India, a nation on the path of sure-shot development with a hundred and twenty seven million citizens and thirty-six millions divinities on its side still lingers between unsolved issues of excessive pollution and communal riots. The India of Gandhi, of Nehru and of Jinnah that is now approaching its 68th independence is yet to ink a full-stop on communal differences. No matter how far we travel on the road of development we first need to eradicate the differences between ourselves and accept the entire nation as one family and one home. Only then shall we be able to enjoy the prosperity of this golden land.
In the past six decades since independence, this year has been a lot different and a lot expected. Not for many reasons, but just for one. Some called it a ray of hope, some a last chance, some transformation while others called it MODIfication. One man shouldered all hopes in the second most populous democracy and seventh largest country in the world. From eradicating corruption, to turning down inflations and spiking up development; little or more, to every question and to every problem ‘MODI’ remained the answer. And so happened as it was dreamt, Narendra Damodardas Modi assumed the Prime Minister’s office on 26th of May following a massive victory throughout the nation. In one of his initial thanksgivings he conveyed that, “Good days are about to come,” and ever since the expectancy of the common man was raised to even tremendous heights.
Surely in the present time India is hitting ahead on a road map of development with massive projects like urban planning, bullet trains and various other developments. But the question of concern is while one party tries bringing better facilities and hopes, the other starts finding loopholes to criticize it. Will we ever come out of this cat and mice game? Will we ever join hands and progressively step ahead into a modern India or are we always going to play small talks-small acts until the coming many decades?
Apart from our political differences there are two things that have severely thrashed our global image on a much larger context. One, our half a century old communal difference between Hinduism and Muslimism, and the other our never ending habit of living in an environmental dustbin. Though my words might seem hurtful, but ironically deep down we know that it’s a bitter truth.
Anger is a state of mind, and often what follows anger is crime. Crimes in our nation are categorized into two different types. One where we report to the bureaucracy and the other where we ourselves become the deciding factor. The former is when it happens between any two common people, and the latter is when it happens between a Hindu and a Muslim or vice versa. Ever since independence our ruling parties have used our communal differences for their benefits and we as a good meal have served their appetite. And perhaps, if such circumstances prevail we might never become the good-so-dreamed brothers of our community.
What seems as a bitter relation between these two communities in India through the media-perspective is not what exactly prevails in our personal lives. No matter where we live and in what circumstances we’ve grown up, irrespective of what religion we belong to or which community we descend from we never judge a person in terms of caste and religion while becoming friends. Friendship in life has always remained a virtue, not a judgment. It is a feeling of happiness and not a decision. We now need to cherish our friendship more than the pre-occupied false thoughts and no-wonder we will be soon on commendable heights as a nation of brothers. With each stroke upon the differences of these two communities the question on each of our part repeatedly arises, ‘If not now, when?’ So, let us start preparing for the coming soon good days by doing what’s needed, so that we as a nation celebrate together the good days when they arrive.
In the past six decades since independence, this year has been a lot different and a lot expected. Not for many reasons, but just for one. Some called it a ray of hope, some a last chance, some transformation while others called it MODIfication. One man shouldered all hopes in the second most populous democracy and seventh largest country in the world. From eradicating corruption, to turning down inflations and spiking up development; little or more, to every question and to every problem ‘MODI’ remained the answer. And so happened as it was dreamt, Narendra Damodardas Modi assumed the Prime Minister’s office on 26th of May following a massive victory throughout the nation. In one of his initial thanksgivings he conveyed that, “Good days are about to come,” and ever since the expectancy of the common man was raised to even tremendous heights.
Surely in the present time India is hitting ahead on a road map of development with massive projects like urban planning, bullet trains and various other developments. But the question of concern is while one party tries bringing better facilities and hopes, the other starts finding loopholes to criticize it. Will we ever come out of this cat and mice game? Will we ever join hands and progressively step ahead into a modern India or are we always going to play small talks-small acts until the coming many decades?
Apart from our political differences there are two things that have severely thrashed our global image on a much larger context. One, our half a century old communal difference between Hinduism and Muslimism, and the other our never ending habit of living in an environmental dustbin. Though my words might seem hurtful, but ironically deep down we know that it’s a bitter truth.
Anger is a state of mind, and often what follows anger is crime. Crimes in our nation are categorized into two different types. One where we report to the bureaucracy and the other where we ourselves become the deciding factor. The former is when it happens between any two common people, and the latter is when it happens between a Hindu and a Muslim or vice versa. Ever since independence our ruling parties have used our communal differences for their benefits and we as a good meal have served their appetite. And perhaps, if such circumstances prevail we might never become the good-so-dreamed brothers of our community.
What seems as a bitter relation between these two communities in India through the media-perspective is not what exactly prevails in our personal lives. No matter where we live and in what circumstances we’ve grown up, irrespective of what religion we belong to or which community we descend from we never judge a person in terms of caste and religion while becoming friends. Friendship in life has always remained a virtue, not a judgment. It is a feeling of happiness and not a decision. We now need to cherish our friendship more than the pre-occupied false thoughts and no-wonder we will be soon on commendable heights as a nation of brothers. With each stroke upon the differences of these two communities the question on each of our part repeatedly arises, ‘If not now, when?’ So, let us start preparing for the coming soon good days by doing what’s needed, so that we as a nation celebrate together the good days when they arrive.
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