Are we Independent?????

The current day bollywood does not have ideas and in no way does it produce good films. Just the same old romantic fiction with a similar plot is there to be seen in most of the films. But some films are still produced which can be termed as outstanding. You must be thinking why I am talking about the dullness of Bollywood without any specific reason. Well, I just saw a great film, ‘Rang De Basanti’ and it just ignited the fire within. A dialogue in the film says ‘We are taught to adjust from our very childhood. 6 people will be sitting on a berth of 3 in a train and the 7th comes and says, ‘adjust karle na yar’ ‘. Well that’s true indeed.
This habit of adjusting is so intense that we try to adjust to everything even if something is going the wrong way around us. This reminds me of yet another dialogue from a bollywood film ‘A Wednesday’. “Galti hamari hai, hum log bahut jaldi used to ho jate hai. Koi hadsa hota hai to channel badal badal ke sara majra dekh lia, phone kia, shukar manaya ki hum log bach gae, aur fir hum us situation se ladne ki bajae usse adjust karna shuru kar dete hain……”.
The generation preceding ours had the guts. The guts to bring about revolutions and the guts to challenge the system. Otherwise we would still have been living under the British rule. Some great people bought Independence for us in 1947. Yes, they bought it, because that deal made us lose a part of our nation which in the current day is known as Pakistan. But, today, we just turn a blind eye on everything going on around us, or, at the maximum we would criticize the government, burn buses, hold candle light vigils, show black – band resistance or anything like that but we fail to do anything concrete. Are we that busy in our lives? Don’t we have time for our own welfare? You could see news readers, experts, as they are called, speaking the whole day about one thing or the other, interviewing one person or the next, but are they really doing their work they are supposed to? No, I don’t think. Media, especially in India where law gives full Independence to the media, isn’t doing enough. They have the power to uncover the wrongs done by those corrupt ministers, they have the power to pressurize the system, and they can unite the public and change this whole system .But alas! They won’t do that. Because, maybe to some extent the media is corrupt too. Stories aren’t reported to us, they are made. The whole game, everywhere, is of money. The media houses too run after money and try to mould the whole story their way so as to make the most money.
Even after 63 years of Independence, we aren’t independent in the true sense. Just look back, the same Gandhi family has been ruling the country for decades now, with just some years of exception when another bunch of politicians got the chance to dictate the country. As they say, ‘SAB KURSI KA KHEL HAI’. Someone has truly said, ‘POWER CORRUPTS’. India is the best example. As soon as one gets into power, they try to get the maximum money and stuff their pockets. We all know how India’s money is deposited in Swiss bank by some immoral people. Swiss bank has once offered to provide the details of all the Indian money deposited there if the Government of India would request them to do so. But there was no response from New Delhi. If it wasn’t a money game, then our Government would have responded to this. But it didn’t. Probably because those ministers were afraid that they will be uncovered too.
Another thing that we very often forget, that the country is ours and from us. So if something has to change in the country, we must first change ourselves. Country ki most problems logon ki wajah se hi hain. We just criticize the government that they fail to stop us. I am not saying the government is right everywhere, there are many problems due to government. But many problems would disappear if we reform ourselves. We have lost our integrity. Let’s take an example, isn’t there a perception in all of us that donation, as it is called, in the engineering colleges are normal. We ask, ‘Us college mein kitni donation hai’. Like it is a part of the fee that is fixed. If there is bribery in the country, is the top brass responsible for all of that? Don’t the government employees demand ‘Chai-Pani’ for everything they do? And those government employees are nothing but the ‘Aam Aadmi, The Mango Man’. So, we ourselves are adding to the problems of the country and it’s time to change. Our enormous growth rate will never satisfy anyone, till we are short of morals.
So guys, I hope you would have read all of this. Please, I urge you all to come forward, change yourself, change others and unleash the new India that is waiting for all of us. Come, India needs a revolution, another one which will give us Independence in the true sense. And this time it doesn’t demand for blood. It demands for the call of our conscience. Come, India needs you!!!!!!!