India Observes 65th Independence Day (I)...

India Observes 65^th Independence Day (I)…

The story starts with quoting the historical remarks on facebook-social network made by the then Prime Minister of England, Winston Churchill in 1940s, against Independence to India. He said, "Power will go to the hands of rascals, rogues, free booters of low caliber, men of straw with sweet tongues and silly hearts. They will fight amongst themselves for caste religion, power and even for no reasons! India will be lost in political squabbles. A day would come when even Air and Water would be taxed in India. Indians are definitely not yet qualified and prepared, to manage their Independence responsibly".

How wonderful and how efficient a fortune teller Churchill was!!!  Let’s introspect… Does Churchill hold good and correct today? Was he correct in his demonstration? Perhaps we Indians, demonstrated ourselves and made him correct. Who is responsible for it??? Who created this type of faulty system? Who is running this system???Most of us will answer “the politicians”. It is a pity that we are part and parcel of this system.  But most of us will not disagree that most of Indians are qualified and intelligent. But the majority of them are not so, who are ruling India. If we look back at post-independent political history of India, It is the fact that they made us always fight for religion, power, money…Could we blame them for this type of nonsense??? My answer is a big “NO”. Because we have a right to vote them to rule us… The next question is what is the “%age” of the voters who cast their votes for a mandate? How many of them are truly educated to judge the pros and cons of a candidate standing in for mandate? How many of the truly educated voters are truly analytical before casting their votes? Many of us who are complaining against do not even go to vote? But “why”???  If we are not getting a perfect candidate let’s cast our ballot blank. We are allowing these politicians to emerge victor directly/indirectly in elections and to commit all the misdeeds, mis-governance, corruption, betrayal … We are not creating the system itself but we are allowing someone to create it for us. We can not only blame the political system of this country for this. We all are corrupt equally. If, by bribing/backing (sifarish), we get our work done, most of us prefer that way. We use every means whenever we have some favor to get.Even if it is not supposed to be done. Yes, if bribing is a part of corruption, we are definitely corrupt. But this type of corruption might be invisible in comparison to the corruption made by the politicians, bureaucrats, officers, professionals etc …Directly/indirectly a common man is forced and helpless to commit to be corrupt. He/she is simply engulfed by the system. A statistics shows that 85% of Indians are less privileged to possess 15% of gross national property while 15% are more privileged to possess 85% of the total Indian property. Money deposited by the later group of Indians in different banks will run the budget of India more than 20-30 years. Why such difference and who produced it? You find out your own answers…  

India has come a long way. We should feel proud whatever we have achieved in last 64 years. If we failed, it was not because of politicians only. It might be you, me and others who are part of a faulty, selfish, uneducated, unaware society. We bribed that’s why they took it. We voted that’s why they looted our national property. Merely observing one hour darkness on the eve of 15th of August will not solve our problem. No “Jan Lokpal Bill” will show the way out there, if we are blind and unaware about happenings around us. We have to become our own “Lokapal”. We are independent so far as sovereignty is concerned but we are slaves of corruption, hypocrisy, exploitation, immorales etc in our social, political, professiona​l and personal life. If politicians are only the solution to above all problems, then let’s increase the education and awareness level of our poor voters who make the way for a blooming politician…Let’s stop the voter whose vote costs not more than two pegs of liquor/100 rupee note. The cost of the vote is decided by the candidates who are fighting elections. Of course we are not creating it but we are voting those who are creating all these nonsense. If we have a right to vote them, shouldn't we get a right to kill them if they produce these rubbishes???

And I am not getting my blood feeling hot by sayings of an old foreigner like Churchill who was ruling us also at the time of making the above statement. Most of Indians will be very hesitant in accepting the "hard truth". And, painfully we have learnt to live with it since years. We got flown away by all of the misdeeds, corruption, exploitation, mis-governance... how many of us truly possess that courage to stand against all odds? How many of us are truly interested to become true and trademark ambassador of honesty, truth, morale etc in our own social and personal life? How many of us are truly daring to become a part of the political system and bring the change forwards? If we can't, none can do it for us. We are independent so far as sovereignty is concerned but we are slaves of corruption, hypocrisy, exploitation, immorales etc in our socio-politico-professiona​l  and personal life. If we are really interested let's prepare ourselves and get ready for all changes needed for a Developed India.  Let’s start  changing ourselves.

Let’s salute all our martyrs who had sacrificed for our nation on this auspicious day. Let’s wipe out every type of corruption in our social and personal life. One India, a Shining India, a Developed India . Let's give a thought to it.

         I am thankful to these Indian Think-tanks (Kalai Vanan,Sugyan Mohanty,Arunesh Kumar, Amanjot Chahal, Amanjot Chahal, Varinder Bamrah, Sumit Garg, Abinash Mohapatra, Trishkova Kataria, : all of these are facebook browsers.) and others who think and dream about One India, Shining India and a Developed India…