“The young will have to be politically aware. They must ask questions.” Kamal Haasan expressed his stand on the ongoing the Citizenship Amendment Act protests.
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00:00The young will have to be politically aware and be politicians and there's nothing wrong with it.
00:08You make it sound like infradig and that is scholarly, this is omnipresence.
00:15Politics is omnipresent in their life and it affects it.
00:31It's so unfortunate that these people when they were young,
00:36those in power have done exactly the same thing.
00:40They have raised their voice.
00:42The young will have to be politically aware and be politicians
00:48and there's nothing wrong with it.
00:50You make it sound like infradig and that is scholarly, this is omnipresence.
00:57Politics is omnipresent in their life and it affects it.
01:00They must understand it, they must question it
01:03and they must have cognizance of politics and they must ask those questions
01:07and these questions when stifled, then democracy is in dangerous ICU.
01:18They have spread the fear.
01:22It is not that they are not willing, they are concerned
01:26because most voices have been stifled.
01:29Let me come to my Tamil Nadu.
01:31Was it not a pertinent question and a pertinent agitation in Toothkudi?
01:36How was it contained?
01:38Where was the dialogue?
01:40Did they receive the petition?
01:42Instead they sent the police.
01:44Much before the violence erupted.
01:46So, these kind of precedences makes them very worried.
01:52It makes a journalist like you worried when you shoot dead a journalist.
01:58It's a warning.
02:00We are not connected to it as a thing.
02:03But what have we done about it?
02:05It's just forgotten.
02:07And more and more such incidents happen.
02:09You don't have to be only a student to raise the question
02:12and you don't have to be an intramural student to voice for them.
02:20I am a student, a permanent student in this society
02:24and in my chosen field, in any field.
02:27It's not a humility that makes me stay.
02:31Pragmatism tells me that I'll have to continue learning.
02:35So, I am a student and I will voice for them.
02:39In the right way, in the right direction.
02:42Our fight will be linear and towards a legal solution to it
02:48not by what they probably think will be best course.
02:57Let this rise and then we'll put it down
03:00and we'll say it's a law and order situation.