Road To Independence

So finally, the day has arrived. I am not talking about the judgement day here, but I am referring to that historic day which leads each and every Indian loyal and worthy for its country. Yes, I am talking about our Independence Day .The moment 15^th August arrives, everyone would start chanting that every patriotic song that they would remember. Everyone would be dipped in tri- colours from tip to their toes.

But the basic question is, why are all these things validated merely for a day? Aren’t we independent the rest of the 364 days? Was the freedom fight fought to celebrate a national holiday? Aren’t we Indians for the rest of our life except each 15^th of August’s?

I was asked to write about the road that was taken to gain our freedom. When I started writing, it felt pretty easy to measure all the facts and articulate them somehow. However, India didn’t give me that ease. And why should she? Indian freedom required sacrifices, then how could I just scramble them in words that easily?

Well, when I first thought about initiating my article, I thought of the freedom fight and the sacrifices and hardships given and faced by the people at that time. But when I pondered over it again, the fact that struck my mind was, when I am supposed to present my views over the path of freedom, would it be justifiable to write about the path of India’s development from the period when it was a slave to what it is now, just by merely reading some known facts? Isn’t it necessary to bring some of those facts in limelight which never come out publically? As a writer, isn’t it my responsibility to view all the dimensions with same code of observation without being bias over anything? And when I haven’t been in that period of hardships, how can I practically be unbiased to anything?

So, anyone expecting this material to be regular patriotic bloggy stuff, I am really sorry for your disappointment.However I would try to do complete justice with the relevance of the topic.

Well, I am a person of an age where mostly no one talks about the past. No one cares about what happened, or whatever anyone did to gain our freedom. No one is interested in what Bal Gangadhar Tilak suggested or what strategies Bhagat Singh tried to follow? Infact, some of us wouldn’t even be knowing these names, except that of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, sole reason being that his photo is on every Indian paper currency.

My point is, all these people gave their life’s to gain independence from a foreign rule, but what about the freedom from the slavery we are facing today? Does forming a democratic government means we are free? Does being able to study at will mean freedom? Does being able to roam around on streets anytime means we are no more a slave?

And my obvious answer is, No!!

Today we don’t have threat from any foreign ruler or any outsider, but we feel most insecured from our own people. Our freedom didn’t meant just acquiring our rights, but it meant our freedom from any such feeling which would lead us to slavery again. Unfortunately, we haven’t got this freedom yet. We are still under the control of differences and lack of oneness. Be it any matter, we still are ready to go against each other. So, are we still free?

We are given a right to choose our government because we are a free nation, but we aren’t supposed to act against any disloyal act of our own chosen government. We have been given a right to study as much as we want, but the same right of a deserving candidate is suppressed under the name of donations. Our constitution was formed on the motto of equality and non-discrimination but does this thinking lives in case of girl child killings or in case of their inadequate education? Do people follow the freedom given to them correctly? Aren’t we supposed to be united under this freedom?

However it isn’t about blaming the government or placing allegations over corrupt people or pointing fingers over any indiscripency. It is about us. If we are facing any such problem, it is just because we are the ones creating such problems. If we are facing corruption, it is because we are corrupt. If we blame the government, it’s just blaming ourselves because, we are the government. It’s us, who kill our girl child even before that innocent soul feels her feet.

“Terrorism is a global threat”.

This is one particular statement which is quite commonly heard in today’s scenario .But aren’t the terrorist humans? So, doesn’t it mean that it’s us who encourage terrorism for personal gains or for any other cause?

However being short on space, I won’t get into its elaboration. But the important fact still lives, that it isn’t about commemorating the sacrifices of our martyrs but our freedom lies in fighting the evils which are a threat for us today. The day we are able to eradicate corruption, communalism, personal hatred, poverty and most importantly the feeling of self-imposition, that day we would be known as independent. So, the road to independence doesn’t start from the Indian revolt against the Britishers, but it commences from that every single door which is bounded by the social evils mentioned before. And surely the path is too difficult to follow for everyone. Though the day it is achieved, we would certainly be free. Thus, the road to freedom is yet to be explored and surely it would be discovered.