Rakesh Kumar Pandit
The advancement in modern technology, particularly the revolution in information technology has helped the country and the student community immensely during the last two decades. The competition in this field of information technology has made the different services particularly internet services cost-effective. Slowly the lap-tops are being replaced by smart phones and it needs just click of a button and very small amount of money to get information of any sort and from any existing field of this universe. What a boon it is, in the modern times of competition. But as every good side has its bad side also, this internet facility carries with it the un-ethical part of pornography. The rise in criminal cases against children and women is directly linked to the watching of pornographic contents. Every day we hear about the rape, murder and violence against women and small innocent children. The severity and magnitude of such offences is increasing at an alarming rate. It is believed that nearly twenty crore porn videos or clips are freely available on-line or through the internet. The previous Central Government in May 2014, has expressed its inability in the Honb’le Supreme Court to block websites with pornographic content in the country. The center through its solicitor general has submitted that it would cause more harm as literary content containing such words would also not be available for public on internet. Keeping in view its bad impact on the society, the Central Government should not look at this problem casually. The attitude of the Government cannot be justified mere on the basis of the technicalities of the matter. The central government is modifying the laws to punish criminals for sexual offences against women and children, but it is not willing to address the main cause of such offences. The new Central Government has made budgetary proposals to improve security of women, but problem of women security needs to be addressed comprehensively.
It is an unfortunate state that day and night vulgarity, obscenity, provocative pictures and literature are displayed through newspapers, magazines, social media web-sites and television. The sexual content the children and the youth are accessing today is brutal, destructive and has put entire society in danger. It has poisoned the minds of little children and filled their minds with filth which is highly detrimental to their overall growth and studies. Children are getting exposed to such things so prematurely and it develops among them the criminal instincts and perishes their moral values. The impact of pornography on the minds of today’s youth and children are crossing all danger signals. They develop the tendency of looking at the opposite sex as mere sex toys with whom they want to play. What will happen to this youth force, if they are not well protected in time from harmful effects of this crude sensual pleasure? This wild fire of lust will engulf the little minds and entire youth community in its primary phase. This will make them weak physically, mentally, morally, intellectually and above all spiritually. One of the bad effects of watching such sites is poor concentration of mind and without concentration of mind no great achievements are possible.
The absence of proper internet laws to deal with such websites is adding fuel to the fire. The direction needs to be passed to all computer and mobile phone manufacturers and suppliers to install such software which will automatically block pornographic sites. Parents must also keep check and balances in providing facilities to the children at least up to the age of 16 years. The parents, elders and teachers must provide proper guidance to the children and youth. They can help them to keep away from such dirt and filth. This will save their youth and energy and also would not invite physical and mental diseases in their youthful years. The moral and ethical values needs to be practiced and taught by all of us to our children, so that they realize their primary duty of study and learning through self-discipline and concentration.
The foundation of any great work is to be established in the prime of youth and therefore it is the prime duty of the children and youth to study and acquire life making skills. This requires physical, mental and spiritual energy. How a boy or a girl can be successful, if his or her mind is engaged in sensual pleasures and spends lot of time in entertainment and enjoyment. Such students because of their scattered and restless mind will not be able to develop concentration and are bound to fail in every aspect of life. Swami Vivekananda has said, “To me the very essence of education is concentration of mind, not the collecting of facts.” Swami Vivekananda’s literature can help the youth to develop perfect character. It is most relevant practical and inspiring particularly for youth. Study of lives of great personalities will help to keep the mind calm and will result in good conduct, behavior and good character. The new Government at the center is headed by an inspirational leader Narender Modi and the people of India have lot of expectations from him. It is thus an appeal and request to the government of India to look into the matter earnestly, and devise a mechanism to filter out the dirt and filth from the flow of useful information in the internet, so that the young and refreshing minds could be saved. It will definitely result in improving the security of women and children in our country.
(The author is Assistant Professor of Physics at GDC-Bhaderwah)
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