Are we really free??
The question is broad in sense because that forces us to ask another question, FREE FROM WHAT??
That brings up a plethora of issues starting from freedom in our own nation to freedom of expression to freedom of one's privacy, and the issues are never ending. But the answer to all of this is one small word with huge implications, a resounding NO.
Someone might claim that I have gone insane or might say I am being too pessimistic. But I will only smile and say, "wait and watch".
Let us for example look at the following scenarios.
1. India became so called Independent in 1947 and our constitution became enforced in 1950. Now that was a cool six decades back. And yet backward people have become more backward. People have become more and more divided on the lines of communities and castes. Vote bank politics rules the roost. Reservations on the line of caste has more priority than merit. Are we free from caste-ism yet???!!!
2. Today an IAS officer is being shunted out unceremoniously for doing his/her duties. The political parties are joining hands not to take the country forward but to thwart the citizens of the nation from accessing their privy deals. Are we free to voice our concerns???!!!
3. According to Government an urban individual can survive at Rs. 27 per day and hence cannot be considered to be BELOW POVERTY LINE !!! Are these guys joking??? Then who can be called to be below poverty line, "those that are dead due to hunger ???". And we are free !!!!
4. China and Pakistan have staked claims to vast amount of our territory; Pakistan has been inflicting wounds one after the other and we shamelessly extend the olive branch to them knowing well how adept they are in backstabbing and we say we are free!!
5.From getting a simple work done such as a driver's license to a more complex one such as a house registration, one cannot get through the hurdle of BABUS without being fleeced. And we are free!!!
6. A person cannot really practice his choice of religion for the fear of being murdered by the religious fanatics. And we are free!!
7. A girl and a boy were mercilessly butchered to death in the name of FAMILY HONOUR because they made the mistake to fall in love. And numerous such incidents happen almost on a daily basis. And we are free!!
I really wonder was this the freedom that our freedom fighters envisaged for us?
Friends, are we really free?? For if this is freedom then I am not sure about the meaning of archaism and anarchy... Probably we were better under the British Rule for atleast we could have pointed fingers at others rather at ourselves which is far more painful.
The question is broad in sense because that forces us to ask another question, FREE FROM WHAT??
That brings up a plethora of issues starting from freedom in our own nation to freedom of expression to freedom of one's privacy, and the issues are never ending. But the answer to all of this is one small word with huge implications, a resounding NO.
Someone might claim that I have gone insane or might say I am being too pessimistic. But I will only smile and say, "wait and watch".
Let us for example look at the following scenarios.
1. India became so called Independent in 1947 and our constitution became enforced in 1950. Now that was a cool six decades back. And yet backward people have become more backward. People have become more and more divided on the lines of communities and castes. Vote bank politics rules the roost. Reservations on the line of caste has more priority than merit. Are we free from caste-ism yet???!!!
2. Today an IAS officer is being shunted out unceremoniously for doing his/her duties. The political parties are joining hands not to take the country forward but to thwart the citizens of the nation from accessing their privy deals. Are we free to voice our concerns???!!!
3. According to Government an urban individual can survive at Rs. 27 per day and hence cannot be considered to be BELOW POVERTY LINE !!! Are these guys joking??? Then who can be called to be below poverty line, "those that are dead due to hunger ???". And we are free !!!!
4. China and Pakistan have staked claims to vast amount of our territory; Pakistan has been inflicting wounds one after the other and we shamelessly extend the olive branch to them knowing well how adept they are in backstabbing and we say we are free!!
5.From getting a simple work done such as a driver's license to a more complex one such as a house registration, one cannot get through the hurdle of BABUS without being fleeced. And we are free!!!
6. A person cannot really practice his choice of religion for the fear of being murdered by the religious fanatics. And we are free!!
7. A girl and a boy were mercilessly butchered to death in the name of FAMILY HONOUR because they made the mistake to fall in love. And numerous such incidents happen almost on a daily basis. And we are free!!
I really wonder was this the freedom that our freedom fighters envisaged for us?
Friends, are we really free?? For if this is freedom then I am not sure about the meaning of archaism and anarchy... Probably we were better under the British Rule for atleast we could have pointed fingers at others rather at ourselves which is far more painful.
