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A country with over three-quarters of its population being young, on 26^th January, 2010, turned 60 years as a YOUNG and sovereign nation. But what if the youth of this nation itself were a country? What if the ‘fundas’ of the young took the place of our fundamentals rights, and what if it was ‘for the young, by the young and to the young?’

How younger would have THAT 60 year-old sovereign nation been?

Right to Equality

“There’s always a cold war between the ‘front-benchers’ and the ‘back-benchers’ in our class,” says Srikanth Mangipudi, a EEE student of CVR college of Engineering. Well, this is just a swanky version of the nerd-punk fights. None of them consider the other clan to be each other’s equals! This is when the ‘Ri8 to equality’ (Well, it’s a free nation even for the spellings!) comes in. In Youngistan, one might as well see an all-pierced-gone-gothic girl doing math along with a spectacled-bookwormish nerd!

And the best part would be that one would never ever say, “I got the toughest set this time,” as Srinivas Kamesh did after battling his Power Systems paper this externals. This is because, as per the ‘ri8,’ there’d simply be no sets at all!

For Attendance, To Attendence, By Attendance? Credit: Wording Noise

Right to Freedom

The classes would be chaotic no more; the teachers wouldn’t have to shell out salaries in appointing a personal psychotherapist, and even the class aggregate would shoot up drastically! Sounds utopian? Well, not in Youngistan! Here, the rule of 75 per cent attendance wouldn’t exist at all!  “Of course the 75 per cent attendance thing is curbing our right to freedom!” cries out Parvathi, an Hons. Student from Bhavan’s Degree College, on being asked if this is the case. But in Youngistan, the grumbling bunches who take to disturbing the class, as a revolt of their ‘imprisonment,’ are free-birds, and so are the ones who are REALLY interested the lectures. One can feel free to fly either side.

Right to Freedom from Exploitation

On being asked how many fundamental rights the citizens of India have, the whole number line was emptied. “With respect to what?” Vamsi Krishna, a third year student of CVR College of Engineering, counter-questioned. “I suppose it is seven,” guessed Snigdha Ravali Kanchi, a fourth year student of GNITS. And she was the only one who came the closest to giving the right answer before she googled it and corrected her answer to six. Considering that THIS is the situation, the right to freedom from exploitation in Youngistan would not be IN the constitution, but it’d be FOR the constitution; to protect the constitution itself from a little too boisterously free country!

Youngistan's Very Own Google. Credit: Wording Noise

Right to Freedom of Religion

To all of Youngistan, there’s one favorite line. “Music is my religion,” Karthik reiterates the same. “Life without music is like being deaf,” he adds. The riots, if any, rage only in the concerts. Each genre of music is a belief; a creed. And this phenomenon is too rampant to curb it down. In Youngistan, the right to religion brings people together than creating differences.

Cultural and Educational Rights

Well, empowering the Youngistan with educational rights might be a blessing-in-disguise to someone else too. The spectrum series All-In-Ones might as well cruise past Google for the client base it’d have! And the cultural rights would pave way for new genres of the already hybrid culture of the young. This would only mean more colours, more celebrations and best of all, more holidays!

Right to Constitutional Remedies

“Just because we were given holidays for bandh declared by someone, it is not justified to conduct classes even on Sundays!” opines Sowmya, a third year B.Com Honors student of Bhavan’s Degree College. “We feel imprisoned as the college goes on till 4:30 or 5 o’ clock in the evening. This is not fair at all!” laments Shailaja, a third year student of the same college. Had it only been Youngistan, this could have been a reason enough to file a case in a court of law for violation of your right to freedom!

A Youngistan might never happen but at least, one, won’t hopefully fumble when someone asks about the fundamental rights this time, which was the purpose of penning this zany article.

Belated Republic day wishes to all the readers!