Have we won our freedom??

So, we just celebrated our 65th Independence day.  Great!  The stories of all the valiant freedom fighters seem to be present only as textual matter in history text books.  Back in school most of us read them, memorised them and wrote them in our exams.  Did we ever cherish them?? Just for the sake of getting good grades we learned things about freedom fighters. It is just a case of 'learn and forget' even today.


India is the world's largest democracy with a carefully documented constitution and justice for all. Let me ask a question- are we a free nation??  The British ruled us for centuries.  India wanted 'Swaraj'.  But has this 'Swaraj' brought freedom?? Are we free to walk down the streets at midnight? Are the women bold enough to do that?  My answer is NO.  Yes, I agree the British have plundered and looted the nation but what are our brethren doing? Black money, scam,scandals are the headlines in every day's newspaper.  The father of our nation Mahatma Gandhi taught us certain basic principles of life....non-violence, truthfulness.  His philosophy towards life was very different.  My favourite one is 'Simple living and high thinking'.  It is very difficult to implement , I admit that.  Being selfless is difficult but not impossible.  I guess today's India, India 2012 should realize that though we are a free nation today, corruption is eroding the soil of freedom.  We are still slaves of social evils and the sad part is that the villains are our own country men.  Let us give it a thought.....

Jai Hind!

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