It's ironic how we walk proudly and call ourselves a part of a free nation. A nation that was under the grasp of a powerful country for about two hundred years. Did I just mention a span of two centuries? We fought for our freedom and achieved that. This is really one of the greatest achievements we have ever witnessed. But what we see and what we experience are completely two different things. I feel that we are bound by much more toxic things than what we experienced a few decades ago.
We are independent and we call ourselves free. But we are still in the state of slavery. We are enslaved. Enslaved to brutality against women. Enslaved to child abuse. Enslaved to communal hatred. These are just a few things out of hundreds that I have pointed to. It was much better back then when we were not independent. At least, we had someone to blame. Today, we blame each other and fight amongst ourselves. We were supposed to be united. Every individual should have been safe. I see women walking with fear after dusk. I see children forced to labor. I see people fighting over religious matters. I see the poor and the weak being exploited every day. I don't see the unity and safety of the people. The rich and the people in power are the ones dominating the people of the lower class. We are surrounded by opportunists who on every step take advantage of the needy.
India for a very long time has promoted peace but we now live with the "let it be" or to be more specific "chalta hai" attitude. We don't care much about anything wrong. We don't want to indulge ourselves in any such matter. Whether it is relevant to the government, corruption, infrastructure, crimes or any such thing, we just want to keep ourselves out of it.
We need to change our mindset. We need to stand and speak for ourselves so that our voices are outreached. With even such minute changes, we can call ourselves privileged and we can "WALK FREE".
You're absolutely correct, brother.
ReplyDeleteThe people of this nation do not understand the real meaning of freedom. Exploiting everything out of selfishness is what everyone has in mind.
People need to change themselves. And that is a very tough thing to do. Because we already have corrupted our souls beyond limit.
People quoting Shakespeare while sitting in their homes,"Cowards die many times before their death.";
Teaching stories to their children about how one should neither do any wrong nor should they tolerate it. They will talk about honesty, equality but,as soon as it comes to implementation, those people will not hesitate to commit any injustice.
It has become a habit.
Changing this mindset seems really impossible. Because it's in our blood and we live by it.