We have one more death to talk about. Media and the anchor and panelists have work to do. It is death. Maybe that of the richest industrialist or the most popular celebrity from the entertainment industry. Maybe it is a murder of a social activist. Or even the victim may be an innocent man from a tribal and forest area. The dead one may be victim of vehicle accident or even of terrorism. The debates and discussions and deliberations are loud. They certainly keep it’s memory, beaming into the heads of society, bureaucracy, law enforcers, legislators, regulators and many others. But all accusations and allegations are wasteful if the trend of rage and fury is not ended. Why do people get ignited in anger? Why do the arguments become volatile? We need answers and solutions. On whom shall we peg and attribute the accountability, for the social evils? We are not new to protests, strikes and hartals. Many people’s movements have expressed resistance to injustices and unfairnesses. Yet, none seem to be able to eliminate brutalities of one person on another. 

Shooting with automatic guns and assault rifles has made many news in the United States. Students shooting down fellow students. In the times when information technology and other internet services, how is it that one of the students feels compelled to do such crimes? Is our civilisation so very weak, that we cannot design the correct method to administer and govern ourselves? Is it the political system or the education? What is the gap in our understanding, that inhibits harmonics and tranquility, in our transactions? 

Maybe the human race is demanding much pampering and convenience and comforts. Our indulgences in temptations must be audited. Each individual must get the skill to understand the working of their own minds. Our minds produce thoughts. All that we express has  a ripple effect. Our expressions are signals from our psychology. The listener is picking up signals from your body language. The message of these signals become registered in the persons, who are observing your output and communications. So, the directive is becoming clear. An insight into the method of the working of our minds. We need education to this effect. We must expose ourselves to learning on the dynamics of methods of thinking. If we attend to the intelligence quotient and emotional intelligence, then there are possibilities. Discover methods and activities that can quieten the restlessness in mind. Practice techniques by doing which, people can cool down the heat in the brain. Is the comparison and competitiveness able to bring harm to the way, we relate with each other? The older generation has set the ripple effect. 

In the education and academic system, there is a name for this ripple effect. Excessive rote learning or irrelevant subjects. Heavy examinations and it’s marking of results. Promotion or detention. A framework of confinement, more than progression? This needs a revisit and then a reform. There are drops out from the schools and colleges. Many drop outs from scholastic and academic systems are illiterate about social norms and interpersonal alignment. They then have to rely on means of corruption to survive and sustain a living. A sense of denial and deprivation can become the rallying point for many destitute people. The young people who are marginalised can become organised by the successful, industrialists and other professionals. The young people, below the age of thirty must get a chance to join back into mainstream society.

The government must have vocational skill training programmes for the young people. Training in technical education and skill of information technology must be taught at all village levels. The young people of our country must get gainful employment. The industry must be able to set up manufacturing units and factories with the objective to employ these young people. Profits alone need not become the focus of companies. Value of living in a township must be understood. Living in ghettos and unhygienic slums must be discouraged. The young people must get access to live in good townships. The older generation and the people with resources must participate in such social endeavours. Provide for more hospitals and health centres.

Mental skills, soft skills and psychological infrastructure, must get much attention. Distress and despair in young people, must get vent and solace. Young people must be encouraged to expose and submit into personality development courses. Attitude and behaviour must be learned through certified and formal training programmes. Researchers and scientists are probing to find value in Pranayama techniques and practices of meditations. Students in some universities and colleges are claiming benefits from Sudarshan Kriya techniques. The knowledge about the principles by which our mental faculties function are premium. Precious is the ability to innovate solutions.

Sense of frustration or stifling can bring a thought suffocation in young minds. Addiction to contraband substances, drugs and alcohol is becoming common among the young population. The elders must participate to cleanse the neighbourhood from antisocial activities. The law enforcers must keep vigil and monitor the increase of behaviour disorders. Rowdyism, hooliganism and bullying by goons can frighten people from cultural participation. If you don’t participate to bring the erring youngsters to purposefulness, then they are prone to be misled by criminals. Bring them to the path of employment. So, this is the ripple effect. 

The mindset that breeds anger, rage and fury, manifests as violence and brutality. Maybe even murders. If the government would provide good infrastructure such as roads and railways, then the travel possibilities will be enhanced. Domestic tourism and travels to adventure parks will increase. Then, the young people have more productive activities for indulgence. It’s all a ripple effect.

Choking the businesses with strike from work and hartals has given regressive messages to the new generation. The leaders of politics must note that their protests, if not reasonable, can transmit messages of turmoil and trauma. So, even the methods of protests must have sanity and logic and rationale. The elder generation and peers and the adult community must all take cognizance for good social conduct. The lawmakers create much ripple effect. If the law makers and the legislators are weak and dull, then it will force miscreants to become smugglers and thieves. Though there is strict policing, yet, the community and society also has their duties and responsibilities. And one chief duty is to rehabilitate the young people who have already strayed away, out of the system of compliance. 

The Youth Leadership Training Programme(YLTP) must become mandatory in college level education. The YLTP has in it, syllabus to educate the young people that they work together in groups. The YLTP lessons educate the young people to also take responsibility for the events that happen towards them. The habitat of the young people must have abundances of electric power, drinking water and food materials. Exposure to developing agriculture is essential as an occupation for young minds. Most of all the society and the mayor of the city and the collector must have regular conferences with prominent members of society. The bureaucrats in power, must continuously engage the public through seminars and other round table conferences. The young people must get interactive opportunities with the officers of Administrative and Police services. The topics of discussion are enormous. Right from setting up entrepreneurship to startup incubation to Artificial Intelligence and blockchain technology. Or even about sexual misconduct and education about healthy and hygienic sexuality practices. Vast, range of concerns must get attention. Provision of infrastructure for outdoor sports and indoor games must be increased at least by twenty times, then what is available.

The ultimate objective is to engage the young generation, into a mainstream, productive economy. To cleanse the neighbourhood from the lifestyle of vagabonds and waywards people. To eliminate expression of apathy, lethargy and laziness. To downgrade greed for consumption of goods and services which are not directly uplifting the human psychology. To introduce some ability for sacrifice and penance so the one can reject the fixation on immediate gratification. A civilisation that has a vision for long term, consistent and sustainable, plans. To design behavioral policies to harness the innovative energies of the young people. We must construct a collective social and community alignment, to the cause of an intelligent community. Then, we can together get rid of the possibility of radicalised youth. Even dangers of extremist ideology can disrupt the youth from their mental poise and composures. Many mindsets are victims of indoctrination with distorted ideologies.

The Youth Leadership Training programme has ingredients and curriculum, to its participants, to become mentally mature. The entire society and neighbourhood is in effect an extension of their own family. There is intimacy among all the individuals of the neighbourhood. Each adult can open up to this new education of expanded familyhood. Then the tendency in people to be coercive to each other or even extortions of resources can be neutralised. Because the element that these victims are strangers can be converted to, these victims are members of my immediate family. We must call for a social churning. A metamorphosis that all can together plough through, the rigid and superstitious mannerisms that outcast and outlawed a large proportion of our young people. It’s important and urgent to enter into a pact of this idea of “Ripple Effect”.

The time is here for those with courage to connect together and decide to fabricate a harmonious society. Is the adult community benevolent enough to prepare the environment, so that the next generation has a better world than what you enjoyed? Are you ready to take charge of the Ripple Effect? Then you will shape the future of your neighbourhood. This is the way to get fulfilment, to the way that you live.