In a family every single member has a role to play. The parents take care of the home and children. The children need their parents to feed them, protect them and educate them. They prepare them for life by sending them to school or collage. In turn, children follow the rules by their parents. They love and obey them. Only one plays one’s role correctly can there be a happy family.

India, our country, is our larger family, we Indians have a bond. We belong to the same country. Services like railways, roadways, airways, hospitals, telephone-communication, water supply, electricity supply and postal services are there to make life easy for us. In turn, it is the duty of every one of us to do our best for the country. You have to prepare yourself to be a good citizen. When you grow up and take up a profession you are expected to perform your duty to the best of your ability.

In a family when one member is sick, all the others suffer with him. Everyone likes to take care of the person who is unwell. Even when you are in perfect health, you are unhappy if your mother or father is suffering from bad health. Why is it so? It is because you feel for family members.

Our country is a large family. There is trouble somewhere or the other. Some times there are floods or famines. Sometimes there are major accidents. Diseases break out in some states. So what if your states are not affected?

The people suffering are your countrymen. They are the members of your large family. Don’t you have any feelings towards them?

Should you just change the channel of the television when you see such disasters and watch a movie?

Are you being a good member of the larger family?

Are you bothered about your countrymen?

You all recite the pledge `India is my country. I love my country.’ Have you ever thought what you mean by it?

Just like my mother, who brought me into this word, the country in which I am born is my mother. Just like my mother who gives me all that I need, India has given all that I require. This is what is expressed in the song `Vande Mataram’.

`India is my country. I love my country’. In a Sanskrit text it is said mother and motherland are greater than heaven! We live in this great land. Every one should love India. We should develop interest to know more and more about our country.

During operation Vijay at Kargil, each and every soldier fought bravely. They did not belong to Jammu and Kashmir.

Why did they lay down their lives to save Kargil?

What if they said that `Why should we sacrifice our lives? We are not Kashmir!’