Independence day

On 15th August we are going to celebrate the independence day. It will be our 63rd one. But in reality we don't even understand what independence is. Are we using this independence in the right way for which our fore fathers fought for hundreds of years with the British. If we are, then why our country is not a progressive one. Hu Shih, the former ambassador of China to USA once said that, "a group of slaves will never make a liberal and progressive country;such a country can be made  of independent-minded and free thinking people." 

The proud Indian Flag

Aren't we free thinking people! well the whole world, for thousands of years believed that Indians are the most free minded people in the whole World.

Mark Twain, The American author believed that,"India is , the cradle of the human race, the birthplace of human speech, the mother of history, the grandmother of legend, and the great grand mother of tradition, our most valuable and instructive materials in the history of man are measured in India only."

Rising to the top

In the words of Albert Einstein,"We owe a lot to the Indians, who taught us how to count without which no worthwhile scientific discovery could have been made."

Former Chinese ambassador to USA Hu Shih once mentioned that,"Indian conquered and dominated China culturally for 20 centuries without ever having to send a single soldier across her border."

Is n't it the proof of how Indians were culturally, economically open minded for the last thousands of years. so what is the problem now?

Why we are not what we were before? Does anyone got any answers. Lets start a series of posts on this issue.

 Rabindra Nath Tagore in his epic poem Geetanjali wrote about the awakening of the people of India which is as follows,

"Where the mind is without fear 
and the head is held high; 
Where knowledge is free; 

Where the world has not been 
broken up into fragments by 
narrow domestic walls; 

Where words come out from 
the depth of truth; 
Where tireless striving stretches 
its arms towards perfection; 

Where the clear stream of reason 
has not lost its way into the dreary 
desert sand of dead habit; 

Where the mind is lead forward by thee 
into ever-widening thought and action- 
Into that heaven of freedom, my Father, 
let my country awake."

Thank you. We will post the answers to this post in the next post.