Nepotism: The murderer of burgeoning talents.
India, the country of diverse customs, relations, food, ethnicity, linguistics espies the similarity in bracing its generations for the position and stance for they are undoubtedly tagged as unfit and inappropriate. The sudden demise of Bollywood actor Sushant Singh Rajput has once again not only set Bollywood tribe but every clan in an intense and vehement argument of nepotism. Nepotism is not merely a word but the deadliest abstraction for flowering talents.
” In a garden full of roses, a sunflower couldn’t bloom since it belongs to the contrasting clan”
How would this locus lead to a healthy competition for the society to grow? How would this lead to the self-realization of individual knacks’ for persistent improvement? Should someone be penalized on account of not having any association with the successful tribe of this country? Is it justified to set the success bar on account of the family name?
As a society, Indians have evolved and well transmuted themselves to the needs of technology, yet wistfully we are strained and gripped in a rope of nepotism. Let’s figure out the purposes and implications of having such a scenario.
Why does nepotism prevail in India?
Pre Independence, the throne of the kingdom was occupied by a dignitary belonging to the royal clan or any potentate from a state itself used to disown the authority. In either case, power relied on the royal family. Indians seem disinterested to unsubscribe themselves from this system still. Evidently, India being the largest democratic nation couldn’t process with this succor at the executive level, however, such a system finds its patches in other sectors whether it is politics, where simply adopted ” Gandhi ” surname would guarantee your success in bureaucracy or Bollywood sector.
The critical question is have we grown as a society where talent is supreme than ancestry? Nepotism is an aftermath of a long and rigorous process, that we all unknowingly go through since childhood where often we used to fall in a trap of favoritism within the family itself.
The quality that most of the Indians lack i.e., empowering and entrusting their kids right from childhood. Their willingness to be an eternal shadow of their kids proscribed them to implant and infuse self-dependence skills in their children. On being compared with some developed communities such as the USA, the UK a young lad will be abandoned by parents so that he becomes competent and efficient for upcoming challenges and hurdles in life. On the contrary, in India parents tend to forfeit and devote their whole lives for the happiness and prosperity of their child.
What shall be the implications of nepotism on the Indian Economy?
Nepotism poses threats to the economic advancements as it restricts the promotion of highly qualified and deserving candidates. There is no dearth of highly equipped and meriting nominees who may have higher education, upgraded skills, and work experience in the market, still, they are not remarked upon.
Nepotism unquestionably plays significant and substantial role in widening the radius of lawlessness and corruption in the state. There are various reports from all over the world such as Korea, Russia stating nepotism as a decelerating force for economic growth, and inviting stagnation in the country’s development. The research papers published by University College of International Management, Republic of Kosovo and Kazan Federal University, Kazan, Federation Russia elicits the destruction brought by nepotism not only to the economy but vandalizing structural virtues of the society by promulgating the feeling of antipathy amongst each other. By only favoring people of certain houses fabricates imbalance, inequity, and mistreatment in a society that may lead to grave and drastic results.
Let’s understand, this ” favoritism” is not only sabotaging an individual’s growth and innovations but repulsing the Indian Economy too. The implications of nepotism could lead to unfair and bias treatment and losses to the company’s performance and broaden up the horizon of corruption in an organization which certainly drops the nation’s GDP and affect its advancement rate.
References :
1.https://theprint.in/opinion/nepotistic-privilege-should-be-a-matter-of-social-shame-it-holds-India-back/455481/
2.https://www.indianfolk.com/nepotism-in-india/
3.https://www.huffingtonpost.in/amp/Amit-vaidya/nepotism-is-not-just-a-bollywood-problem_a_23037190/#aoh=15944439664186&referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com&_tf=From%20%251%24s
4.https://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/12/world/asia/12iht-letter12.html
5.https://edtimes.in/this-world-is-unfair-in-many-ways-nepotism-is-another-way-of-keeping-it-the-same/
6.https://www.researchgate.net/publication/282554991_Favouritism_and_Nepotism_in_an_Organization_Causes_and_Effects
7.http://cejsh.icm.edu.pl/cejsh/element/bwmeta1.element.desklight-e109ac7a-4f08-4ec0-8f84-12163a1261cd/c/ees_16_6_fulltext.pdf-2
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