler was obstructed by a bunch of small, goat like, furry animal. Still didn’t get it? Ok, I am giving you a hint. Look at the picture below.

                     

If any of my reader is still not getting what sheep means…take a whip or a baton and blow it heavily on your butt. To be honest, I expect all of us felt warmth on your lower half. Isn’t it? Why? Because you guessed wrong. You still do not know what a sheep is. Dear friends, Sheep is not that white furry animal which is looking at your face in the above picture. Sheep are you. Till the very past second the species sheep included me. Sheep are those animals that are born to take orders . And Shepherd is that man whom you have been following blindly. A single man guiding, oh sorry, ruling over hundreds of mentally-blind animals.  Apparently, our country has a big flock of sheep. At least few millions, I expect. Perhaps, the count will cross billions if we include the foreign countries. I may not be true, but big part of the flock comes from the private or the economic sector. Have a good percentage?, enrolled in a reputed college?, have a nice work experience?, have good communication skills? Ok, come to foreign, and we will provide you much of dollar hay. You all have seen something like this around. Isn’t it?  “Yes” is the most probable answer.  Every year, a plaster reflecting the lowest common denominator of the educated people is left with this country. It seems, in this “white rule-others serve world”, “Goras” are the Shepherds. Our country has a scarcity of such people. Every year the country produces hundreds of top class sheep passed out from some reputed institutes (You know, Shepherds have to separate sheep from the goats). Sheep who are borne to serve a Shepherd who in turn gives them wads of mouth-watering, eyes-widening green, hands-itching   currencies.

  Being invaded with my insuppressible thoughts, I hereby invite you to my “sheep to shepherd” game. Rules are simple-

(a) Isolate yourself from the flock

(b) Do not be vacuous, tinge yourself and leave green money aside

(c)Think how you can contribute to your motherland

(d)Work hard and press the accelerator.

{Being an entrepreneur is excellent, just ply your trade and help the sheep to create more and more money}

In turn, I bet you will earn two ‘not so economic things’, respect and self-satisfaction which is indeed much costlier and valuable than money according to me. Self-Satisfaction, which comes when we help others. Respect, which others give us when they see us guiding and helping our own compatriot.  KABOOOOMMM…….there comes the Shepherd in you  and here You Win The Game! Don’t you dare to giggle; I am damn serious about it. If someone feels that I am patriotic enough, I would like to tell him that Patriotism is not the word made only for a soldier dude. Serving other countries in spite of being an Indian (recall that India one of the largest economy in the world) and then masquerading your feeling of guiltiness makes no sense. The country has spent enough of its resources on us then why should we follow a stereotype idea of bagging a degree and then drilling our backs just for the green notes.  We have learnt plenty until now. It is time to make your fellow citizens make use of it. To make our people learn from us.

I know not tough, but not easy too, is shifting from “Can I” to “I can”. We have brains and we have potential. Why make their worst use serving other nations just for money? If all the educated people go abroad then I foresee that not only India will sink into a financial and economic quicksand but also the country will lose its dignity and respect. It is urgent that we must use our potential for ourselves. We do have Leaders who have a complete know-how of making optimum use of the country’s resources. We do have lacks of people bubbling with potential. Then why not make the best use of ourselves. All we need is that to make leaders understand and channelize the potential of these sheep instead of going abroad to serve others. Long ago, this BharatVarsh has proved itself one of the most powerful civilizations of the world of that era.  Now it’s our time to prove it again. India has a big flock but needs Shepherds. Hundreds of them.

It is better to shift yourself from the first pic to the pic below–