IS INDIA REALLY INDEPENDENT?

At the stroke of the midnight hour,

when the world sleeps,

India will awake to life and feedom

                                                                           -Jawaharlal Nehru

We got Independence from British rule ,it has been 69 years since we have gained  independence. Every year on august 15th we see a great zeal running across the nation, evoking the thoughts of freedom and the pride of being an Indian. We are sure to see the 'Happy Independence Day ' hashtags and pictures trending on Twitter and Facebook and TV channels immersed in numerous deshbhakti songs to celebrate independence - yes freedom that we had got 69 years back from the British rule but a question arises “Are we really Independent today?”

Even after 69 years of achieving freedom ,our society is facing many problems such as  caste system, honour killings and dowry, to the refusal by courts to address marital rape as a crime, people blaming women for the crimes against them and lawyers defending the actions of rapists, in many communities women  are not allowed to speak up in homely affairs or even in their own life decision. Talking about the independence, the real history is something kind of different from the theories what we the people of India, are taught in our schools/colleges. Mahatma Gandhiji said that, ”The day a women can walk freely on the roads at night, that day we can say that India has achieved independence”. But we have not achieved that freedom today.

Independence is a term that applies to every individual rather than a whole nation. Until and unless an individual doesn’t have the freedom to speak up or the freedom to express, he or she is not independent. If an individual is not allowed to be decide even for his/her life, it is not independence. But the society is not a stagnet water, it’s  a flowing river,today we are  seeing many changes that’s happening in our society ,new plans of governament to make youths independent by inspiring them to start their own business. Addressing the nation on the eve of 69th Independence Day, the honorable President Pranab Mukherjee has rightly expressed his concern by saying, "the roots (of vibrant democracy) are deep but the leaves are beginning to wilt. It is time for renewal. If we do not act now, will our successors seven decades hence remember us with the respect and admiration we have for those who shaped the Indian dream in 1947?". Let us collectively take this responsibility of being truly free  by realizing that as we demand our rights, in the same way, we need to fulfill our duties too.

“Freedom not like a flower, but like a mountain from not allowed to be decide even for his/her life, it is not independence. But the society is not a stagnet water, it’s  a flowing river,today we are  seeing many changes that’s happening in our society ,new plans of governament to make youths independent by inspiring them to start their own business. Addressing the nation on the eve of 69th Independence Day, the honorable President Pranab Mukherjee has rightly expressed his concern by saying, "the roots (of vibrant democracy) are deep but the leaves are beginning to wilt. It is time for renewal. If we do not act now, will our successors seven decades hence remember us with the respect and admiration we have for those who shaped the Indian dream in 1947?". Let us collectively take this responsibility of being truly free  by realizing that as we demand our rights, in the same way, we need to fulfill our duties too.

“Freedom not like a flower, but like a mountain from which molten lava emerges and solidifies...
It is like clay that you can mould to create and it is up to you to create; 
it is a choice to create... 
Freedom is never giving up. Freedom is the absolute truth... and in truth there is valour..."