Independence was an abstract freedom giving to Indians on the night of 15th august 1947. It was really a night and morning is still awaited. Rabidranath Tagore wrote "Where the Mind is without fear" and defined an ideal freedom. Why are we still in clutches of some Indian born rulers?. The story of this newly independent democratic India starts when Mr. Nehru appointed political people to higher posts of offices.
Congress paved the path for congress man as the president and then governors. A well know historian and a opportunist politician, Panditjee knew how to make the whole system weak. His weak foreign policy created Kashmir dispute. This has never been in history that in spite of winning the Kashmir war, then government happily passed a one forth part to Pakistan and a small part to China. The politics covered all and this policy was shown as if India has a peace loving image. People were happy that India was Peace loving and that was an achievement. But it was a weak show that demoralized the, then military and instigated confidence in some anti Indian forces.
History repeated itself when Indira Gandhi (Political Heir of the Nehru Clan) fought 1971 war against Pakistan. Army did a fantastic job to win the battle. Pakistani army surrendered and the number if soldiers surrendered were more than 80000. India could have forced Pakistan on negotiation table but again the peace loving nation freed all the soldiers. The exchange gift was Shimla agreement which lays down that Kashmir problem should be the solved with talks. The funniest part of the whole game was people of India were happy with the way they have been fooled again. The songs of victory made Indira won another term graciously. Congress achievement was in drugging the whole India with false achievement of victory in minds of Indians.
National security is not the only issue but is the foremost. The another battle started with in democratic India when Mr. Mandal released his report. British rulers use to follow divide and rule policy to rule a divided nation. Same happened when V.P. Singh was sworn in as Prime Minister. A small and weak janta dal was aiming to target to divide a section of the society to cater for votes. The draconian report was tabled in parliament. Reservation bill was passed which now allows to reserve a percentage of seats for certain caste of people. This was not an attempt to raise the backward people but was to remind certain section of society that they belong to some caste which is been looked down. A seed of hate was sown into hearts of some sections that others are enemies. There were some protests when students tried to agitate. But things settled down after some time. V.P. Singh lost his post but was able to make India hollow from within. People were mum. V.P. Singh was not responsible, but we are.
The gimmick was played again by congress few months ago. The human resource suddenly felt that reservation should be increased. The ironic decision was made when a report suggested that reservations in India has completely failed. The uplifting of certain section has dropped in last 20 years. The report suggest that reservations based on caste is not serving the purpose. The weak education policy is a stumbling block in the progress of undeveloped class. But Mr. Arjun Singh, a faithful servant of Mrs Gandhi(a new heir of Nehru-Gandhi family), announced new reservations. A huge uproar from doctors community about this form of reservation rocked India. People from different sections joined hands and started to fight. Lastly everything dissolved and nothing happened. People forgot everything. No one now talks about it.
I have seen people in small get together s talking about the issues. They know the problems and solutions but they are waiting for a Saviour to come onto the earth and do something. Many have died thinking same and more will die. We will gift all these problems to our children as we were gifted. This will keep on happening. We would have dreamed reincarnation of Mahatma Gandhi who could have at least unified India. We are still Hindu, Muslim, Marathi, Kashmiri but an Indian. You can not clean a dirty pit standing on your terrace and talking about it. You need to step your feet into the pit and clean it. We have to take responsibility now. We can not wait for a Leader to step up and do something.
The right way is create awareness and tell people that someone is fooling them. Let's come out from our houses for a reason that we feel concerned. Let no political party interfere our work. Let us start our own movement when we will talk in bigger groups and address the concerns. The best weapon we still have is Satyagrah. Let us all sit on a Hunger Strikes for a very small issue and do not abandon it until work is done. When we see some people doing a legitimate protest, lets sit with them.
I know we all know but we have to act this time. Let's become fearless and held our head high. Into this morning of freedom let India Awake. India Awaking is India progressing.
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2 comments:
When can we stop cribbing about our past as well as present ?
Reservation is a serious roadblock to a country's progress and can cause a serious rift in the society. But, when have we utilized the means what we possess to do something concrete ? A while back, Mr Shailesh Gandhi, a crusader for RTI, came for a guest lecture in our company. But even though, I was hell impressed with the session, and had sworn that definitely,I would be keeping track with it.
But Alas !! Its time for us to awaken and time for realization....
ha ha nice..now I can see instead of people shouting from terrace to clean the pit, they are using net and there laptops sitting in most sophisticated places to do the same...
my friend, we as so called 'intellects' all know about this. But as u said who'll bell the cat, who'll sacrifice...none of us in reality (few are willing to accept that) atleast I being a practical accept the same.
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