Independence Day is around the corner. The entire media is gearing up for patriotic ferver which spews high decibels during this period. Politicians get ready to act as if they respect the heroes of our independence struggle and pay empty homages to them in the respectable precincts of the Parliament and elsewhere. We, ordinary citizens look forward to a day off and enjoy with our families... But has anyone ever thought "Are we really independent" in true sense. Is India really united as it claims? ...
Lot has changed in modern India, but we are still ruled by our ancient old beliefs, cultural divides, geographical divides, corruption, our chalta hai attitude, parochialism etc...
We are all disparate communities divided by religion,caste,sub-caste,geography (state) united only by the convenience offered by the deomocratic set up. If we take away democracy, rest assured we will start fighting within ourselves and seek our own statehood , much like what happened in Russia. We are ruled by corrupt politicians and administered by even worse government officials (Ramarithams) (as one of my co-blogger puts it). We(me included) have also become corrupt ourselves as we do not think twice bribing someone to get our work done...
After 50 years of independece we are debating bringing around a bill to curb corruption which is being met with stiff resistance and being watered down.... Sadly if Mahatma was alive today he would have probably felt India was perhaps much better off under foreign rule...
Happy Independence Day Fellow Citizens
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment