Are young Indians stupid grandstanding do-gooders?

"A Delhi court on Tuesday granted bail to climate activist Disha Ravi, saying that a call for violence for in the toolkit for the farmers' agitation was 'conspicuously absent'. In a significant observation, it added that citizens were conscience keepers of the government in any democratic nation and cannot be put behind bars simply because they choose to disagree with the state's policies." Ravi was accused of sedition for corresponding "online with foreign citizens and/or Indians abroad". Our revered Prime Minister likes to meet foreigners very cordially and even visited arch enemy Pakistan to take part in Nawaz Sharif's birthday. In a mocking article, Manu Joseph wrote, "It is just that I feel the best way that the young, especially those of privilege, can serve their nation better is by encashing their luck in the for-profit material world, rather than choosing the easy option of festive grandstanding and do-gooding, which is often harmful, at best useless or an inefficient way to make the world a better place." So cynical and arrogant. Young people are citizens and have every right to decide what kind of country they want to inherit from the selfish, corrupt old. "Her cause is undoubtedly good, but does she really understand the ground issues," asked Sandipan Deb. "For instance, all studies have shown that with free water and power in Punjab, its water table is being dangerously depleted;" and "Every year, at the onset of winter, farmers burn vast quantities of crop stubble in north India, creating a toxic haze that smothers the National Capital region". Young people are fools and old people know everything. It was politicians who started to supply free electricity to farmers to win elections. Punjab Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh has said that electricity will remain free. Farmers burn stubble because "our current system of subsidies is a big reason that there is stubble on these fields in the first place," wrote Jessica Seddon and Prof Ashok Gulati, and "The Indo-Gangetic plain is one of the world's largest and rapidly-growing ammonia hotspots." Because of subsidised urea fertiliser. Punjab farmers are protesting because they suspect the government of trying to get rid of minimum support price (MSP) for wheat and rice which guarantees a higher-than-market price. "In 2019, China spent an estimated $185.9 billion on farm subsidies, followed by the European Union ($101.3 billion), the United States ($48.9 billion) and India ($11 billion)," wrote Prof Kaushik Basu. If agriculture is privatised what is to stop private companies from importing cheap subsidised wheat and rice from Europe or the US? Just like there is an oil import lobby. Bihar got rid of MSP in 2006 and now, "low harvest prices have caused agriculture wages in Bihar to remain suppressed as compared to Punjab and Haryana and resulted in labour migration from the state," wrote Atul Thakur. Which means, Bihar farmers have been so impoverished that they are working as coolies for farmers in Punjab. "Much in the same way as India is doing now, the Kenyan government introduced these laws with the expectation that the rise of such businesses would transform smallholder agriculture for the better," wrote Prof Swati Dhingra. But 6 years on, "Farmers who were reliant on agri-businesses saw their incomes fall by an average 6%. They sold household assets to maintain their day-to-day consumption." Punjab farmers are right to mistrust government intentions and Disha Ravi is not a "privileged" "festive grandstanding and do-gooding" fool. "'At Adani, we want to be known as the big agri-infrastructure player and Adani Wilmar to be a big food company in the country,' said Atul Chaturvedi, CEO, agri-business at the Adani Group, in an interview," wrote Christophe Jaffrelot and Hemal Thakker. Adani agri-business and Ambani Reliance Fresh food stores in every town and city. Total control.