We achieved freedom at midnight, the darkness of the night has crept upon the future of India. We have been left with legacy called “Freedom” forfeited from our ancestors and today what “independence” means we must ask to ourselves. The dogma and spirit of freedom has been mollified, appeased by our inanition and sanguinary attitude. I remember a poem from Rabindranath Tagore called “where the mind is without fear” where he speaks about what he wanted to see of India some day but alas!
Veiled beneath the serene mask of independence lies the pariah of “Indianism”, under the disguise of each Indian’s anticipation to squelch the perfection.
India may not have rich deposits of natural resources but what we have by-default with us makes us superior to any other country of the world. I here describe few unnoticed points about ourselves so that we can be proudly called as Indians.
1. Cheapness: the first and the foremost quality that we Indians have procured as a legacy is cheapness. We have the world’s one of the cheapest car that is “Tata Nano”. The heart and the eye surgery in India is the cheapest in the world. Every book we buy comes out with” low price edition” for the subcontinent. We have world’s one of the cheapest train fair. That cheapness perhaps takes to another level of nimbleness. Thanks to “cheapness” we could give “zero” to the world. We have the world’s cheapest human resource available that’s why I.T sector is flocking around us.
This is the cheapness that carves out of us the intelligence in us. Let us realize that the tag “made in china” is outdated it is no more cheap let us carve the “made in India” tag to be the best and the cheapest available.
2. Jugaad: let me elucidate to you this quality. It actually started with DhiruBhai Ambani, who jeopardised the Sarkar-Raj for his taxes. “Frugile engineering” with a bit of Desi Tadka is called as “jugaad”. We can practically clear any encumbrance with our bit of “jugaad”. It is said that necessity is the mother of invention but who thinks of patenting anything when we have our “jugaad” in action. If there is no bridge we can adjust with our own hand built wooden bridges.
3. Copy and paste culture: we Indians thrive on the copy and paste. Let it be software industry that India banks on or the so called “inspiration” of the Bollywood movie directors we Indians are very good in this. And the major chunk of revenue that India gets is from this copy and paste culture.
So friends the “Time” is no longer the same it has changed itself to “itimes” so we need to change ourselves and “stretch ” our hands to perfection. So every young and ignited Indian let us awake ourselves and soar high nebulous rancour. Let’s kill the bureaucratical problems with our honesty.
The trail of tears that our ancestors have endured should not just go in vague. The countenance of India is tarnished by vice . India was once said that “a country where gold was found in ant hill ” and this must be restored. Independence has remained just a paradox.
Lets awake!!!