An Unnoticed Fact

We quite often hear our elders’ saying that this generation is quite smart and ten times sharper than, what they were at this age. Nevertheless, even we often find our own selves asserting the same punch line; whenever, we find kids younger than us, either take us aback by their some action or some saying.


All in all, just yesterday, while I was at the local mall, I noticed a TV channel team interviewing mothers and young kids. The theme was on chauvinism and while questioning the mothers their perception about flood relief activities, the children were asked to sing any national song. Astoundingly, most of the children winded up singing an Indian movie based song or were merely unable to recall any national song. Most of the kids sung “Dhoom macha ley dhoom” or “singh is king”. Now does that sound bizarre to anyone? Or conceivably we are just too used to of this pattern that it doesn’t sound odd at all.

It is high time that we should initiate realizing that our values, our nationalism and our culture are all fading away. Why is it such a dilemma that our young generation is unaware of any national song? I remember the time, when each year, near to the independence day, national songs from Noor Jehan’s era to Junaid Jamshed’s all time classic; “Dil dil Pakistan” and other bands like Awaz, Junnon,strings etc, used to be on aired on the local channels. And this was just a decade back, but today all we hear and let our youngsters watch are the Indian movies and the Indian songs.

Most of these songs hold such strong and explicit lyrics that it sounds erroneous and awkward. But do we take any initiative against it and stop the kids from humming them? The saddening answer is that only a certain percent does so. Our values are nearly dying. And our generation is so influenced by either Indian or the western media, that the significance and enthusiasm for the national songs or even the Independence Day has lost color.

On the whole, we ought to take measures against the pro-Indian and pro-west influence and direct our youngsters towards national media as well. After all, kids have a juvenile mind and they learn and act as they observe or have been taught by their elders. We should eradicate the redundant foreign media impact on them. Certainly, it will be pleasant to view the youngsters singing the sweet, melodious and patriotic songs.