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We celebrate our
Independence day on 15th August in 2016 with a lot of joy and happiness in
the air as well as in each of our eyes and hearts. It's
our 70th Independence day since 1947. It is a great feeling to be a
citizen of an Independent republic.
On this occasion it is
imperative that we remember the sacrifices of our great national heroes
during the long independence struggle. Many leaders in spite of being
well off, came on to the streets and fought for free India. Some of the
known leaders were Mahatma Gandhi, Pandit Nehru, Indira Gandhi, Sarojini
Naidu, Sardar Patel, Dadabai Nauroji, Bhagat Singh, Alluri SeetaRama Raju,
Pingali Venkaiah, Rani Lakshmi Bai, Mangal Pandey, Dr Rajendra Prasad, Dr
BR Ambedkar, Maulana Azad, Dadabai Nauroji, Jaya Prakash Narain, Kamraj,
Motilala Nehru, Pandit MM Malaviya, Tantiya Tope, Rabindra Nath Tagore,Dr Jakir
Hussain, Sukhdev, Senapati Bapat, and Subash Chandra Bose.
Many of these fighters fought while sacrificing their career, life, joy and family. Many ordinary people suffered major injuries, had their property destroyed and taken away and their women raped and killed. Most of the freedom fighters went to jails that had no proper facilities to live properly. A lot of them spent their own money to run press and write about the British atrocities and inform the whole world. That had put a lot of pressure on the British Throne.
Some of
them followed peaceful means of fighting, while the others followed
revolutionary methods. Many persons supported the freedom fighters,
so that movements could proceed. Whatever they did was more than sufficient to
throw the British, who had the largest power & army in the
world, out of the country.
Try to imagine that you
have to do this today. It will not be possible to imagine your situation
if you have to fight now like they had. Very few of us will be
ready to fight like them. This one point will simply tell us all the
enormous favour that the freedom fighters did for us. Some leaders may
appear to fight for people these days. But it appears that they look for
power after winning the public support and then earn money for themselves and
their favoured people. On the other hand, freedom struggle was for
the golden future of the country. It was not against the British
people, it was against their rule and injustice. But for a few, most of
them fought selflessly for the noble cause. Many people will now say “why fight for the
society, fight for yourself”. Look for
your career. This will be the
predominant feeling among people. So the
“glory” and “nobility” in the sacrifices of our freedom fighters is
unquestionable.
Without
their unrelented efforts and glorious and noble sacrifices, we would still
be slaves under the British. Their non-violent,
non-cooperative, freedom fight won acclaim all over the world. Many
countries could get their Independence afterwards following India.
It's 70 years
now already. India was very poor and unorganized. India faced tough
hurdles to come to where it is now. There were many internal struggles
for unity in diversity, peace. There were many hits by selfish people
from inside. There were many invasions on the land on the borders, during
which we lost a lot of land. There were a lot of regional, caste,
language and religious barriers for progress. A lot of good
things happened and bad things too along with them. Now people of
India are more educated and knowledgeable and are probably on a progress path
that the freedom fighters had hoped for.
We must pay our respectful tributes to them with full-hearted dedication and gratitude. While it may seem that patriotism is not a money-earning activity, still it's our inherent duty that we spend a few minutes to stand in silence and pray like we do (or did) for our forefathers.
In the seventy years there has been progress on many accounts. Now Indians are on the world map. However, there are other countries which have progressed far better than India in the last four decades. India has not been able to gain sufficient friendship from its neighbours. Indian economy is dependent badly on the world economy. Indian borders are not safe. India is still the country of poor, illiterate, dirty and disease prone in the eyes of the developed world. In the United Nations India has many supporters but India cannot get to any important position that has some power and responsibility. India has a lot of foreign debt, export-import gap and suffers from natural calamities every year. India lags behind many smaller countries in the fields of economy, business, tourism, sports etc. In the field of space, India has done good. India has shown tolerance, perhaps a little too much, to many disturbances from outside.
Thus in summary, India after independence has made some progress. Yet India still needs to accelerate its progress to be on par with other nations. India needs to show its power, like the way the United States does now and then, to show that it is a boss, in the fields it is.