When I woke up on the afternoon of 15th august the flag was already hoisted at red fort, the national anthem already sung and host of patriotic movies were being screened on different channels. When I saw the video on a news channel I saw a smile on our prime minister's face when he was hoisting the flag, I'm not sure if he is happy because "HE" is hoisting the flag or because Indian flag is flying high, I am not questioning his patriotism but I am just thinking how many of us think in the second way. When Nehru hoisted the tricolour on 15th of august 1947 he was happy because the tricolour is being hoisted, but not because he was doing it. Our ancestors have given life and blood to see this day, few were unlucky and a few remained to see this day, the start point of we becoming our own masters. Its hard to imagine of those people who refused to hurt anyone to achieve their goal but in turn lost their life, its hard to imagine about a man who led these people, the man who started an experiment of non violence and was successful in it , a man whose words made millions to stand against a mighty empire. They all had had to pay a big prize, they did it only because they wanted us to breathe freely .
Today we are free to vote for any one and ironically our freedom is far stretched so the person who is voted to power is also free to work or abstain from working. We are free to defecate anywhere so millions of them use rail tracks as their toilets, we are free to sleep anywhere so millions of them sleep on footpath and authorities are free to rehabilitate them or to let them rot on footpath. The western world which once looked down upon India has become role model for many of us, I do believe that we need to learn a lot from the western world in terms of development but many of us blindly believe that westernization is modernization. We are blindly obsessed with western culture, a man in jeans is more respected than a man wearing dhoti, we have forgotten that mahatma used to wear just a dhoti, a journalist like Barkha Dutt is more interested in Obama's beer party than iftar party hosted by Vajpayee. People are coming in support of the gay rights just because western world has adopted it, people who are supporting gay rights say "look at canada, gay marriages are legal over there", I say look at Canada they have such a good economy and health care facilities why don't we debate on such a matter rather than debating on gay rights which is not natural and utter waste of time.More and more parents are speaking in English with their sons and daughters, a day might come when there will be no one left to speak Indian languages. The culture and tradition which was once our country's pride is vanishing just like the ice in Antartica,We are misusing the hard earned freedom, the freedom for which hundred's of Indian's have lost their lives, if we don't correct ourselves we will have to pay a bigger prize this time cause FREEDOM IS NOT FREE
