These are some lovely quotes I got in an email from Channa:
“It is only if we think back to the days of the freedom struggle that we will appreciate this day and our freedom all the more. If we know what our freedom fighters went through to achieve Independence only then will this day become special. We should understand what slavery is to fully know the magic of freedom.”
– S Nagarajan, Topper, Indian Administrative Examination 2005
“I want India to be a developed nation. A country where there is no poverty, where no one goes to bed without food and all have proper shelter. A place where there is no violence of any kind — be it for religion or anything else.”
– Mohammad Abrar, Quran teacher
After 58 years of Independence, I think overall we’ve not done too bad actually! 🙂 India is always a country that can be rediscovered again and again.
There’s one particular quote that I liked…
“My country, right or wrong;
if wrong, to be set right;
if right, to be kept right.”
– Arindam Chaudhuri in the book “The Great Indian Dream”
I believe this makes a lot of sense. There’s no point in blindly singing “saare jahan se accha” (best in the whole world) even when, as my friend Jaimini has remarked, in some aspects it can be “saare jahan ka kachda” (all the garbage of the world!)
We are currently in yet another struggle for independence. And this time, we need independence from corruption, from intolerance, from apathy, from everything that is adharmic – against nature.
There’s a nice quote: “I have found the enemy, and it is us”.
Whether we would like to take up this or not, is a very hard choice each of us (er… starting with me! 😉 ) has to make, every day…
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