Strive for destiny...

   We, the people of culturally & socially, the most enriched nation on earth, are living amidst a kind of insecurity that we could never imagine before. The land that we could proudly claim as ours, has fallen into the stealthy hands of a boundless range of antisocial & antidemocratic evil forces. At this wonderful occassion of the 64th independence day of our nation, there are a few things that need to be assesed and worked upon in our forward path to being the most prosperous, safe, stable & secure nation on earth.

   Ours is a nation, bestowed with that degree of heritage, culture & people, that no other country could claim of. We have come through time tested stability over centuries. No country would have experienced such a diverse mix of culture in shaping its background.Through the Mauryas, Guptas & Mughals goes the endless list of contributors to our cultural heritage, with which we seek our identity & pride. Caught in the hands of 400 long years of foreign rule came those brave, valiant & selfless souls who gave up their entire long lives in the hands of an unpleasant destiny for what they valued the most, the freedom of their motherland, something which even the most lending souls of today would find hard to indulge. The names in plenty lead by our own Bappuji, a man that comes once in thousand years, a soul whom any country would strive to own,& by far the man of the millennium.  Every indian must have that sense of pride in uttering this list of forefathers who sacrificed their soul & heart for the goodness of this nation, the future of this nation, the people of this nation.

   Now, our country is the largest democracy on earth, the seventh largest in terms of area & the second on earth in terms of shear population. But what exactly is our nation? As our beloved Panditji, Jawaharlal Nehru once put it, its the people of this nation that forms it. The people are the biggest assest to it. Indians today account for 17.3% of the world population & are set to overrun China halfway through this century . But what really characterizes our nation & lends it a rare uniqueness, is its diversity. Spread over from Kashmir in the north to Kanyakumari in the south & from Gujarat in the west to Arunachal in the east, we speak around 1652 languages & follow approximately a dozen religious faiths, not to account for the numerous animist traditions.

   But amonst all this diversity & rich background, we have not achieved what we,or more appropriately, our forefathers strived for. Caught in the haste of social devils, hunger, poverty, disease, communalism, overkill of the never ending corruption,nepotism & the overall attitude of sluggishness, that has been associated with & cherished upon  by our rivals, largely because of our fault, over the past century.To add to these are the modern iniquities like terrorism & violence, that are much more difficult to curb& have been stealing the wealth, heritage & status of our country.

    And yet amidst all these, there is something, that small stalk at the end, that gives the hope of a better future. Guided by the experience & knowledge of our senior citizens, we have one of the largest populations of youth in this world, the ones who are to form the backbone of the future of his nation. By developing that kind of spirit, lets come forward, holding our tradition & culture in one hand & the same degree of fightedness & selflessness, that our forefathers maintained during the struggle for our independence, on the other hand, to make our nation hold the stand that it rightly deserved far before us...    
 'Jai Hind'