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Independence Day 2024-Part II

Has India benefited? If yes, how? how much? If not to the extent it should have, WHY? We now cannot blame it on subjugation, the conscripted laborer Indians who went through much worse, are now the most prominent citizens in respective nations where they were taken as slaves.  We cannot blame on invaders; we have had a straight eight decades of self-rule and governance. We cannot blame it on segregation, or systematic knowledge monopoly or restriction, we have more mobile phones and access to information than any other country.  Many would ask, what's wrong with how we are, we are okay with things as long as it all adds up a semblance of order amidst the chaos, we take pride in it and in the all-round mediocrity. Where Indians shine everywhere they migrate to and make it to the very top of the social ecosystem, when it comes to India, we lack intent, will and a determined concerted effort.  And by investing in our progressive agenda of responsible living and actions based on the an

Independence Day 2024-Part I

Every 15th August is an opportunity to celebrate, to commemorate and to contemplate! Greeting is a formality, but can it become an opportunity to contemplate, conserve and share the identity and experience of being Indian and Independent and an independent Indian.  This is more than celebrating the independence from 200 years of oppression from the British, we have to remember it was close to a thousand years of invasion, oppression, violence and destruction from the immediate predecessors the Mughals to a multitude of Assassin squads that came in repeatedly to take away the riches and exploit the region, trying to destroy our identity and eliminate our culture, bringing us to the knees by subjugation and killing all hope. But we stayed Indian all the way, albeit adopting new religions and traditions but still Indian at heart, spirt and soul. We still identify ourselves as Indians first. It is a testament and a reminder that despite having embroiled in a continuous thousand-year war, t