Yesterday morning, a casual morning talk with one of my good friend gradually turned into a serious discussion and then a verbal altercation !!! I don't know how and when the reactions started coming out from me spontaneously. By nature, I am not a reactive person. I know very well that in this world of more than 600 crores people, everybody has his/her own opinion and that needs to be respected in a context. Despite of this strong understanding and maturity, I spoke out ...... I wonder !!!!
Indians have some grudges with the country (everybody has different, but everybody has some) and in our age, apparently the grudges come out in strong (or sometimes abusive) words.I retaliated these thoughts and tried to put my point that in the diversity of India, everybody wants his own country, every single person has some negative thoughts about the person, who is not of his own religion, caste, region or complexion (!!!) too.People from UP and Bihar are on receiving end in Mumbai and similar was the case with South Indians few decade back. Sometimes, people from North-East get alien treatment in some or other part of the country. The protest in Kashmir is very much visible to everybody.
Its true that there is a lot of work is still need to be done. Lacking of transparency has marred our democracy in last six decades of independence. Problems are getting bigger and bigger ...... but I do not think that it gives an ample reason to rebuke the country. After all ,our identity comes from the country. People aspire to go to The US and UK and other developed nation; but they often forget that their they will always be treated as third class citizen there(not second class too !!!! ). They will always be of Indian origin, wherever they go in the world. People always start comparing India with The US and UK; but they often forget that there are many other nations in the world, whose citizen aspire to be as par with Indians. United Sates and UK are matured democracy with almost ten times of democratic period than that of India. They have resolved most of their internal conflicts(despite of far less diversity than India, they had the differences !!!! ), and still working on. Are we so impatient that we want to resolve everything within a whisker of moment. It is not possible at all. After six decades of independence, its good that the differences and grudges, which were trying hard to come out from the cozy independent feeling, are finally coming out. Unless they come out, we would not be able to resolve those. Independence is an ongoing journey, it is not a one time phenomenon. It is like a journey, in which you always set a new target after crossing one. There might be some hiccups, there might be ups and down; but we need to address all those because it is our journey. Nobody else would do anything for us.If we want to achieve next milestone in the journey, we must have to take the pain to cross the hilly areas, desert and every other barricade.
We want to achieve everything, we want to see India mighty like US but most of the time we forget that they also have their share of issues; which we cant realize sitting here. The US is "THE US" because their citizen made it. Its the generosity, vision and tolerance of their own citizens that they allowed people from other countries to come and build their nation. In India, we even don't want people of UP and Bihar to come to Maharashtra and hope that India will become The US in five years.
When US or UK were building their own respective nations, India used to be a prosperous country. But they never thought to escape from their own conditions and decided to build their own country.They tried to found out every possible means to build their own nation. They might have taken short cuts and decided to settle in India as it had all the prosperity; but they didn't do that. They continued their journey with all the challenges and their journey is still on.
Our independence journey is in very early phase now. Problems have just started coming out as our generation is the generation who opened their eyes after Independence from British. Our previous generations had a target to get the freedom from The British Raj; which they achieved. They gave us an independent Indian nation; they gave us an Indian Nationalism, which unites us. Now its our generation's turn to take this baton forward to achieve the next target rather than trying to find out short cuts and cursing our own country.
Indians have some grudges with the country (everybody has different, but everybody has some) and in our age, apparently the grudges come out in strong (or sometimes abusive) words.I retaliated these thoughts and tried to put my point that in the diversity of India, everybody wants his own country, every single person has some negative thoughts about the person, who is not of his own religion, caste, region or complexion (!!!) too.People from UP and Bihar are on receiving end in Mumbai and similar was the case with South Indians few decade back. Sometimes, people from North-East get alien treatment in some or other part of the country. The protest in Kashmir is very much visible to everybody.
Its true that there is a lot of work is still need to be done. Lacking of transparency has marred our democracy in last six decades of independence. Problems are getting bigger and bigger ...... but I do not think that it gives an ample reason to rebuke the country. After all ,our identity comes from the country. People aspire to go to The US and UK and other developed nation; but they often forget that their they will always be treated as third class citizen there(not second class too !!!! ). They will always be of Indian origin, wherever they go in the world. People always start comparing India with The US and UK; but they often forget that there are many other nations in the world, whose citizen aspire to be as par with Indians. United Sates and UK are matured democracy with almost ten times of democratic period than that of India. They have resolved most of their internal conflicts(despite of far less diversity than India, they had the differences !!!! ), and still working on. Are we so impatient that we want to resolve everything within a whisker of moment. It is not possible at all. After six decades of independence, its good that the differences and grudges, which were trying hard to come out from the cozy independent feeling, are finally coming out. Unless they come out, we would not be able to resolve those. Independence is an ongoing journey, it is not a one time phenomenon. It is like a journey, in which you always set a new target after crossing one. There might be some hiccups, there might be ups and down; but we need to address all those because it is our journey. Nobody else would do anything for us.If we want to achieve next milestone in the journey, we must have to take the pain to cross the hilly areas, desert and every other barricade.
We want to achieve everything, we want to see India mighty like US but most of the time we forget that they also have their share of issues; which we cant realize sitting here. The US is "THE US" because their citizen made it. Its the generosity, vision and tolerance of their own citizens that they allowed people from other countries to come and build their nation. In India, we even don't want people of UP and Bihar to come to Maharashtra and hope that India will become The US in five years.
When US or UK were building their own respective nations, India used to be a prosperous country. But they never thought to escape from their own conditions and decided to build their own country.They tried to found out every possible means to build their own nation. They might have taken short cuts and decided to settle in India as it had all the prosperity; but they didn't do that. They continued their journey with all the challenges and their journey is still on.
Our independence journey is in very early phase now. Problems have just started coming out as our generation is the generation who opened their eyes after Independence from British. Our previous generations had a target to get the freedom from The British Raj; which they achieved. They gave us an independent Indian nation; they gave us an Indian Nationalism, which unites us. Now its our generation's turn to take this baton forward to achieve the next target rather than trying to find out short cuts and cursing our own country.
