INDEPENDENCE DAY

India wakes up;
In the little buds,
Enclosed beauty and trapped fragrance,
The dew drops dancing in the soft sun rays,
Far away from the flower's essence;
People passing by,
Admiring the beauty of drops,
Breathtakingly alluring, sensuously pure;
And yet the heart remains enclosed,
The dew discovered, desired, explored,
The bud plucked, the flower gone,
Dried up veins and life torn,
The tongue savoring the sickly sweet dew,
Eyes enthralled by the non-existant hue,
The petals that drapes the darkness;
And reflects the light;
The dew that sparkles happiness;
And keep the tears out of sight.


it's the 61st birthday of independent INDIA...we are supposed to be the fastest growing economy in South Asia....and in a few years we'll be catapulted to the league of developed countries; true,the nation has progressed, but aren't there glaring frailties in the system of governance which are being subsided by the utter gloss of pro-capitalist measures....has INDEPENDENCE in the true sense, upliftment of the masses in it's true virtue arrived as yet?
only a few days back we were proud of being Indians when Abhinav Bindra won an olympic gold...our first in the history of the games.why??and how many of us have that verve to do something for our country...to make it a better place; we are true patriots only when india's on the cricket field,rest of the time we are tax-paying Indian citizens..oh!we do one thing.we criticize and debate..about anything and everything under the sun... guess therein lies the problem...what is it with the Indian race? are we under a permanent intellectual stigma?or has our physical weakness caught up with our minds as well..I wonder.

"oh mother india! do you have a message to convey to the billions of your children?"
"yes, dear. I'm utterly disappointed. but all is not lost. yet. "

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