MEANING OF INDEPENDENCE: CELEBRATING INDIA’s
66th INDEPENDENCE DAY
We celebrate once again our freedom
on the 15th of August, 1947. We celebrate it as a festival every
year with much fanfare, hoist the flags wherever we like and bring ‘jalebis’
for us and for our children to eat and enjoy since we got Independence in 1947.
I would not like to discuss anything which takes a lot of analysis and
scholastic discussion about the day and how it came in our life, with what and
how much struggle and sacrifice involved. I presume everybody knows the history
and if not must know it because knowing the history makes your future better
and safe. The pertinent point is whether
we have been able to keep the sanctity and dignity of the freedom of this
country, whether we have been able to teach our children the meaning of this National
Festival whom we have entrusted a lot of work in their lives including getting
a qualification of any kind to earn their bread and butter. No doubt it is
their basic concern but knowing the history and sacrifice behind our National
Flag seems equally important. China got freedom one year later and has become a far more
powerful and developed Nation than us with a much bigger population than ours.
We still lack in infrastructure. There may be many reasons. It is also not
necessary to go into so many details. But at the same time it is worth
mentioning that only eating Jalebis , hoisting flags and listening to patriotic
songs is not going to justify the freedom and meaning of our Independence. We
will have to resolve something like this and as under-
1- We will be an inherent and inborn
national rather than having nationalism imposed on us.
2- We will not throw tri- color made
of paper on the ground or anywhere in the street. It is an insult to National
Flag.
3- We will take the hoisting of flag
in the right spirit and not as a simple or ritualistic ceremony to forget it
from next day onwards.
4- We will go for a free and fare
poll without caste and religious consideration. We will vote only for a
development oriented polity.
5- We will give education to all
children – female or male. We would not make any discrimination. We will not
indulge in gender test of a child in mother’s womb.
6- We will strive for a trade balance
with other countries for a good economy.
7- We will import the things according
to requirement such as petroleum etc. for which we have to give a lot of
currency to petroleum producing
countries adversely affecting our foreign exchange reserve.
8- We will evolve a system of social
audit for all government schemes and
projects . - We will evolve a public transport
system to reduce carbon from environment and to keep country pollution free and
to keep a convenient temperature to live in.
10- We will have all our commercial
establishments registered with Income Tax Department to give little of what we
earn every year.
11 – We will respect all without
compromising self respect and Nationality, make our Nation so much strong that
nobody could play down with our sovereignty.
12- We will vote without fail for a
good governance. We will get Election ID Card on our own as soon as we become
18 years of age.
13 – We will keep our rivers and land
pollution free and resort to green economy avoiding use of chemical fertilizers
and pesticides on the crops.
14-We will connect all land to water
bodies for maximum employment generation and resort to industries based on
agricultural products since India is a country essentially of farmers.
15- We will reign in black money and
bring it back from foreign banks.
16- We will see to it that nobody
dies without food.
Greets you all on this DAY OF
INDEPENDENCE. Sudhanshu
Kumar | Date 15.08.2013
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