Work 
By MOHAN KRISHNAMURTHY
The day starts with news of people being killed, terror attacks, suicide bombers, war and violence.
Our world has seen enough of wars and the loss of the most valuable of God's creation's - human beings.
Whether it is war for an ideology, religion or for rescuing the motherland, war for any cause has left us only with losses. Nothing significant has ever been gained by a war.
We are talking about young men joining terror groups drawn by great speeches, well written articles or by watching repeatedly the videos of the killing of their own people.
What is the reason for such a potential energy, the youth, being attracted to these philosophies that leave us with a negative balance sheet?
Is there any way this huge youth potential can be used for the betterment of the world? What stops them from converting their raw energy to great invention, discovery, or for a good cause for mankind?
One reason is hero worship for the people who are behind the killings of people. Posters, banners and statues are made to glorify these heroes whose contribution to the society is death.
Of course, every terror group has a goal, no doubt. Whether it's an explicit goal or a hidden agenda, the dying soldier in the warfront never comes to know till his death. And after his death, it does not make any sense at all.
Men psychologically want to be associated with a group, a sect, a religion or an ideology. You may find it difficult to see a person with a neutral view. This strong view of an individual is capitalised on by anti-humanity groups and hence a potential young man turns out a terrorist.
He is called a martyr, a hero or a soldier. He is taught various mechanisms of war. He learns how to fight bare-handed, to use machine guns, missiles and swords. He learns to make bombs and often he is prepared to become a human-bomb, to sacrifice his life for the goal or ideology he is associated with.
If you look at the roots, a child from a family that believes in strong relationship, bonding among the family members, backed by a good education, contributions from his teachers and peer groups, becomes a great citizen, serving his society and country in a positive way.
Where the family values are not sound, differences among the parents leave gaps in which the children look out for support, inspiration and guidance.
When teachers work only for the salaries they get and are not keen to convert the young children into law-abiding citizens and the peer-groups merely misguide the child, he grows up to become a terrorist.
When a son comes home late, his father should be keen to know where he was.
Was he spending his time among right company, was he at the university, or getting into drugs?
While a stick may not control or change his son's attitude, a non-intrusive close watch on his behavior will definitely stop him from getting into wrong company.
A father has to play a role of a good friend and then the son starts sharing anything and everything that happens in his life. The generation gap and its barriers are broken.
The same is applicable for schools, colleges and universities. Let the education system be designed in a way that triggers interest among the children, makes learning fun.
Let the child grow up with what he likes to do. Let it be like those sweet pills that has medicine inside, but child loves to eat them. Let the kids not be stunned with a massive volume of studies, huge piles of homework and too strict an attitude from the teachers.
Let the teachers treat teaching as a service to the society and not merely a salaried job. Let them work towards making these young plants grow into law-biding, socially aware, humanity-filled trees.
If this happens, a day will come, when children love to go to school, spend time with their teachers and happy to be back home early to spend their evenings with their loving parents.
The root cause of terrorism is the erosion of family values and commercialisation of education.
Let's change it today, so that we can see a beautiful tomorrow.