"Long years ago we made a tryst with destiny, and now the time comes when we shall redeem our pledge, not wholly or in full measure, but very substantially. At the stroke of the midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom..."
Golden words that poured hope, zeal and delight on the face of every Indian alive on 15th Aug, 1947. Hundreds of thousands of Martyrs spilled their blood for one noble cause... Independence. It has been a while and those good deeds are somehow getting gradually obliterated...
It is 2012, an era of Generation-X and what we witness today, indeed, is a period of utter independence... "Utter" specifically because majority of people around carry a common attitude... "Who gives a F*** man!!!" I agree, it won't be a precise notion to say that everything has gone on the dark side but again, is it what our forefathers died for?
Leave what happened in the past 65 years, let us rememeber of what has happened in past 1 year. Summing up the few issues that we touched upon in last one year, here can be a list...
- MSTC gold export scam (464 Crore fraud)
- Delhi surgical gloves procurement scam
- NHAI Highway Scam (30 Crore)
- Maharshtra Stamp duty scam (640 Crore)
- IGI Delhi Airport Scam (1,63,000 Crore)
And many many more...
We all have read it in newspapers, also have discussed it and have forgotten... Reason? The same attitude!!! "Who gives a F*** man!!!" I won't be putting the ghosts of the past together which have been haunting us throughout the period... May that be billions of rupees spent every year on Kasab and Afzal Guru, Adarsh Scam or mud-on-the-face we had due to CWG. On a slight positive lining, we witnessed Anna Hazare leading a campaign for Lokpal and our dear Generation-X rallying and following him by wearing caps and colouring faces with tag: "Mein Anna hu". And what next? We saw those pictures uploaded and shared on Facebook!!! Even worse, we had lousy females DJ Jenny D, Roslyn Khan and Yogita Dandekar going naked with body paint in support of the campaign. Isn't that a shrude reminisce of our history?
I, on a personal front, have seen people often screaming about brain drain. I, also witness (every now and then) "I hate those who go abroad" mentality people. We also want to stay here, see our nation become a super power, work hard, have a secured life and enjoy the fruits of this soil. But is there a slightest sliver of faith that this can happen? No offence to anybody but frankly, what worse can it get here? What social security is there? Are women safe? (For those who say, "Hell YES!!!) Please open the newspaper and read. Every other day I read about rapes, molestation, corruption, and women / men getting killed for dirty & disgustingly filthy reasons... But again, what we do? We boil our blood, throw the newspaper in disgust and get ourselves our potion of calm "Who gives a F*** man!!!"
I absolutely am not a revolutionary, neither am I someone extra ordinary to get the things in my hands and lead a brigade of anti-corruption and morality. But what I definitely am is the voice of a common man!!! I am a voice which travels every morning to office on the roads that can hardly be called good. I am a voice that fights every second for existence and I finally am a voice that always falls on dead ears. As cockroaches have lived for over aeons, we shall live as well... Modifying ourselves to deal with our cascading habitat and enjoying on small instances of happiness (Bravo!!! We got 6 Olympic medals :) )
We indeed have made a Tryst.. A tryst with Darwin's law: "Survival of the fittest"
A tryst with agony, a tryst with frustration in daily living, a tryst with our DESTINY!!!
Those souls, who poured their blood for freedom, if are seeing this, should be laughing on what has happened...
Indeed Jai Hind has limited its boundary only on Boundaries of this Mother nation where a handful of valiants are sacrificing themselves so that a handful of powerful men can exploit the remaining 1.2 billion living here...
What a Tryst!!!!
