Happy Independence Day!!

Today is the day when every one of us recites “Jai Hind” and “Bharat Mata ki Jai”. Off course the day is very special, it’s 15^th August, the day when our folks and leaders finally snatched the freedom from the imperial colonisation of British. What is being termed as the strongest and the longest freedom struggle across the world finally came to we Indians on this day.

Today is 64^th Independence Day and as I look back only a year now that is 63^rd Independence Day in 2010, the year had been quite like a roller coaster. The population of 1.8 billion are conjuring the victory of Indian cricket team as the world number one team in Test later on went on to lift the world cup 2011 in April. Mary Kom won her 6^th world boxing championship, the Ace Shuttler Saina Nehwal went on to win commonwealth and then injury struck her that led her ranking slip to 6^th position. Indian National sport Hockey failed to inspire both the crowd and the governing authorities and now they persist with diminishing existence. This year, Indian football team yet again failed to surpass the rounds to place themselves in the qualifiers for the World Cup 2014. Our boxer, Vijender Singh continued the good show and good hope for the next year Olympic at London. And 2 days before the eve of Independence Day, Indian Cricket team surrendered the number one ranking to England on the home soil of the Cricket; nothing can get worse than this!   

Terrorist activities today give no perplexed state as we have learned to live or rather we are now habituating to survive with it. Corruption is at peak, Commonwealth Games in Delhi in October 2010, or 2G spectrum, we the people have no official records what has been stolen on the name of taxes! Political gimmick is refraining from development and we just cannot find a handful of cabinets that are un-corrupt. Each day a new rule is being imposed or being made by us, but we are resilient by force. I remember a line from the movie “Rang De Basanti”- ab bhi jiska khoon na khaula, khoon nahi woh pani hai, jo desh ke kaam na aaye, woh bekar jawaani hai”. Currently, India is the youngest country, not in terms of heritage and culture (which is the oldest) but in terms of having the largest population of youth. I being an individual, just moving ahead with a tag of “desh ka bhavishya- future of the country”, but what have I contributed to the nation? That is the question, which I believe most of the youth would be hiding themselves to answer.

Just become a human today, or at least an Indian today forgetting the religion you follow, caste you belong to, community you refer to, and creed you believe in. Be Indian today and spread the much needed communal harmony. 

Few things need to be change, and what are those things? We have to decide, we can decide either to let what is happening, that we say is not acceptable but we do without remittance and resistance, or to become the change to make a better future, However, the day is indeed special, please do not spend it in a cafe sitting with friends, but plan out to make a useful contribution to the nation. Happy Independence to everyone!!