On 15th of August’09 our Honorable Prime Minister Mr. Manmohan Singh unfurled the national Tricolor flag at the Historic Red Fort in Delhi. It was exactly 62 years back when the Indian union gained its Independence from the British.
After more than a century of British rule on the midnight of 14th of August’1947 two new nation states India and Pakistan where formed. “At the stroke of midnight hour, when the world slept India awoke to life and freedom. A moment that came rarely in History, when we step out from the old to the new, than an age ends, and when the soul of a nation, long suppressed, find utterance…”remarked our first Prime Minister, the late Jawaharlal Nehru.
We are living in a free India, India of our dreams, India we have built to become a great nation. Where everyone is free. Free to express our mind, Free to follow any religion, to practice any profession, to marry in any caste , to move around freely at any time of the day or night, to make choices and take decisions. India is jubilant, an emerging nation growing in every aspect. Growing leaps and bounds strength to strength with free spirited people contributing in all aspect of development.
Rabindranath Tagore wrote………..
Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high
Where knowledge is free.
Where the world has not been broken up into
fragments by narrow domestic walls
Where words come out from the depth of truth….
…Into that Heaven of Freedom, my father, let my country awake
Truly India has awoken to be a free country, with guaranteed freedom for all its citizens irrespective of caste, creed, religion and region. But somehow when all of India is free, a part of it still remains. Remain as always to be bound, bounded by chains. Where Freedom is denied.
In the world’s largest democracy where everyone is expected to be free. Freedom is still deprived and denied in certain parts of the Country. Where the very people who are assigned to safeguard and uphold the freedom and dignity of the people make a mockery of the whole thing.
In states like Jammu and Kashmir, Nagaland and Manipur. In the name of safeguarding the unity of the Indian union inhuman acts like Armed forces special power acts (AFSPA) have been imposed.
Such acts deny the very fundamental rights of the people.
Everyday the people has to undergo humiliation and insult. In the name of safeguarding the union, Freedom is lost. Man, Woman and Children alike are subjugated to torture and intimidation. In such parts freedom means to remain silent, Freedom means to suffer and be ready for subjugation.
For such parts of the country the hope and dreams for a new India were not achieved.Perhap anotherstruggle, another 15th of August still awaits them. A struggle to deliver them the real FREEDOM.
“Man is born free But everywhere he is in chain” – Rousseau.
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