What should KK do?
By: Amit Bhushan Date: 10th Mar. 2016
What an earth shaking question in the polity of a nation of the magnitude as ours. Political avarice of novices often requires them to be confront with tough choices; it may however yield some stupendous opportunities in sundry cases. The case of KK, a student politician, is a point to ponder. Such students are heralded to their political pinnacle, partly due to mis-adventures of ‘leaders' in government and partly due to political opportunism by opposition.
The mass media (not using the term "commercial" here deliberately, out of consideration for their role, this time round) picks up such cases and then follows it up diligently. In one or two cases though, it may start pondering about the various choices such person may have/apply, and allowing the best amongst them (media "professionals") to show off their creative genius. So various kinds of advice are laid at the doorsteps of the concerned person. Even the pink press joins in as if the stock market in particular and economy in general may collapse, if KK is left on his own. And what do we see in terms of advice is - if KK joins the left politics, the center or the right. This is debated in a nation where politicians and parties may not command much respect amongst most common students. So I thought to venture in with social media/alternate politics own views on what can KK possibly do and how can he carry forward his struggle.
To begin with KK should deliberate what a career should be. That would give him idea that he should look at long term, self-satisfying opportunities with some decent money and be of some service to society as well especially, his community, near and dear ones. He may suddenly realize that political career and party politics doesn't have this on offer and so he may turn to look for some better options. Given his media exposure a regular job may not be an option and in any case such a thing may be just too drab for a person of such choice/s. So in this business environment he may want to evaluate himself for entrepreneurship. While there may be many options in this regard by KK may want to use his media exposure to hilt because in any case his own money may fell short of what is needed to pursue his goals.
Amongst the many choices, he may want to exercise sticking to media related ventures because this is where he has depicted considerable strength. Now since there is too much competition in this arena he can decide areas where he would get community backing and support for his venture.This may give him idea to start something in native lands, something on internet; which has global reach and uses most of his skills as well. In order to be of benefit to his family, near and dear ones and community, he can decide to start a Bhojpuri sanskaran of Google say, "Bujhailo-ki Naahi". Such a stupendous opportunity might allow him to command respect amongst media while making full use of his strength to garner spotlight. It allows him to draw the best out of community and make use of these, in a wise, constructive fashion. It helps him to contribute to society by raising the information level amongst community, bring them job opportunities and spawn many new careers.
Such a venture has huge chances to garner support from the rich netas who want to up-lift all budbaks and so financing the venture may not be a problem at all. In any case, the netas may not want to let go the opportunity to uplift budbaks pass by, since that may have potential for challenge to their role as well as risk the future of their progeny which is almost always confirmed, hitherto. Regards business model, technical talent, business skills etc. there is no dearth information, knowledge and talent within the country or community. The decision for such a venture is most likely to expose him to all stupendous claims of the government at central as well as state level and give him further opportunity to expose the government on this count, which is what he wanted to do, as what it seems like from conduct so far. So the journey as well as end result all seem to be win-win and his media exposure is going to be a huge plus. And the government of the day may be better placed to take him seriously since this may become the test case of their argument of good governance.
Given the known business models, after some initial burn, this has money at the end of the tunnel is not in doubt, else google may have shut down by now. Service to society as well as being of worth to near and dear ones is also well understood. To the normal person from community (including budbaks) it yields a plethora of knowledge at the click of the mouse. The power of information and new ideas may spawn further development in the community and yield more opportunity and ideas. It helps people understand more about things out of their immediate concerns areas allows them to collaborate more effectively, subject of course to political will. For the fund yielding netas (of budbaks), it gives them a tool whereby which their progeny can now qualify in examinations without support from outside of the examination hall (of course some small instruments not being counted in this calculation). All in all, this may seem to be a better choice and however it for the KK and others in limelight to weigh upon.
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