63 years of building the largest democracy on planet .... and at the 64th Independence Day one wonders where is India .... What has India become in these 63 years .... Where do we stand right now ... ????
Thousands of Known and unknown souls gave their lives for this land .History books fill us with pride of stories of great Heroes and the tales of honour ,valour and self sacrifice . Singing the national anthem and hearing "Vande Mataram" echoes installs a deep sense of Nationalism in all of us .....
BUT is this really that India for which so many men embraced death ? Look at India today .. It is plagued by corruption in every single inch of it ... Indian Constitution is believed to be writen incorporating the best points from all other constituencies of the World .... It today looks like an wonderfull recipe of hell .... Poverty is ripping this nation apart .... every minute 5 children are dying in India because of Hunger ..... Poverty however has given rise to a new class of trade named "oppurtunism" .... Looking around we can see every man taking advantage of every single situation and you really cant blame them ....This country has ten crores of unemployed young men looking for a way to hold on to life . There is absolute no social security and Life in India is nothing short of War ..... the gulf between rich and poor grows deeper and deeper and the middle class men falls in the clutches of something known as "morality" which prevents them from being the bad guys but finds them in a situation worse than them ..... Humanity takes a back seat in India where the question of ethics is defined by money ......the situation is so worse that even a human womb is "rented" and its a prospering business in India .... The constitution of India has guaranteed freedom for every citizen . .. This however has given another weapon in the hand of Political parties like Shiv Sena and TMC who feel themselves to be free from the rule of law and do what ever they want ...... Maoism , the biggest threat of India are claiming civilian lives everyday .... A child of 8 years is made to write "Ami CPIM kori na" in front of her fathers dead body to be allowed to cremate it ....and poltical parties like TMC proudly opposes fighting the maoists .... Recently a mother sold her child for 30000 Rupees ....
Can we really blame her selling her child ? Can we ask for ethics from a person on the brink of death by starvation ? Thousands of the Maoists kill not by choice but by desperation ... Is killing to save ones life right ? Can we expect a person to follow the rules of society in face of such poverty ? Is an act considered as crime if its done for the right cause ? Whom do we blame for this situation ... The society ? India ? Whom do we punish for crimes done for a just cause ?
What has India become ??? or rather what is India going to become at this rate ???? The only image that comes to mind is an abondoned battlefield with scavengers desperately searching for food ..... Scavengers like Dow Chemicals who kill 25000 people in Bhopal and pay 500 rupees for Indian Life ...
Can this be changed ?? Can we , the so called "future of India" be different ?? Can we be pragmatic enough to start a new beginning ? Can we make a choice of being honest even if we are given a chance to be dishonest ? Can we not take the oppurtunity to profit in the name "Morality" ? If we cant..... only a abondoned battlefield of dead hopes that once freed India remain .....
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