WORLD BELONGS TO THE GENERATION NEXT
“Out of the sighs of one generation are kneaded the hopes of the next.” Machado de Assis T he world always belongs to the Generation Next… That’s why, it’s said – ‘Life Beckons’ … Meaning, ‘Life Calls’! One of the things, I have been ‘consciously’ trying to do, is to keep quiet and actively listen to my 27-year-old son as he speaks. It doesn’t mean, that I know nothing, or much less than him. It simply means, that the future no more belongs to my generation… I may live in a denial, I may suffer from my inflated ego… but, if I am honest enough, I would realize, that my time is over… and, it’s over to the Generation Next… A defeatist attitude? No, a realistic one, Sir! The child will always be the father of the Man… Remember writing your school essay? Most of us never understood what that saying meant. I think, we still do not have a clue! 2020 – on whose eve Amitabh Bachchan had tweeted urging us not to get too excited about as there was only ...