"Life is real, life is earnest and the grave is not its goal"

Contributed by Navjot Kaur

Ten years is not a big period of time, it may step in any moment now. The first question that we must ask ourselves is: Are we prepared to receive it? Every era in human history demands a mindset, to tune in with the age. By 2017, science will take a giant leap. Science and history play equal role in world power and with history are related the big names.

Heard the names, Karl Marx, Fidel Castro, Joseph Stalin, Vladimir Lenin, Rosa Luxemburg, Mao Zedong, the list is long…… but hey.. Am I forgetting any name??????? CHE, ya that's the name, how can I forget the name. All the youth in world take Che as a symbol of freedom, a symbol of life, their ICON. ya surely an ICON. Guevara became an icon of socialist revolutionary movements and a cultural icon worldwide.

An Alberto Korda photo of him has received wide distribution and modification, appearing on t-shirts, protest banners, and in many other formats. The Maryland Institute College of Art called this picture "the most famous photograph in the world and a symbol of the 20th century. In any nation the youth necessarily forms the vangaurd in most spheres of activity, and it is essential that at this critical juncture its power must be mobilised further to strengthen our integrity and our capacity to resist aggression. What is required is an immense burst of idealism and energy among our youth.they constitute an immense reservoir of strength which, if properly channnelised, can prove to be a source of great power to the world. Indeed it is these young people who will soon be called upon to provide leadership in all walks of natural life, and they must train themselves to fulfil their future responsibilities with destinction."Our problem being to form the future, we can only form it on the materials of the past; we must use our heridity,instead of denying it."

The dimension of PATRIOTISM. I am concerned here not so much with the routine meaning of this term as with deeper patriotism which transcends all pettiness and exclusivism, and creates in our youth a deep urge for national unity and progress. This alone can eradicate corruption and nepotism from our land and galvanize our whole process of economic development. The youth of a nation is always the fountainhead of its idealism, and our young men and women must have a full realization that it is up to them to provide a new moral impetus to world. The younger generation today faces challenges graver than any with which their forefathers were confronted. What is at stake is nothing less than whether a secular and democratic nation, founded on principles of justice, liberty, equality and fraternity, can survive in this age. Destiny has given us the privilege of providing the answer to this momentous question, and I am confident that when the history of this turbulent era comes to be recorded our young men and women will not have been found waiting.