Changing times….

India Today, in its latest issue has ranked 50 most powerful people of our country. If we go by the list which includes mostly the industrialist, rich and famous we can easily say that the most powerful people in the country are those people who have the money. The list is headed by Mr. Ratan Tata, he is followed by people like Mukesh Ambani, Anil Ambani, Amitabh Bachhan, Subrot Roy Sahara, Azeem Premji, Narayanmurti…… and so on. What does this indicate ? The power lies with the money. The only noticeable exception in this list is Aruna Roy, the activist who raised her voice for the accountablility of governement departments and demanded accounts for every penny of public spend by the governement.
We are gradually entering into an era, where money is gaining importance. Its very difficult to find the academecians and intellectual in the list and those people who are there in the list, I doubt they have made it to the list on the basis of sheer academic, intellectual or other factors, the deciding factor is always, the money.
When this kind of the list is projected by the mass media, the younger generation are not to be blamed for glorifying money, why they should be blamed. The success means now money, if you are not earning much, you are not successful. If you are more intellegent, more wise, you must be more rich, other wise you are no one. Why people are looking for higher paying jobs or business, it is not that they need that much amount of money to sustain thier life or they need all kind of luxuries. They want to be recognised as successful. And the luxuries are only the signs which communicate the degree of success. Baba Amte, Anna Hazare, Sandeep Pandey… they are not worth being the role model of younger generation, Sahrukh Khan, Amitabh, Rohit Bal etc. are there.