“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 led forward by thee
Into ever-widening thought and action
Into that heaven of freedom, my Father, let my country awake”
- Rabindranath Tagore…
Today when a bomb blasts many innocent public are mercilessly killed without any faults and committing any crime.
There are security checks everywhere from shopping malls to offices, hotels and other places. With so many checking’s are we able to stop these bomb blasts completely ? Honestly we have to say NO. The numbers of blasts are increasing day by day by leaps and bounds and the numbers of deaths are increasing in geometric progression.
Public fear to go for pilgrimage, fear to go for work, school and colleges, fear to attend public meetings to hear the speech of eminent leader. Even they fear to walk on streets. Their fears are not unfounded.
We are not free. In fact we are going further and further away from freedom.
We proudly say that India is a free country. Its been 63 years of Independence. The infrastructure has changed, the education level has increased, lifestyle is broaden, glamour, style, entertainment, market, and what not. But are we really free? The system we living is basically corrupt, isn't it?
In our country right from a traffic offender to terrific murderer can easily escape punishment with the help of two P’s - Purse (read suitcase) and Politician, two C’s Cash and Corruption. CPC (Civil Procedure Code) and CrPC (Criminal Procedure Code) cannot withstand the wrath of the present day CPC ( Corruption - Politicians - Cash ).
We are still slaves even after 63 years.
- Slaves in the hands of corrupt Politicians,
- Slaves of corrupt systems where government department behave live a hungry wolf.
- Slavery to bribery.
We are not free to live without fear of robbery, kidnapping, and killing for small money. We are now under the arms of corruption, disorder, inefficiency of our ruling administration and the corrupt politicians. Power is on the hands of a few and misuse of this is also noted in many cases.
The daily papers carried the stories of the cost of a member of parliament gone from 25 crores. what it shows? The politics is fully on corruptions and scams. A horse trading to save the skin. We are not free to say anything. If you say anything, the safety will be in question.
The battle for economic and social freedom is still on. There are many incidences where an individual’s rights being violated. An individual still cannot raise his voice against wrong cannot even question. The market in today's scenario , the richer are getting richer, poorer are getting poorer and a common middle class man is a crushed vegetable of a sandwich of both the classes.
The meaning of independence is not the right to buy things, or to not be paying taxes, or not having poverty either, the meaning of independence is the right to work for one’s own welfare. And in an independent nation like India, we do have that right.
Freedom will come when we will stop dividing ourselves on the basis of religion, country, gender and financial stability. Freedom will come when we will unite even though nature has divided us. Freedom will come when everyone will eat and study. When every baby irrespective of it’s a boy or a girl will be allowed to live we will call ourselves free. We will call ourselves free when we can come back from the work peacefully with no anxieties. We are really not free.
