What we have notlearnt during fifty years of Independence. - Write about the given topic.
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After more than 55 years of independence, India continues to reel under poverty, hunger and disease. Corruption is rampant and social inequities continue as never before and are now perhaps more embedded in the social milieu; thanks to the social engineering done by our petty politicians in the name of caste and religion.
Whereas other nations have gone on to make a name for themselves the ones that attained their independence along with India in the world order, India seems to be struggling to create an identity of its own and perpetuate a medieval culture incompatible with the modern information age.
To reflect on what we have not learnt since independence would amount of writing an epic whereas writing on what we have learnt would be like writing a one-page journal. In a nation of self-seekers, we have always put self before society and before the nation at large.
In spite of being the first country in the world to launch a family planning Programme, we are now a nation of about one billion people; thanks to the lopsided and hollowed policies of the government and the indifference of the people, we have become and second-most populated nation in the world sitting on a pile of human dynamite waiting to explode for its own destruction.
Each year the government machinery spends crores of rupees educating the population on family planning by means of advertising on the mass-media, distributing free contraceptives and the like but we stubbornly refuse to learn. Despite the growing population, people are heard talking about the need for a big family; about how a girl is Paraya Dhan and about the need to have a son to carry on the family lineage; son is thus preferred to a daughter and people go to any extent to beget a son.