“Write Mind | Lohagad Became ‘Siya Point’ And A Society Lost Its Compass”, News 18, July 09, 2026
“Lohagad Fort has seen centuries of warfare. Maratha soldiers bled on its ramparts defending something larger than themselves. On June 18, 2026, it became the site of something altogether different. A man pushed to his death by the woman he was going to marry. A birthday trip. A cliff. A plan allegedly rehearsed four days earlier. Ketan Agarwal was 26. He had a family, a business, a future. Siya Goyal was 20. She had a boyfriend, a three-year financial plan, and a decision.
But nobody asked the question that actually matters. What kind of generation are we producing? This is not a question about Siya Goyal specifically. The courts will decide her fate. The investigation is ongoing, and guilt is for judges to determine, not columnists. This is a question about the cultural water that an entire generation has been swimming in, so long and so completely that they no longer notice it is there. We have raised a generation on a particular gospel. Individual desire is sacred. Commitment is negotiable. Inconvenience is intolerable. And if something, or someone, stands between you and what you want, the problem is theirs, not yours.
This is not Gen Z’s fault. It is their inheritance. And the inheritance has a panoply of architects. The screen replaced the elder. For centuries, moral instruction passed through the family, the guru, the community elder. Gen Z received it through an algorithm. And algorithms do not teach consequence. They teach engagement……..”
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The author Yuvraj Pokharna is indulging in hypocritical and cringeworthy stereotyping:
“This is not Gen Z’s fault. It is their inheritance. And the inheritance has a panoply of architects. The screen replaced the elder. For centuries, moral instruction passed through the family, the guru, the community elder. Gen Z received it through an algorithm. And algorithms do not teach consequence. They teach engagement.”
The whole article reeks of such self-indulgent unsubstantiated piousness.
At all times of history, criminal, narcissistic minds occur with certainty. These criminal minds do take advantage of current society’s technology, culture and laws to commit crimes. And paradigm shifts in technology creates an additional wrench – a section of people who have opposition and disdain to new changes, while at the same time opportunistic criminal minds take advantage of evolving features in commiting crimes.
It is worth investigating at what period in history, this culture of unsubstantiated, hypocritical, holier-than-thou sermonising became an overwhelming “feature” of Bhartiya civilization, but one side effect of this is what I call rampant “mahanitis syndrome”, where you want to appear महान or try to designate somebody महान by the aid of stereotyped moralizing, avoiding rigorous analysis. As per author, prior to Gen Z, the defining characteristics were notions of dharma, kartavya, paap. Really? May I also add satya, ahimsa, lobh, krodh, moh, maya? In fact this Mahanitis syndrome hypocrisy was exploited cynically by Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi to the hilt, and the sick Hindu populace of Bharat conferred him the title of “Mahatma” with no trace of irony. Unless you are careful and aware of more complete situation, Mahatma Gandhi’s writings infused with such piousness can overwhelm a credulous reader.
When faced with questions and allegations regarding missing funds, some Trust members and associated leaders have stated that “Lord Ram will take care of it” or that “Lord Ram himself will punish the thieves”. And it is unfortunate that many devotees can become speechless with this argument. Being creduluous to this kind of pious foolery will only weaken Hindus, just like this exploiter Gandhi did.
HinduPost publishing such stereotyped pedantic moralizing is basically a lost opportunity where more substantive, factual and corrective analysis can actually help its readers.