Every year on January 23rd, the debate on whether Netaji is dead or alive gains new momentum. All those people who conveniently keep Netaji out of their lives all through the year suddenly become Netaji-followers on his birth anniversary and the debate continues with renewed vigor. Some politicians are trying their best to sweep all information about Netaji under the rug claiming that plane crash to be true, while some people still argue that Netaji is alive at 116. While I do believe that we have the right to know what happened to Netaji, I definitely don't believe that he is alive now. I sincerely hope that he is not.
Why do I think so?
Netaji had a dream about freeing India from foreign rule. He said that he is willing to make a pact with the devil if need be to have his motherland free. India is free now...for more than 65 years and where do we stand? I am not talking just about the poverty. We have lots of billionaires. It is the corruption in every field, in every aspect that I wouldn't say makes me sad, but it kind of bewilders me. I mean how low can one get?
Yes, I know, I shouldn't just blame the government, because the government is made up of us. I wonder why we love to break laws from cutting in a queue to driving on the wrong way, in rigging elections to getting admitted to a college through the back door? Why is that we never learn to do things right in the first place? Why don't we have any ideals? Or laugh at people who do? Why have we been taught that winning the rat-race is the ultimate goal in life? Why has no one ever taught us how to become a bold yet compassionate person?
The political scene is at a worse situation than the social scene. Everyday I think about not reading Indian news, but then I end up reading them anyway. What do I find? Struggles everywhere. Infiltrators from outside, claims of splitting up states to smaller areas based on the ethnicity of the inhabitants from the inside. That is just way too much! There's no talk about education, technology, healthcare, no positive news, only hatred... hatred everywhere!
It's in the society. In the society that is so inhuman to mercilessly kill the girl child, or create a situation so bad for girls that the parents have no other option than to sell their children, make them beg or even make them a victim of child labor, a society where domestic violence is a common thing, one where staying alive day after day is the biggest miracle, I don't want Netaji to be alive. I don't ever want Netaji to come see us like this.
Why just Netaji? All those people who sacrificed themselves during our freedom struggle, what have we to answer them? We should be happy that the dead doesn't really turn up from their ashes/graves in real life. If they did, we would have been asked by them why have we done this to our country.
Why do I think so?
Netaji had a dream about freeing India from foreign rule. He said that he is willing to make a pact with the devil if need be to have his motherland free. India is free now...for more than 65 years and where do we stand? I am not talking just about the poverty. We have lots of billionaires. It is the corruption in every field, in every aspect that I wouldn't say makes me sad, but it kind of bewilders me. I mean how low can one get?
Yes, I know, I shouldn't just blame the government, because the government is made up of us. I wonder why we love to break laws from cutting in a queue to driving on the wrong way, in rigging elections to getting admitted to a college through the back door? Why is that we never learn to do things right in the first place? Why don't we have any ideals? Or laugh at people who do? Why have we been taught that winning the rat-race is the ultimate goal in life? Why has no one ever taught us how to become a bold yet compassionate person?
The political scene is at a worse situation than the social scene. Everyday I think about not reading Indian news, but then I end up reading them anyway. What do I find? Struggles everywhere. Infiltrators from outside, claims of splitting up states to smaller areas based on the ethnicity of the inhabitants from the inside. That is just way too much! There's no talk about education, technology, healthcare, no positive news, only hatred... hatred everywhere!
It's in the society. In the society that is so inhuman to mercilessly kill the girl child, or create a situation so bad for girls that the parents have no other option than to sell their children, make them beg or even make them a victim of child labor, a society where domestic violence is a common thing, one where staying alive day after day is the biggest miracle, I don't want Netaji to be alive. I don't ever want Netaji to come see us like this.
Why just Netaji? All those people who sacrificed themselves during our freedom struggle, what have we to answer them? We should be happy that the dead doesn't really turn up from their ashes/graves in real life. If they did, we would have been asked by them why have we done this to our country.
7 comments:
It's very sad how India is now... from every aspect. Not sure how people will survive after couple of generations later... Good we all would be gone by that time... 😢
oh dear..I think any of the freedom fighters would have been really disappointed and disillusioned if they had been alive today..I don't know if society was any better then for girls, but probably more honest and with the mafia raj takeover of politics in so many states- don't think that was what Nehru and Gandhi had in mind
Yes, the position of girls has improved and so has medical science and technology. Other than that, the less we talk about, the better. Nehru might not foresee this kind of a damage but he did start a lot of issues in his regime, the most important being the Kashmir problem.
yes, his foreign policies and some of his economic policy created problems later on, Kashmir and also he was blind about China
Foreign policy comes later - the biggest wrong was done by Gandhi-Nehru duo against the country in the shape of driving Netaji out. These very people would have been trained in the right way to become assets along with the taming/punishing of the bad. Our doomed destiny started from there.
I was about to comment something quite serious on this post.. with this in mind i reached the comment box and found "kedo mao" commenting first, that too lamenting on our future... how cud i be serious after that?
I am Sorry !!
Kedo Mao er ki kom gyan?
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