Are we independent?
When gave us the hope of a ‘Swaraj’ that meant self-rule, a rule for Indian citizens by Indian citizens according to Indian traditions. We are independent today, the word comes from independence, which means free from every limitation, all kind of regulations and controls from the powers those keep us with in discipline. We are independent from every discipline and rules today, we really have no value for rules or discipline whatsoever those make a nation great or ordinary.
To be very frank we do not know the real meaning of self-rule and accepted independence in its true value, we do not want to follow even the smallest of rules of regulations of the law because we are truly independent. But, who is responsible for teaching us this lawless behavior? A child is not born to behave against the rules, he in fact learns every thing what he see his elders doing. We are doing what our leaders are teaching us today. They have no respect foe law and consider themselves above every thing so what is wrong if citizens of this country are following their leaders. Leaders are supposed to lead us in every field.
Youth is the hope of our nation
True, youth is the hope of any nation but many of them are under the bad habits, which they learn seeing their leaders doing so shamelessly. This has done irreparable harm for this country and unless they learn to live under strict control and rule of law, there is no way this country could avoid a total disaster.
We gained a little but lost a lot
There should be absolutely no doubts or controversies about the gains our country has secured during the last sixty-five years but there are some bigger changes in our society, which pull us back. The corruption, crime, deaths due to hunger, crimes against women, unemployment and disrespect towards law and order are the order of the day. Difference between the casts is on the rise, which was supposed to eradicate with in a stipulated period.
Government is the main culprit
Don’t you think our governments have done nothing but helped increase the system of cast, creed and religion based differences in our society? They give us a slogan to eradicate the cast system and on the other hand the y require us to write us our surname and cast while filling any forms related to government work, job, admission in any institutes or whatever. That is not going to help the cause of getting rid from this evil of cast and not to forget the vote bank based politics.
We are living based on credit
We used to think in different terms as far credit was concerned, we thought this was a burden on us as long as we had the credit not repaid. Now credit is the way of life, we can get it as much and as fast as we wish. As a matter fact any one who has the slightest of earning can go for a credit-card and spend as much as he wish without thinking for ways to repay them. We need a car, house and other luxury items even before we have paid the loan we had taken for our education. Life is full of burden crying under the loans we acquired for needed and unneeded items.
We have become bigger than elders
Most people have lost the old ways of paying respects to elders because we have converted to western culture up to a great extent that permits us to behave shabbily or rudely with mother, father or even more so with grand parents because using uncultured is culture of the day. We used to talk with respect with elders and now we expect them to talk with respect while they talking with us.
We are far more independent today. We have forgotten the stories, which these grandparents used to recite for us while we were younger and the walk we used to go for with our fingers in their hands or we on their laps. These all are stories of past. Today there are no fairy tails or tellers in the age of nuclear families. Children are watching cartoon networks and behaving like cartoons themselves. New television characters have replaced the old story-characters and making their own effects on new generation today
However, we have not taking into account that out door games used to help develop a sense of cooperation and fitness in children while these video games are making them lazier. The games the kids played in a playground helped them developing the art of leadership while the video games are affecting their brains adversely and making them lonely besides the obesity is the worst effect while sitting playing these games without any physical effort.
However, no one is worried we are more independent today. More people are coming to stay in cities where they think there are better job opportunities and living in hutments far worse than their own villages with lot more respect and natural resources. However, they understand it too late while they loose their properties and fields back home and left with no option but rickshaw-pulling, collecting garbage or becoming labor on daily wages basis. They never hear the sounds of birds, their way of life.
What is the use of such a campaign?
If revenue earned through liquor and tobacco is the main income of our central government then what is the use of state run campaigns against these items on television? I would prefer a poorer India but no way that people walking on the roads under the influence of liquor on the roads doing evil things. However, our government that speaks so much against liquor in public invents new ways to generate more revenue through this mother of evil without ever thinking about its responsibility.
What is the use of making lectures against cast and creed or differences in society when the representatives of government themselves are most responsible of dividing the nation into small sections for the sake of vote bank politics. We can see indecency in the behavior of politicians sitting and making big lectures about casts etc. in the different houses but when it comes to implementing the same they find themselves in a different mode and leave no stone unturned to take advantage of cast and creed for their own benefit.
Alright we are independent but we are not happy
However, we need another fight against such an independence that we are enjoying today because so much of independence has made us so corrupted and taken at such a point that we cannot turnaround without a major action. I am sure the freedom fighters never thought that our country would be in such corrupt hands once we got our so-called independence, which allows them to loot them the nation so shamelessly without any fear of being ever punished for the same.
We were in a better position as far as cast extra is concerned because we were not as divided pre independence based on cast and religion as we are today, now every matter is decided taking cast and religion into account. People including men and women who did their best and even sacrificed their lives for the sake of independence for this country might never have thought in their wildest of dreams that the women one day would not dare to go out of their houses due to fear of unsocial elements in our own society. This is not the independence they might have had the dream of and looking for ourselves.
We have become free from the grip of foreigners but bigger slaves of unwanted system and customs. We can look for a Pizza coming faster than an ambulance, where car loan is available on 7% and education loan for 12%. An Olympic bronze medalist gets Rs. Fifty millions and the one who sacrifices his life fighting for safety of citizens of the country gets mere few thousands. Where 20 million youngsters can wait for days for audition for a dance or song reality show but none turns up on a polling booth. However, we are independent and can do what we like in the name of independence. I wish you a Happy and real Independence my fellow countrymen.