'Indi'-Pendence Day!

Hello people..:) my fingers were itching since yesterday to pen down something. The facebook was full of independence day pictures,wishes etc and etc. Even I updated my coverpage with that picture of the Indian flag which was hoisted in the year 1947. And twitter was trending with a hastag called “twitterin1947” what an idea sirji! There were so many amazing and creative tweets from various people from India and Pakistan. Yes, hope everyone does remember that the nation which is our biggest enemy today and a neighbour was part of this whole land called India. And freedom came with the partition of this one land. They divided us on the basis of religion, one religion here one there. As everyone has learnt in their history textbooks it was a mess. I wont repeat the same things again which the history textbooks have told you till now.

I just want to express what I am feeling on this day 15th August 2012. The 65th independence day of our nation. And since yesterday I am feeling that urge of patriotism. Since the yesterday’s morning I am singing patriotic songs and my classmates made fun of mine. Maybe because of my “not so good” voice. :D whatever, one of them even said that “patriotism does not come by singing patriotic songs. It should come from heart” I said ok now please repeat this sentence  in our Indian language for me..they tried but words like “heart” still came in our ruler’s language, English. You will also say that even I am writing with that ruler’s or coloniser’s language. But to be frank the language has got into our lives so much that if I had written this post in some Indian language I am sure many would either find it difficult to read it or just would not care to read because its in “local” language.

That reminds me about our attitude towards everything that we call “local”. Every time we talk about this country we complain. We complain about its politics, the corruption existing in it, we complain about the reservations system, the demerits of it, we complain about the slow Internet, the late coming trains, the oily food, the filthy places and you must be better knowing what other things we complain about. I don't say that we should not but if you cant do anything to change it don't just complain about it. That is what I feel.

And the most important thing about this generation is that they just see the “filthy” side of this country. No one has time to praise its cultural heritage, the family values we inculcate, the biodiversity which we have, the largest democracy which we run,the glorifying bollywood industry we have and so many other things. If you look a bit closer you will find many amazing things about this country. You just need to have better eyes. And only if we see the good things we will have a better approach to change the bad things which exist. Or else after some years our kids would start thinking that we live in a country that’s “bad”. Let’s not ignore the realities but lets also not ignore the beauty. Now you will say that what is the use if you feel patriotic on just one day and then forget about it the next day. But every Indian has the right to be patriotic, feel good on this day. Because other days we just complain about this country but at least on this day we would sing of its glory.  Lets take pride in being what we are. The Indians. Hindustani..Bhartiya! Jai Hind! Happy Independence Day! J