The March

I attended an event know as "The March" organized by Art of Living Foundation at Parliament street on 1st March 2009 . The whole motive behind organizing such an event was to energize the youngsters and reiterate about the power they have them to change the society . It was mainly targeted to root out deadly evils from society like terrorism and corruption .
More than 2 weeks after the event I would like to share my take on the event and its post effect since there has been decent time for me to analyze the aftermaths of it .
First of all Kudos to the organizers for coming up with idea but I have few suggestions which I feel could have been taken care on the Dday . Here is my List ...

1.The Poster which was distributed had the March predominantly written all over but the basic theme which was about getting rid of corruption , Terrorism were written comparatively in smaller fonts which was hardly visible if we are seeing from a distance . So while we marched from Parliament street to India Gate and people tried displaying to the roadside Public traveling in vehicles it was hardly visible to them what was it all about . They were curious to know what was happening but couldn't actually make much out of it.
2. Big Banners at the starting and middle in the hands of people would have helped in spreading the message
3.At the stage the Photo of Gandhiji or any of the great Indian Freedom Fighters should have also been there to inspire us and also it would have shown our respect for them
4.Few Indian Flags would have also been distributed which people would have waved while we were listening to speeches and also while doing march .
5.When we reached India Gate there was no clear cut mandate given to people as what we need to do there .What I thought probably could have been done was that volunteers should have been given task to educate the people present at India Gate the importance of casting their vote .If one of the volunteers would have spoken to 5 people then it would have broadened our base and our message would also have reached to much wider audience .
6.Finally at the end of speeches and apart from pledge we should have set list of action items which we wud be concentrating on and we plan to meet tentatively in say 3months .This way the volunteers would have felt more responsible and felt more accountable to society

Now 2 weeks after attending the event I feel that the euphoria and pledge we had taken on the day has faded to a larger extent . The sustainability of such a moment is very important if we really want to march ahead as a nation by wiping out the deep rooted evils of society which I feel is currently missing here . Hence I urge the March community to fix some kind of goals and action items to ensure that we have path to trod along rather then meeting someday and then diverging to our own ways .