It is 23.21 hrs in my laptop clock and its just little more than half an hour left for our independence day. Well it is already 15th August in India 4 hours ago, but irony is that this is my second independence day in our erstwhile master's land. Yes I am in Britain. Feeling it really hard to add 'Great' in front of it.
Its a mixed feeling to be here on this day. Sometimes you feel agitated and angry looking around and thinking that we were ruled by them!!! And sometimes you just feel proud that today you are here and they don't like you !! Not because that you have a shade different, but because you have a shade different and to make it worse you can also do their job better and may be tomorrow only you can do that job.
Definitely I feel proud to be an Indian.But can we put 'Great' in front of our country's name? For some may be yes and for some may be no or never. I heard it somewhere 'Koi Desh Mahan nahi hota. Usse Mahan banana Padta hai' (No country is great .You have to make it Great). Hmm sounds filmy (and it is). But I believe every country is great. Every country has some inherent culture which make it different and great.
28 states and their very little commonalities and cultures , 1652 mother tongues and no national language , largest democracy and a very strong army, 8 religions and secular nation, partitioned to carve out a Muslim state and second largest Muslim population, inquisitive and interfering but always ready to help neighbours, big families and still united,50+ festivals celebrated in a year with or without global recession. The list is huge and enough to make my country Great.
But when traffic police stops me for papers and I give him 50 Rs paper, when I shout and abuse a fellow driver when he is honking at a red light, when I am scared to see a police inspector even though I haven't even thought of doing something wrong, when a servant bows in front of me because I was lucky to be born in a good family- I just feel if there is some foreigner spending his independence day in my country , he will also not use the word 'Great' for my country.And I will not blame him..kyonki desh ko 'aur' mahan banana padta hai.
No clue how to do that. But definitely as Gandhi said 'Be the change you want". Let start it somewhere within us. It is 12 minutes past midnight in Great Britain and is my Great India's independence day, and of course my first blog. A NEW START......Jai Hind
Its a mixed feeling to be here on this day. Sometimes you feel agitated and angry looking around and thinking that we were ruled by them!!! And sometimes you just feel proud that today you are here and they don't like you !! Not because that you have a shade different, but because you have a shade different and to make it worse you can also do their job better and may be tomorrow only you can do that job.
Definitely I feel proud to be an Indian.But can we put 'Great' in front of our country's name? For some may be yes and for some may be no or never. I heard it somewhere 'Koi Desh Mahan nahi hota. Usse Mahan banana Padta hai' (No country is great .You have to make it Great). Hmm sounds filmy (and it is). But I believe every country is great. Every country has some inherent culture which make it different and great.
28 states and their very little commonalities and cultures , 1652 mother tongues and no national language , largest democracy and a very strong army, 8 religions and secular nation, partitioned to carve out a Muslim state and second largest Muslim population, inquisitive and interfering but always ready to help neighbours, big families and still united,50+ festivals celebrated in a year with or without global recession. The list is huge and enough to make my country Great.
But when traffic police stops me for papers and I give him 50 Rs paper, when I shout and abuse a fellow driver when he is honking at a red light, when I am scared to see a police inspector even though I haven't even thought of doing something wrong, when a servant bows in front of me because I was lucky to be born in a good family- I just feel if there is some foreigner spending his independence day in my country , he will also not use the word 'Great' for my country.And I will not blame him..kyonki desh ko 'aur' mahan banana padta hai.
No clue how to do that. But definitely as Gandhi said 'Be the change you want". Let start it somewhere within us. It is 12 minutes past midnight in Great Britain and is my Great India's independence day, and of course my first blog. A NEW START......Jai Hind
