Is India Truely Independent

Is India Really Independent? “Is India really independent?”, this is a question lingering in many Indian minds. Why does this question arise in our mind today? Did we not recieve our nation’s freedom on 15th of August 1947? Then even after 64 years as a free country, why are we still in binds of indirect slavery? It’s time to get some answers. But first, on what terms do we say that we are still not free. We are not torchered or mercilessly killed by English men, but it is true that we are being mercilessly killed by our own people. How? The daily fights that happen on the streets, the accidents on rail, bomb blasts. Have we ever realised that these killings are the very same as the Jalianwala Bagh incident? How is it different? Innocent people were killed then, the same continues now. Only thing that can be said, is that, when Dyer had commanded the mass killing, he was an unmasked man, but today’s Dyers are masked men. People do things for their benifit, yes it is human nature to do so, yet there are some, who are struggling today to bring freedome to this land. One among them would be Anna Hazare. The Mahatma of the 21st century, a man who who thursts for his country to be free from her chains. Though it was not necessary for him, he started the battel to freedom. If our country was truely free and her governers really faithful to her then why would an innocent man like Hazare be jailed? The constitution of India offers free expression of speech but the question is ‘Is jail the reward for practicing it?’, if this question has a negative answer then lawfully he was not justified just like the days of the great Mahatma Gandhi, who was also jailed for fighting for what was rightfully his and the nations. This is not a single case that resembles the British India. The common wealth games 2010, Delhi, is another example of India’s resemblance to her past form. The British had stolen what belonged to us in the name of British property but over 100 Crores rupees were spent on the name of common wealth but we all know where all the money ended up in. We cant blame the Mughals and the Britishers, they were invaders, it was their work to invade the property of others, but what about the Indians whao exploit their own property? Is this all? Definitely not ! Modern slaves – Indian professionals working abroad. It’s a well know fact that most Indians fly abroad for better oppturnities of work. It is not wrong to do so, yet, is it right to be enslaved by them? What is ment here is that abroad workers do not work as much as the Indians do in the forigen countries. They do it for money but then again it is the same as the olen days where our enslaved fore fathers worked under our rulers. They did it for money too, but what were the worth? Slaves. Great leaders like Rao fought for the freedom of Indian women. What of it today? They are sitll almost the same. Still women and children are slaughtered for dowrey and gender. Women have fought against men and have made a stand in this society, yet, they are slaves even today. How so? They work soo much to prove they are equal to men they have forgotten their true roles as good daughters,wives and mothers. Children in today’s India have become very similar to that of forigen children, their parents are so busy that they dont have time to spare for them. This is the condition of families of todays India. In the old India, not many youths were found as many of them would gladly accept death in rather than to be the slaves of their enemies its the same today, many youths kill them selves for unnecessary reasons such as failure in education, depression, ragging by peers and the funniest of all faliure of love. If death wasthe only solution to every problem then today the world would probably be a massive burial sight ! Why not think of ways to overcome personal drawbacks and fight back to make things go in a good way? But no – today’s mentality is ‘aslong as I or in some cases my family dosent suffer I am fine with everything around me’. The previous statement can be justified. In films, every hero fights the villian only when he is directly effected by him – his family, friend or mostly lover. This happens in real life but most cases unknown to us. No one thinks of killing the villian for others sake, but the moment he has a personal bad experience he is ready to turn to a serial killer. Kill or die is today’s stratergy. Prize hike is a problem faced by every Indian but how many protests to we get? No need for guns and warfare, scilent and peaceful ones are good enough and that is what we do BE SCILENT AND DO NOTHING, that is exactly why we suffer this way. Protesting in a scilent way and doing nothing are totally two differrent things and we need to understand that. Blind belief – still a great problem in India. In the olden days people believed anything and everything and hence they were easily fooled even after more than 1000 years of being fooled for no reason we continue to be the same. Religion is not a bad thing but it is mandetory to get our facts and beliefs straightened by ourselves rather than to believe in someone soo blindly, making him rich and later regetting what we have done. We could rather judge the facts and avoide an unnecessary loss. Farmers – the food suppliers of our country. How is their situation anyway different from the ones we had way back in the British days ? Not much different atall. They used to be brutally murdered out of debt and now? Its the same even now just two years ago more than 5000 farmers killed themselves for the very same reason. Police encounters – punishment for criminals without court judgement. Maybe the criminals dying in encounters do deserve such deaths yet lawfully everyone has a right to defend themselves at the civil court. We cant always gurantee that everyone killed in these encounters were really criminals because any information can easily be forged.How is this similar to the captive India? Very simple, encounter or the older name ‘open fire’ or ‘shoot at sight’ was the most common form of killing patriots and even protesting civilians and even history has lost count of howmany Indians have lost their lives in this manner. Corruption – yes the corruption existed in India for a long time but as time passed by noone but we ourselves are to be blamed. Who caused corruption is not the issue the thin is why do we accept corruption and let it enslave us all the more. There must be unity among Indians and if one is brave enough to protest corruption another must support him even if there is any loss to be delt with. What is left of the country which was ones regurded as the queen of nations? What more is left to corrupt? The system is corrupt, the public is corrupt, education, culture, everything is corrupted. Dispite all these things India tops in certain feilds. That counts a lot. This is nothing new from the very begenning India always had the brain that could change the world and even today it still continues to stunn the world with its innovations. Yet it is a sad fact that many such innovations are sold to countries for a price and the due credit we deserve dosent come to us. Take cricket for instance – how can one possibily believe that the team that wins the world cup loses in a mear test match? The master blaster – king of cricket – comes out of a game without even single run? If one believes these things to be co-insidence then how more blind can one possibly be? It is a privilage to be around people who are not your own, ones who are looking at you to see what you can offer but only under the condition that the glory comes to your nation not to the nation that lets you display your skill. Be grateful to them but never forget where you belong. So the final question is ‘Do we really want to be free?’. If the answer is yes then its is for us to act and not just blame the system around us. Even if our great leaders come back to life they cant free our country unless we want to be free. So it is best to deciede and act now. Dont ask the question ‘Is India Really Free?’, because the answer is definitely a no, always ask the question ‘Do We Truely Want To Be Free?’.
- Martina.Moumita.Biswas
II B.Sc Computer Science
KKCAS.