Independence

This one is from my FB notes.

My first note on independence day, guess this is azaadi from "no notes in fb".

I guess every year on independence day we have the same question "are we really free??"

I always hate such questions so here goes the reason for that.

For a country which was said to disintegrate within a decade by "experts" and was said to have a civil war in its first decade of independence, we have come a long way. 63 years for a country with a great diversity where the tastes in food vary every 50 kms and the dialect changes almost every 100 kms is not a joke. Its a literal color chart from Kashmir to Kanyakumari (well it should be Indira point which is the southernmost point but K and K rhyme :P).For a country growing in great numbers there can be a few skirmishes here and there after all we dont exist in an Ideal state. We talk about the suffering on the poor people on fb and blogger and blame the state for it but have we ever given a thought to doing something about it? Talking about riots, where dont they take place. all we can do is try to stop them and if the government tries to do this then it is termed as government atrocities.

The independence day is not for us to blame the government on its shortfalls and wrongdoings, its for us to honor the men and women who laid down their lives for us to be free.

ets look at other countries who attained freedom at the same time.

Pakistan- need i say anything about them. they cancelled their celebrations because of the massive flooding in the whole country.They got divided again in '71

Sri lanka - they just had a civil war

The progress we attained was not expected from us but we did it.

So instead of cursing the government we should respect our freedom and the people who fought for it and also those who ensured that we stayed together as a country.

Are we Free?? Yes we are. The PM just said that the Media and Securities are the two pillars of freedom and where there is unbiased media there is freedom.