Do or die is an old saying, 2009 dictates we must ‘do and just do it’!
In my view, we are still slaves to poverty, over-population, unemployment, communalism, regionalism, intolerance and vested interests. You guys must be wondering where is corruption in this list? Don’t be surprised, I do not see corruption as an issue at all, but a corrupt mind set, which is the root of all corruption.
For us Independence means throwing our household garbage outside in the vicinity, abusing our natural resources, showing uncultured & indecent programs on national television, going on rampaging everywhere for whatever cause, and presenting our resilient side when terrorists attack us. Our independent media now does not believe in presenting the news & happenings but ‘reports’ even sensitive issues with all sensationalism (we all have seen ‘reality show’ of Prince & Arushi).
Two principles that got us our national freedom – Truth & Non-Violence, too have different meanings in the current context. Truth now needs gluttony of One Crore rupees to come out. We just do not seem to agree on anything more – anything and everything can lead to agitation – crowd and chaos have become more important than the cause itself. Greater the loss of lives and property, bigger the cause. The scenes of burnt buses and blocked trains have replaced the black and white videos of crowd peacefully marching towards Dandi! The angry young man has been replaced by an angry
Over a period of 62 years, we have not valued our freedom but time and again we have taken its own meaning as per our suitability. The problem is that we have become overly complacent. We are happy about our achievements and we should be, but we should also understand our true potential.
We take immense pride in the facts that
We celebrate first Olympic gold in over 100 years… with due respect to over 1 billion people in
The world is changing much faster than what we feel it is & if we continue to sit on our past laurels, very soon we would disappear in the pages of history. It’s high time that we start picturing the larger perspective rather than being satisfied with our own small world.
Ask people about their passion and most of the answers point that cinema and cricket rule the arena. For the majority of us, nationalism is restricted to standing while the National Anthem is played before our favourite movies start. But now is the time for everything else to take the back seat, and Nationalism to emerge as people’s new passion. The feeling associated with our national symbols - unfurling of the Tricolour and the melody of our National Anthem must continue to play in our mind and soul throughout, and not only during our national days. Nationalism must consume our entire nation. August 15 must mean more to us than a day for encashing ‘paanch din Mahabachat ke’.
A popular channel aired a spoof that showed a politician blaming everything under the sun on ‘foreign hand’. And very rightly so too… while we are all busy worrying over involvement of the videshi haath in domestic affairs – in my view, the enemy ‘within each of us’ poses a bigger threat. The urge within us to check out how Rakhi Sawant looks in her latest item number wins over the necessity to face issues that are staring at us in the face. Inclination towards all things trivial (Numero uno slot bagged by gossip) and a tendency to procrastinate together gives birth to an indifferent attitude that plagues all of us. We fight amongst our fellow beings on the basis on region & religion, but are not interested to challenge our biggest enemy – “Our indifferent Attitude!”
We must first get rid of our ‘chalta hai’ attitude and start looking for fool-proof measures. We do not need martyrs, we needn’t continue to glorify the term ‘shaheed’. We have to think above ‘to kill or get killed’, and look for some constructive measures. We need numerous clones of negotiators like Mahatma Gandhi and Sardar Patel who rose above self, keeping in mind the larger interest of our nation. We no more need current politicians who trade MPs, and we certainly need to do away with such MPs who are ready to be traded.
The Revolt of 1857 was not a success as it lacked the unity. It kept on repeating and hence British could rule
Something similar stands for our nation, and the foundation here is none other that “We the people” of
Let’s make this 63rd Independence Day of our nation a bit more worthwhile…