Yesterday I was portraying an image in my mind (of course because I can not draw with pen and paper, whenever I tried to draw a circle it came out in a banana shape). Thinking India as a living entity, she is lying throughout our map and many wolves and jackals were surrounding her and biting her at allover the edges. some places are torn apart and those parts are been hanging from the bloodstained jaws of those flesh eaters. Parasites are roaming on the leftovers. She is weeping in pain but bearing all of it.
Coming to think of it, I find out that wolves are the all financial big shots who see India only as a commodity to buy and sell and finally make profit. Jackals are like those heavy weight politicians who are selling all our wealth to others, from minerals to brains. And those parasites, not to mention, all those intellectuals(including me as well), who only make nothing but big shouts for those left overs. Suddenly I felt that I am missing something, and in number it is really big. Nearly 110 crores. The COMMON PEOPLE who making their day in and day out in this country. Most of them have the humanity and the pure love for their country. But surprisingly they are unseen. Why?
Coming to think of it, I find out that wolves are the all financial big shots who see India only as a commodity to buy and sell and finally make profit. Jackals are like those heavy weight politicians who are selling all our wealth to others, from minerals to brains. And those parasites, not to mention, all those intellectuals(including me as well), who only make nothing but big shouts for those left overs. Suddenly I felt that I am missing something, and in number it is really big. Nearly 110 crores. The COMMON PEOPLE who making their day in and day out in this country. Most of them have the humanity and the pure love for their country. But surprisingly they are unseen. Why?
The first and most important reason is of course the hard work they go through to earn 2 times bread. But ironically, this strongest reason is often used as the most convincing excuse. The second factor is of course the separation among us. We always separate us from others for mere or no reason at all. The third reason which I find the most influencing among the literate people of India is “We don’t know how to love”.
I am talking about the way to love our nation. By only listening and singing national anthem daily and saluting our national flag cannot give the completeness to the love what actually needed. First of all, when we fall in love for someone we know all good and bad about that person, or nearly all. It is very very natural. Then we encourage him or her to enhance the good qualities and ask to check the bad ones. But in any case we don’t leave that person only for the bad qualities. My point is, we must love our country like that only. We must love all the richness as well as the poverty of India. We must know how great our country is. One of the oldest civilization(far before the Semite civilization; Vimbethka or Sindhu civilization) we possess, can be said just as an example. There are many. Before learning about America so much, we must learn about our different tribes, whose history far more rich and exciting than those who have no humanity at all. Starting from our classical to folk music, a gold mine which we must explore and enrich ourselves. There are many. But one word. We must not turn our face away from the recent advances throughout the world. As I said earlier we have to use them to nullify the drawbacks of our India. Point is we have to do it with utmost love, a love for a brother by another brother, for a child by its mother. Then only we will understand by our heart to keep the country clean and prosperous in every aspect. We will not hate slums or slum dwellers. Because whom we love, we don’t care about the small scar on his or her face, on the contrary we want to heal the scar with our love.
This love, I don’t know how to grow at our heart. But when it will arise, I can definitely portray another where the 110 crore will be only visible entities, no wolves or parasites. Because whom we love we protect from all the odds, isn’t it.
