15th
August, 1947: Faces glowed with smiles, people danced with happiness. They were
proud; they were citizens of the Independent India after all, they were proud
to be citizens of the country which gave them so much, they were proud to hoist
the tri-color, proud to sing Jana Gana Mana, which spread a smile on
their faces each time they sang it. The only religion was Nationalism, the Gods
were the freedom fighters, and the National Anthem was the bhajan*, with
pride the Prasad**. They had never experienced this emotion, this emotion
of being proud Indians, this emotion of hoisting the National flag and singing
the song they longed to sing. The lamp of nationalism glowed bright red.
15th
August, 2016: “Urgh. It’s Independence Day. The same boring National Anthem.
Can’t we sing One Direction’s Best Song Ever instead? This song is so boring. And
then those three colors, I feel so ponderous when I look at them! Why does this
day even exist? We have the same thing always, that stupid national anthem,
those three colors are shown, some people do some march past to show their
“pride”. What pride? What has this country given to us? Apart from bloody roti
subji, horrible history, roads on which even a mouse falls, stupid
politicians, what are we? A cultured, developing country? I am just waiting to
grow up. Then I will leave this dreaded nation and go the heaven of USA.” This
would be an extract from the diary of a person of today. Apart from insulting
this country of ours, we don’t even know two plus two. The lamp of nationalism
has been extinguished long back.
I just mean
to give a small message through this article, don’t celebrate Independence Day
just for the sake of it, show some respect to this beautiful country of ours.
Show that pride our ancestors had. Let the lamp of nationalism light again. Let
the pride come back again. Let us be proud Indians, and long to escape to the “heaven”
of USA. Let’s make this lovely country of ours better than heaven!
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*bhajan- devotional song
**prasad- offerings of God
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