Independence Day Reckoning !
Our Nation’s 75th Independence Day! Wishing a day of gratitude for the efforts that went into making this nation possible and a day of reckoning for what was supposed to be and what we ended up with, while pondering on what can be. The 15th of August 1947 marked the breakaway from both the colonial rule as well as an internal strife, yet the evils and perils of both linger on to this day. But, what we have to realise is the fact that blood was shed and the martyrdom and sacrifice of millions prevailed over the imperial forces and the invaders and marauders many times in the past too. And yet this was an opportunity to rise together as a nation and march towards a golden era of the best in humanity, replete with reasoning, rationality and great resourcefulness, but more importantly the conscientious and conscious way of living that so defined India where humanity seems to be doing some soul searching for millennia and has been reaching out to the deepest, the most profound and groun