Social Influence and Popularity

 Social Influence and Popularity

Money comes from Popularity:

In this era of technology and social media, everyone wants to be famous in very little time. There are three most lucrative ways, kids dream to use for instant popularity and making money i.e. Become an Actor / Actress in Movies, Become a Politician, Become a Cricket Player. Earlier, the most lucrative way was to become an IAS or Doctor or Engineer. 

Money Money and Money

The idea of "Three Idiots" movie is not being used in real life even today. People are still crazy to make money even with choosing beyond the interest of their children. The annual income of IAS or Doctor or Engineer is on an average between 10 lacs to 1 Crore but the incomes of Celebrities of Cricket, Bollywood, and Politicians are in Crores. 

No doubt, their contribution is really great in uplifting the economy and the new generation also take dreams to become a celebrity for gaining prestige. But do you think, becoming celebrity for gaining prestige will uplift our nation?

Would you say unbecoming of IAS or Doctor or Engineer will help nation to get more progress if youth put efforts in becoming celebrities? Obviously No.

Then what to do to get rid of the culture making children attract to play or to participate in talent shows or to try becoming politician without being passionate for it. Let's take the time of crisis from Covid-19, the doctors come ahead as warriors to safeguard the citizens of whole nation. Take example of earthquakes, the engineers come ahead to safeguard and rebuild the nation. Take the example of corruption, the IAS community come ahead to ensure Good Governance and e-governance. The economic growth depends upon fair conduct of all economic activities, corruption-free nation however, it has become a dream for most of the countries of world. It's true if a country not get progress Socially, intellectually, culturally then strategically, it always become backward in future. Due to rise in unproductive areas of becoming celebrities,   soon the corruption will increase and honest people will not have any place in society.

Today's need of the hour is to appreciate and honor the professionals contributing in building nation including Doctors and Engineers. The spirit of nationality should be inculcated in children.

Mahatma Gandhi – An Exceptional Personality:

Everyone knows Mahatma Gandhi for Non-violence but before his social influence, he was an ordinary person who believed use of non-violence to get rid of problems of a common man. He is known for peace today due to his great contribution in making India independent from England with movements in 1947. He brought Human Rights for common man and eliminated injustice which was involved due to caste system in the societies. He influenced the social in very different ways, let us have a light upon the same:

(a) Visionary Leader:

At the time of Salt Movement, nobody imagined that a simple movement can change the perspective of British Government ruling India at that time. Indians learned a lot and proceeded to fight for freedom from the British Rule using non-violence ways and ultimately success was achieved due to entire vision of great leader Mahatma Gandhi.

(b) Simplicity in Life:

Instead of being too rich to defeat British people with only ideas of non-violence, Mahatma Gandhi was too simple to wear only clothes made from spinning yarn. The servant leadership style was used as he was serving each common man in touch with him with full devotion. Before coming to India for freedom movements, he was known for his work in South Africa. It was proved by him that with the spirit of sacrifice for others, and movements, anybody can influence the rulers.

(c) Ethics and Values in Life:

The principles of Mahatma Gandhi even today inspire the Ministers, Bureaucrats and no doubt all common men to adopt ethics and values in life. He makes the people learn not to disobey the inner voice, in the face of pressure from outside. Due to his principles, ethics and values are still in the behaviour of Indian as well as the great personalities of the world being influenced from him.

(d) Never Forget the Tenets of Mahatma Gandhi:

If anybody wants to be great social influencer, then it is must to adopt the tenets of Mahatma Gandhi in life i.e. 1. Truth, 2. Non-violence, 3. Right Means and Right Ends, 4. Primacy of Duties over Right, 5. The Deed, not the Doer, 6. True Religion, 7. Non-possession, 8. Sacrifice and Service, and 9. Nonviolent Conflict Resolution

(e) Patriotism and Nationalism:

Each child in childhood in India, is taught the lessons of Patriotism and Nationalism with the stories of Mahatma Gandhi. His exclusive contribution in fighting movements during the British rule, cannot be forgotten and he is known today with his exceptional Gandhian Thinking on which basis, Bollywood even telecast a lot of movies.

No doubt, Today India is leading to establish true democracy with following his principles in life.

Hashtag #SushantWasMurdered:

It is true that everyone wants to be famous enough to influence others in this world. After the death of Sushant Rajput, a renowned Bollywood star, a hashtag trended on Twitter #SushantWasMurdered and people came on social media to demand justice in the case of Sushant. Various renowned personalities claim that there may be mastermind behind the death of Sushant. But the same personalities have lack of courage to come in the court and say something in front of all to disclose the mystery. Noone can easily challenge the judiciary in Democratic country not due to lack of freedom but due to presence of crime.

Whether everything is to gain popularity?

Even there are people who tweeted that the case of Sushant is being promoted to gain recognition, love, and make him popular enough. Will such popularity can work for someone? Yes, it can gain sentiments of people to come ahead for proper enforcement of law and it worked well in many earlier cases.

Alarming Problems affected Economy:

The new alarming problems affecting India are Politics, Drugs, Mafia, Nepotism, and Biasness in decisions on the basis of Social Influence. More popular the personality, more the social influence is created with the help of media including Social Media platforms. The CBI Police, Court interventions, Debates on Television Channels, and most important consuming valuable time of Bollywood personalities to solve this matter; lead to huge economic loss which cannot be measured easily.

Justice Matters a lot:

Can justice be so costly in a democratic country. How to expose a mastermind behind such deaths? The role of Mafia sometimes become more influential than the fair people’s role. Identifying the right one is very critical and also difficult. No one can imagine the growth of nexus of worst people in such cases. It is rightly said, “Our Lives Begin to End the Day We Become Silent About Things That Matter”. But it is also true that we cannot raise voice in every case for every one for supporting him to get justice. Isn’t it?

Who detect what and how?

The cases of money laundering are detected by Enforcement Directorate of concerned nation. The cases of murders or crimes are investigated by Police Authorities may be CBI or FBI. The Drugs related activities are exposed by different authorities like NCB in India. The decisions are made by Judiciary and implemented by Executives. The twist is that everyone is suspected even after successful decision after consuming months in the case. And the things led to social influence on social platforms and gaining of popularity by people involved in it.

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