India as a nation grew one more year older today. Today we are a 64 year old nation in whose blood patriotism is still running. My question is what does a Independence day mean to you and me? I am in the process of finding an answer to this question.
You will find school kids going to their schools to hoist national flag, Shops will be decorated with tricolor, will see people wearing the tri-coloured dress, Rickshaws with flags, some societies conducting their annual gathering, some hurriedly preparing for upcoming festivals, loud speakers playing patriotic songs (mile sur tera hamara included), TV channels featuring patriotic films, news channels conducting debates on topics of growth India has made so far, tourists find 15th August as a day of discounted day for their vaccation, some happily sleeping till noon as they got a day off from usual schedule, some visiting relatives and so on.
How many of us including me has gone for a flag hoist ceremony once they are out of school? As people are constantly hearing national anthem in cinema halls, else many of us would have forgotten national anthem till now.
Lets not forget the pain and torture people bore so that today we can walk and speak freely. Patriotism should not be a one day thing for an Indian. Patriotism is not about hearing PM speech or watching Border 100th time or posting patriotic messages on wall. Also, it should not be something that comes up on 15th August and 26th January.
Let this devotion remain in our behavior even on other days excluding differences among us and live in harmony Let each one of us do our part to this nation- may be its the smallest ever thing anyone can do- to furnish the gift that we got.
Jai Hind.
You will find school kids going to their schools to hoist national flag, Shops will be decorated with tricolor, will see people wearing the tri-coloured dress, Rickshaws with flags, some societies conducting their annual gathering, some hurriedly preparing for upcoming festivals, loud speakers playing patriotic songs (mile sur tera hamara included), TV channels featuring patriotic films, news channels conducting debates on topics of growth India has made so far, tourists find 15th August as a day of discounted day for their vaccation, some happily sleeping till noon as they got a day off from usual schedule, some visiting relatives and so on.
How many of us including me has gone for a flag hoist ceremony once they are out of school? As people are constantly hearing national anthem in cinema halls, else many of us would have forgotten national anthem till now.
Lets not forget the pain and torture people bore so that today we can walk and speak freely. Patriotism should not be a one day thing for an Indian. Patriotism is not about hearing PM speech or watching Border 100th time or posting patriotic messages on wall. Also, it should not be something that comes up on 15th August and 26th January.
Let this devotion remain in our behavior even on other days excluding differences among us and live in harmony Let each one of us do our part to this nation- may be its the smallest ever thing anyone can do- to furnish the gift that we got.
Jai Hind.
Good at pointing out the forgotten realities of the sacrifices of the Greats of our past that we have taken for granted. Few changes would be needed in sentence structuring at some places though :)
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