HAPPY INDEPENDENCE DAY !!!

[vikram chawla]

Today is 15 th of august…our Independence Day. In the last 62 years since India got independence, we have made strides in lot of areas but lot needs to be done to make our country a better place to live. I, like any other Indian have great dreams about the future of our country.

I dream of India:

Where there is peace.

Where there is no fear

Where people don’t look at each other with suspicion

Where there is education for all

Where there is no disease.

Where people care about each other

Where people have the best of the houses to live

Where people don’t have to live in pain

Where people are not afraid of rains flooding their houses

Where there is ample food for everyone

Where the farmers don’t commit suicides

Where there is safe drinking water.

Where people work as a team

Where there is no corruption

Where the elderly are respected

Where there is belief in GOD

A place which is a true paradise on earth

I wish all my dreams and the dreams of every other Indian come true. Every Indian just needs to do his bit to take India to greater heights. Let’s pledge today that we will do everything we can to make India a happy place for us and our future generation.

HAPPY INDEPENDENCE DAY TO ALL.

JAI HIND.

[bengup]

India celebrates its 63rd Independence Day on the 15th of August 2009. A vibrant democracy that it is today , it still remains a 'perennially developing' country (a near-synonym for 'underdeveloped'). The Independence Day in itself has become an annual ritual for our leaders to make high decibel speeches and ensure that we remember the contribution of the late Mahatmas, Nehrus and Ambedkars. Remember we will , Gandhi for disintegrating India and showering crores towards Pakistan at our expense thus firmly proving his craze to attain immortality; Nehru for his tactless haste in seeking UN's intervention during India's first war with Pakistan where our army was so close to taste ultimate victory; Ambedkar - possibly the most hurting- for leaving behind an acerbic legacy of 'Reservation in Education' on which our politicians feed and continually add their own versions of Reservation to ensure their political longevity. The Indian Independence Struggle could well be defined as the struggle to achieve 'political independence' and nothing else. Deep within its system , India is still a casteist nation. Economic disparity of the extreme sense further fuels discontent in its people. To add to the poor people's woes, our law-makers spend precious time arguing over feuds among the delectable Ambanis than debating the Education Bill or a permanent solution to the Bihar floods.

Such is the importance attributed to non-issues at the highest level, a taxi-union strike forces the govt. to give in and increase freight charges within 2 days but at the same time it can afford to waste 31 days of indecision over increasing the salaries of teachers in govt. colleges. A former Home Minister is accused of abetting murder of his own former associate. Prosecution of a certain Mulayam (disproportionate assets case) or Mayawati (same yaar) depends on their political affiliations and not on the merit of the case. The good old days of a People's President have been laid to rest with the entry of Mrs. Pratibha Patil who clearly perceives Presidency as Sharad Pawar's rakhi gift to her, something she will enjoy till her tenure ends - or she ends, whichever. Terrorism continues to engulf our country from all sides. Our problems on this front have only multiplied inspite of scoring stunning military wins over Pakistan in the last 5 decades. To compare India's CBI or RAW agencies to US' FBI or Israel's Mossad will be the most nasty joke on the eve of Independence Day.

Information Technology has been India's claim to fame in the 21st century. We keep churning out s/w engineers, coders & now MBAs too; year after year. But is there one weather forecast software or an Agricultural Manager that will help our poor farmers out when the rains fail them every year? Can we really claim that the technology our Armed Forces uses is at par with the best in the world? Do we really have the best Intelligence procurement officials in our Security Agencies? Doesn't it sound dispiriting when 10 Pakis could so easily infiltrate in our country through the sea-route and force their way in some of our prestigious hotels making a mockery of homeland security? We were attacked , fine , but who stopped us from retaliating? What came in the way of employing precision or surgical strikes inside Pakistan where we suspect (we're dead sure) terrorists having set up training camps?

Lathi-armed policemen, scamster politicians, sluggish bureaucracy, self-centred citizenry and corrupt 'everyone'; are reasons enough to not celebrate this Independence Day but to sit and ponder whether we can regroup and revitalize our system and its people so that we work towards a much stronger, secular, competent and independent society. Only then will we be able to justify the colourful words thrown at us by Nehru in his first Independence Day speech :
'....At the stroke of the midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom.....'

[pamujulamuralis]

you touched the very basic points, Keep up ur good work

[bengup]

ty,ty............................................. ..................

[shwetap]

Hi
A very happy INDEPENDENCE DAY to you too dear and ya we should proud of being Indian and try to make India proud by our efforts .

[prachi01]

.indians are emotional and old cultures.they believe in a tradition which is not going to take them anywhere. but indians dont understand this fact. they assume that the tradition which was strarted bythier ancestors should go on along with the coming generations. but they fail to understand the wide age gap and the advanement in technology as well as the thinkings of the youth. today's generation of energetic younsters are very career oriented and full of potential. if they do not have the correct way to climb their ladder of success, they opt for anti social elements and other things which are not ethical. so the success of india depends not only on the youth but also in the hands of the orthodox and old cultured guardians who force the the child to stay at home and do whatevertheir ancestors have done and are doing

[s.kashyap]

yes you said very true, every indian dreams to be india a peaceful country,,,but only dreaming will not help. every one should do something to achieve this dream, no matter how small contribution a person have, it will make difference on every step, people need to upgrade there thinking and must come forward with helping hand toward society.

[vikram chawla]

Certainly the old orthodox thinkings needs to change,,,
but the prime focus should be maintaining our traditions, cultures... and modernizing our thinkings...times are changing and even the orthodox people have changed for the better...

[roopam26jan]

its our responsibility to make our nation as we dream....well said buddy!!!

[probhushan]

right said bro ..!


we need a india that is free from all woes n worry and hitting the deck hard on the success chart