United We Stand

Why is it the case that we need any incident or accident rather to take place to stand united and act as a unit? All of us stand united, work together as a cohesive force to rescue the casualties. At that moment, we go so busy and get such devoted for the rescuing work that we even forget as to what religion and caste the subjects belong. We forget the rigid and difficult questions of cultural identities. The question, which stands, is, why can’t we be in the same state of mind always and forever. Why always some external force or agency is required for us to work in the most human way? The answer is that {we have gone such inhuman} it takes fountains of blood to provoke the feeling of love, humanity and our duty towards our country. When something happens, we start blaming others. The military services blame the Government sources. Ministers blame the foreign agents and then someone will blame someone else .The list is endless. Fact is that we all are equally responsible. I don’t know how long we will keep blaming each other like this. The time has arrived to take the responsibilities on ourselves.

This has been high time till we have waited for things to work out. But nothing's changed. India has been fighting against terrorism almost for two decades now. And what we have come to know is that the condition has deteriorated and been worsen. We can't wait for long and leave things on their own. We should stand and try to deliver.

We have heard a number of times "Nothing's going to be alright for this country" or "This country is going from bad to worse". I would like to raise a question to those who say these things. Why don’t they work for the betterment of this country? Why don’t they join the politics and political parties? Why don’t they join the Administrative services, become IAS or IPS and work for their country? Get into the system and make things happen. Just sitting with a cup of tea in your living room won't change anything. We will have to work for things to happen and work out.

It is a very disheartening fact that it’s been 60 years since our independence. And till date 30 % and above of
our population still lives below poverty line . A large number of people are suffering with fatal diseases like AIDS. We aren't still Polio free. Literacy is way below the average line of literacy in the world. Every year we are spending 60% on our Defence services and aren't able to roam freely in J & K. Rather than working as a strong cohesive force for the betterment of our country, we keep bitching and fighting on the grounds of the religion and caste.

If we keep fighting like this, it is not out of sight and not impossible that the word "SECULAR" will loose its importance for surely in INDIA.

Anurag Anand

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April 2008

April  2008
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