vande mataram

Independence day……

Its 9 minutes to yet another independence day for India. My heart aches with love for this country. The only one I’ve ever known; this land of great mysteries, of even greater tragedies. What’s there in store for us as we embark on another year of ‘freedom’? a food shortage may be and a hand full of bomb blasts and dead bodies and crorepathi politicians.........

Three farmers were shot dead today for standing up for their right to a livelihood. Killed by an administration which spends thousands of crores of rupees in immortalizing their leader’s ‘legacy’ through gigantic statues and monuments but has no time or resources to spend on its poor farmers!

11 schoolchildren died today…..washed off into the unknown as their school bus fell into a river. 11 blooming hopes, 11 dreams and aspirations….gone in a second.

Are these the harbingers to our free yeas ahead?........ or will we some thing in the line of our Olympic gold? Will we feel once again that feeling when our heart lifted out with pride and our eyes filled with joy at the thought of our beloved land……….. the sight of our tricolor rising proudly, accompanied by the sound of our anthem…..

Happy independence day India………I love you.