"LESSON IN MORAL VALUES IS MUST"
The new breed of children drive in their superfast cars with a false sense of importance. The blame lies with the parents who have no time for them.
I have been living in Delhi for over 20 years now but the city still manages to fill me with horror and amazement at the diverse lifestyles that exist. With affluence on the rise so are the problems associated with it. Today, most children who live life in the fast lane come from rich families. They love to drive Ferraris, Porches, Lamborghinis and jeeps, flaunt designer labels and can be spotted regularly at pubs.
This new breed of children, with their VVIP license plate numbers, drive around the city with a false sense of self importance. Since they are children of big business houses or have a political backing, it opens doors to everything where they want to go. The fact that most of them have got their degrees from some foreign university only adds to the pseudo importance. Of course, it doesn’t matter that the university from where they have graduated has never been heard of back home. It just needs to have a foreign stamp. The thin line between the nouveau-riche and those with old money is diminishing. However, the difference in the upbringing is easy to spot — the nouveau-riche are crass and are not apologetic about flashing their money.
They earn to spend on everything that they can flaunt — from cars to wearing designer labels to branded sunglasses to belts and shoes — everything they wear screams of money. Their egos are bigger than their bank balances. In short, they are rolling in money and think that the passport to getting accepted in the society is by showing their fancy car, huge house, a fat wallet and be seen at all the happening places. This class of people thinks that by giving away expensive gifts to friends, drinking and smoking will make them ‘hep’ instantly. They don’t think twice about undergoing cosmetic surgeries and fly to London for haircuts every six weeks. Going for surgery to lose weight is the done thing, whether it is good or not takes a backseat.
In the last few weeks, I have read a lot about the irresponsible behaviour of the 20-plus. Driving recklessly in their superfast cars and killing the innocent on the road has become a norm for them. One wonders who is to be blamed — the parents or the children?
To keep the children happy and prevent them from interfering in the busy life, parents today have forgotten to impart the right morals and values in their children. Instead they send them to expensive hostels and and once they have passed their Class XII, they are send to foreign universities. This behaviour in parents is appalling. The mothers attend kitty parties and the fathers are busy networking to give the message that they have ‘made it big’.
In order to keep the younger generation grounded, the parents will have to make a lot of sacrifices. They first need to cut down the pocket money and second, give children lessons in moral values. It is unfortunate that this breed thinks that scandals like MMS and coming in and out of rehabilitation centres is nothing out of the ordinary.
The sad part is that the under-privileged also wants the same kind of lifestyle and resorts to wrong means to achieve it. But can they be blamed?
The new breed of children drive in their superfast cars with a false sense of importance. The blame lies with the parents who have no time for them.
I have been living in Delhi for over 20 years now but the city still manages to fill me with horror and amazement at the diverse lifestyles that exist. With affluence on the rise so are the problems associated with it. Today, most children who live life in the fast lane come from rich families. They love to drive Ferraris, Porches, Lamborghinis and jeeps, flaunt designer labels and can be spotted regularly at pubs.
This new breed of children, with their VVIP license plate numbers, drive around the city with a false sense of self importance. Since they are children of big business houses or have a political backing, it opens doors to everything where they want to go. The fact that most of them have got their degrees from some foreign university only adds to the pseudo importance. Of course, it doesn’t matter that the university from where they have graduated has never been heard of back home. It just needs to have a foreign stamp. The thin line between the nouveau-riche and those with old money is diminishing. However, the difference in the upbringing is easy to spot — the nouveau-riche are crass and are not apologetic about flashing their money.
They earn to spend on everything that they can flaunt — from cars to wearing designer labels to branded sunglasses to belts and shoes — everything they wear screams of money. Their egos are bigger than their bank balances. In short, they are rolling in money and think that the passport to getting accepted in the society is by showing their fancy car, huge house, a fat wallet and be seen at all the happening places. This class of people thinks that by giving away expensive gifts to friends, drinking and smoking will make them ‘hep’ instantly. They don’t think twice about undergoing cosmetic surgeries and fly to London for haircuts every six weeks. Going for surgery to lose weight is the done thing, whether it is good or not takes a backseat.
In the last few weeks, I have read a lot about the irresponsible behaviour of the 20-plus. Driving recklessly in their superfast cars and killing the innocent on the road has become a norm for them. One wonders who is to be blamed — the parents or the children?
To keep the children happy and prevent them from interfering in the busy life, parents today have forgotten to impart the right morals and values in their children. Instead they send them to expensive hostels and and once they have passed their Class XII, they are send to foreign universities. This behaviour in parents is appalling. The mothers attend kitty parties and the fathers are busy networking to give the message that they have ‘made it big’.
In order to keep the younger generation grounded, the parents will have to make a lot of sacrifices. They first need to cut down the pocket money and second, give children lessons in moral values. It is unfortunate that this breed thinks that scandals like MMS and coming in and out of rehabilitation centres is nothing out of the ordinary.
The sad part is that the under-privileged also wants the same kind of lifestyle and resorts to wrong means to achieve it. But can they be blamed?
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