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Incredible India

What are about this country, which makes me defend it, all costs? Why do I bristle and get annoyed and raise my shackles to defend this country? Why do countless soldiers, army men, die defending its borders? Why do we all have the Indian ‘jazba’?

It’s around the corner, Independence day the day we got free from dictators who ruled us for two hundred years bleeding us die and plundering us taking it to their island. A divide and rule policy made them strong but an uprising and united front led to a change which set the tone for a new nation who has led to the front in all spheres under the developed countries nose. Shiv Pratap ,a Chandigarh based lawyer quotes John F Kennedy and says,” Ask not what your country can do for you…but what you can do for your country .”

We have been thumbed on every front over corruption, lack of facilities, poverty, minimal education and water and the worst of all people who sleep hungry at night and do not get two square meals a day. Yes, we are guilty and are guilty of all the accusations and more allegations you put on my country but, hey! See where we were when we started and where we have come. India is the only country in the world where people of different faiths religion and beliefs co –exist. Where we have incidents of racism, hatred and killings on the name of religion (the biggest divider of all) we also have stories, real life incidents and no concocted Bolly wood movies where a Hindu neighbor saves a Muslim brother. There are countless horror stories that get buried under good Samaritan acts where Hindus saved Sikhs.

Why do we love bringing out the negative and sound like a stereotype Westerner who always will look at the superficial and say how dirty India is? Well, not all of India is dirty; all that is India is not Slum dog.  Ask , Martha  a Spanish woman who has made India her home and hearth setting up a business, a family and i sin love with the culture and the mysteries of India. She says, ‘India is like a woman all secrets , some good, some bad but very desirable’. Once you are here , you get hooked . Amrita Atwal, a crusader lover of animals quotes Faiz and gives us hope that the next generation carries this fervor. She says,’ Do speak up, for your lips/thoughts are yet free

Do speak up, for your tongue is still yours

Do Speak, for your strong body is your own

And must speak, as your soul is still yours,

Heed the blacksmiths’ shop

Scorching flames turn the iron red hot

Tearing open the (jaws of) locks

every chain thus begins to break

time to speak, for this brief time is long enough

Just before your body and words die

do speak, for the truth still

must speak up, say what you must.

India is a country with the most beautiful diverse scenery possible in a country’s borders. From the northern tip of the imposing majestic Himalayas, to the southern beauty of the royal states who mesmerize with their temples and architecture to the sweeping East and the West and the heart Of India where wonders enchant at every nook and corner. We as a country are friendly, proud, always living with hope and zeal to succeed. An Indian will always fight the odds and comes through.   If , all that you want to see is the dirt well that’s what you will see but India has shown remarkable progress and success in its enterpreunial stories and its advancement in science and technology with the few who stayed back and the ones who are coming back. Highlight this independence day, the advancement in health, medicine, science, development in nano technology and the fact that the elusive intelligent Indian who left its shore is coming back to set up labs.  We have success stories in the  form of Dr Flora and his wife coming back in the field of biotechnology and scientists coming up to set up labs in humane genome mapping. There is also an Indian involved in the Mars Curiosity landing! Dr . Dhallu an NRI form England is still nostalgic about his growing up days in Punjab.

Shiv Pratap , a lawyer aptly sums up , "India was the motherland of our race, and Sanskrit the mother of Europe's languages: she was the mother of our philosophy; mother, through the Arabs, of much of our mathematics; mother, through the Buddha, of the ideals embodied in Christianity; mother, through the village community, of self-government and democracy. Mother India is in many ways the mother of us all"

This Independence Day stand up with pride, we made this country not some alien look alike from outer space aka the Rover that just landed at Mars. If we, don’t stand up and fight for our pride, and this nation and stop using the freedom fighters and martyrs as bargaining chips during election rallies as emotional attyachar we will all progress and say with pride that we live in Incredible India and that also Dil se.

Jai Hind.

Ps: I was not paid by the Government to sell India , this comes straight from the heart as a realist and not as an Utopian dreamer.