Phir aa gya 15 August! National Holiday... Hota kya hai aaj? Azaadi ka din, independence day! Matlab kya hai azaadi ka? Ki ab hamein kisi ki gulami nahi karni padegi! Kisi ki bhi nahi? Na...
This day after 69 years of independence is to me like another Sunday! With two generations of distance between the day and today, we love this day, like we love Sunday! Yes sure, we post on facebook, change profile pictures on watsapp and Like cheesy nationalist quotes, for one day we celebrate the fact that our nation got free of oppression. But that doesnt change anything in us...
Recently I watched the movie - Gandhi, twice! It has some very accurate scenes of India back then and shows the mindset of people and leaders, surely there was a difference! Gandhi stood apart because each of his idea and decision were internally motivated by a principle - Whats right is right and we must take the route of right coz at the end right prevails over wrong! He knew ramayana, mahabharata, he wasnt a pandit but he took out the essence- to stand by the right! Jinnah was quite the opposite as stated - He says - India wants freedom and we will take it by force even if what we turn out to be a Terrorist State! I instantly attached his vision to current state pakistan, leaders are whom we follow and thats what we become! We became Gandhi, India to this day is Gandhi! Jawaharlal Nehru became Gandhi, Patel, Ambedkar and everyone around him became Gandhi! We have people among us who talk about force and murders and evil, they arent Gandhi but India is Gandhi! Now, Gandhi isnt a person, he is a mindset.
Each Independence day, is a reminder of this simple fact - Of being Gandhi! It is difficult to be one... Your name is Ram doesnt mean you are Ram! So be gandhi... How?
By being right in your soul! Examining and eliminating the evil within you slowly, to be simple and yet driven, to live with a principle and let no wrong take away your right! Believe that rightness is always cool and that wrong, which is always strong like any bollywood villain throughout the movie loses and perishes at the end! So Start with yourself and fight your own evils, be gandhi and be independent finally!!!
Satyamev Jayate!
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