letter to my motherland in english
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I could have spoken with you at any time, but I ignored it. I kept myself busy in school, tuitions, video games, burgers, and whatnot. I easily find time to watch a Disney movie, the same way I could have found time to talk to you. I am sorry. I know you have heart of gold, you will forgive your child and write me back. I will not crib about others today, who did what and who hasn’t. I want to tell you what I am going to do for you. In fact, I am too little to do anything for you, you are almighty, what I can do for you. Still, there are little things I can do to respect you and to value your gifts. You gifted us food, shelter, freedom, and identity. But as we are not paying for it or fought for it, we have ignored you, we have taken you for granted. But I am going to correct my mistakes now.
From today I will not litter on roads, I will not use plastic. People and in some sense, I am responsible for all filth we throw at you. You gifted us lush green lands, food, and meadows with rainbows on top but we littered it with filth. We poisoned our food for profits, now onwards I will only eat organic food. We bored holes in your chest to squeeze out water and we wasted it in swimming pools. We scratched you to mine gold and diamonds to satisfy our egos. You gave us open fields to play but we locked ourselves in front of a console. There is natural beauty everywhere but our eyes stuck on phone screens. You nourished us from birth and we dream to settle on a foreign land one day. We blame others for not doing their things. We keep pointing fingers at others, but we ourselves repeat same mistakes. Your great sons and daughters martyred for your freedom and we keep fighting for petty things. Maybe we are like this because you are a mother, you loved us like own child. We took your love for granted. You gave us everything free of cost and we wasted it. You are powerful like almighty God, you can get it all straight in no time. You have all weapons and tricks to get it done, but you have a heart of a mother, you will never harm your children.
It is up to us to understand, it is the time to wake up. We have already made a blunder, nevertheless, it is never too late to start. I promise you today, I will love you like my mother and I will prove it you that I am your good son/daughter. Oh, mother; I love you from bottom of my heart. Please forgive me, please forgive us all for being so naive and ignorant. I will do all that in my capacity to make it all good.
your lovely son,
Manish
Dear India,
As we are moving towards our 69th Republic Day, we want to salute you for standing strong and giving us the opportunity to be a part of this wonderful spirit called India. It’s been an exciting journey and we’ve come a long way being the longest running democracy in the world. We know that we have a lot of problems, we are still struggling, and we’ve made a lot of mistakes. But between all the negative news and political drama,you’ve gone through, we have somehow forgotten that you as a nation, still stands tall and has much more potential than we think you have.
As Albert Einstein once said, “We owe a lot to the Indians, who taught us how to count, without which no worthwhile scientific discovery could have been made”. Today, as we stand at the cusp of another year, we want to appreciate all the wonderful achievements in the past decades and recall the moments when we have felt immense pride in calling ourselves ‘Indians’.
We are more educated than ever
We have moved on from 12% literacy rate back in 1950 to a whopping 74% in 2017.
To the space and back
From being the first nation to find water on Moon to successfully launching 104 satellites into a single mission, we have made ourselves proud and have been applauded in the entire world. We are also the only nation to reach Mars in the first attempt.
Getting higher and higher
We are a land of many highs – Highest cricket pitch in Chail, the highest bridge – Bailey bridge in Ladakh, the highest battlefield in Siachen, the highesttea plantation, golf course, petrol pump, ATM, railway line – things we are highly proud of.
Taking over the corporate world
The CEO of Google, Microsoft, Adobe, MasterCard, Cognizant & Pepsico are Indians. Do we need to say more?
Kabaddi, Kabaddi, Kabaddi
India has won every Kabaddi World Cup – all the men & women Kabaddi World Cups held till date!
Incredible wildlife
We are the only nation to have both Tiger and Lion as a part of our wildlife.
Science Day in Switzerland in honour of a great Indian
May 26th is celebrated as the Science Day in Switzerland because Late Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam visited Switzerland on that day. A man who never stopped making India proud.
You are Bangalored
A term added in the Oxford dictionary after major IT work was outsourced to Bangalore, India. Make sure to add this word to your dictionary as well.
Taking the world by the storm
It is widely believed that Indians are highly demanded employees the world over. Here’s some interesting statistics to back that –
38% of Doctors in America are Indians.
12% of Scientists in America are Indians.
36% of NASA employees are Indians.
34% of Microsoft employees are Indians.
28% of IBM employees are Indians.
17% of Intel employees are Indians.
13% of Xerox employees are Indians.
Water, water everywhere
We are the only nation that has an entire ocean named after it – Indian ocean.
This Republic Day, we want to thank you and tell you how honoured we are to be called Indians.Anddespite of all the problems, there’s a little bit of India in all of us, which drove us to becomerepublic 68 years ago and to this very day urges us to keep fighting and keep growing.