Some luminary thinker once said - for my mother keeps repeating it time and again, so it must be true - 'The Human Mind is strange, because it always craves for the exact things it doesn't have and looks at the neighbor's plate of food rather than relishing the dishes in front of it'. Not too long after she first said it - sometime before my B.Tech life, I realised its truth.
Today, five years hence, I see it materialising before me.
Today, five years hence, I see it materialising before me.
India was freed from the British clutches after a century of struggle in 1947. Everybody knows that and I shall not bore you with the story. Today, we celebrate the 65th commemoration of this freedom.But wait, take a look around you. Do you feel that people are really 'commemorating' their independence? Popular television channels show snippets of journalists throwing simple questions as 'Who is Gandhiji?' or 'What is so special about 15th August?' at common folk who 'hang about' in the cities of our country. What do they say?
'Some freedom fighter' or 'I think India won freedom' would be the answer you would hear once in about eight or ten people.
'Some freedom fighter' or 'I think India won freedom' would be the answer you would hear once in about eight or ten people.
