It has become fashionable to say that Indians lack 'civic sense'. However, that is a misdiagnosis.

Civic behaviour is not instinctive. It is taught by the State to consciously build citizens.

Civic behaviour is learnt, and the Indian State never took the initiative.

THRD Every single modern country treats citizen formation as a core responsibility of governance. Civic education is made mandatory, formal, and continuous, not as moral preaching, but as practical instruction in how to live together. This binds people around good civic values.

This article, published by The Print and written by Karanjeet Kaur, is a prime example of how Boomers and Millennials fundamentally misunderstand Gen-Z! This thread shall serve as our generation's perspective on this topic, and I hope someone from The Print comes across this
🧵 The article assumes that because Gen Z is showing interests in trends like "Bhajan Raves", somehow we are skewing towards conservatism. This point is accurate objectively, but completely misunderstands the context, and subjective reasoning behind it.

The contrast between Shashi Tharoor and Rahul Gandhi reflects two ideological tendencies that have existed within Congress. The problem is not their coexistence. The problem is Congress’s inability to choose, integrate, or execute either coherently.
(Neutral analysis thread) Tharoor broadly aligns with a 90's era Congress tendency that was urban-facing, institutionally oriented, and reform-compatible. This orientation emerged during economic transition and elite-led governance, not as virtue, but as a historical circumstance.

English Poses a bigger threat to South Indian languages than Hindi does. Explained using science (THREAD) First, let’s talk structure.

Languages are either:
>Head-final (like Kannada, Tamil, Telugu, Hindi etc)
>Head-initial (like English)

This means:
Kannada: “I rice ate”
English: “I ate rice”
That’s not a small difference. It affects how we process reality.

Most Indians spend the first 20 years of their life inside an education system that prepares them neither for public life nor for personal depth. It produces anxious competitors, not confident citizens. The tragedy is not its failure, but that it succeeds-at the wrong thing. We mistake education for instruction. But instruction is mechanical. Education is moral. Instruction teaches you to perform. Education teaches you to decide. One makes you eligible. The other makes you responsible. This difference is not minor. It is civilizational.