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I met P. today and we spent 90 minutes chewing on how to conserve forest land in India. We circled leakage issues, the need for conservation to create fast economic opportunities for locals and some great recent mobilisations such as the TeachIndia campaign. We finished with a chat about why he wouldn’t give up his Indian passport – (a) principles; (b) political or economic future possibilities.
I walked away thinking about how youth could be mobilised, made aware and honed, before materialism reduces their youthful idealism to materialistic drive. I would call this movement - ‘Transform’. An organisation to harness Indian youth like the American PeaceCorp. A channelling of the revolutionary youth fervour into knowing their own country, ideally in a different part of the country. A homestay would be easy to organise – but it’s so imperative to capture, nuture and grow the passionate belief in their eyes. It would be necessary to persuade parents that gap months are a good idea. Perhaps it could also take on a junior version, where high schoolers work towards an Indian award, rather than the musty English relic of the Duke’s Award. Perhaps in 50 years, Transform could be a parallel citizen’s administration to address local and national issues.
