Independence day celebrations.....

15th aug 2009, we celebrated our 62nd Independence day...its a day which is remembered by every Indian..And its a day to salute our national heros who laid their lives for our freedom..Its a day which is to be celebrated as our national festival..In each and every corner of our motherland this festival is celebrated with immense joy and pride.Its on this day that we unfurl our tricolour as a sign that we the people of India are the rulers of our country and that the soveriegnty of our State is intact with us..this day is our national holiday...so on and so forth....this is the standardised speech which we hear every Independence Day the only difference is the no of yr which v r celebrating it....
It is very "disheartning" to see the current celebrations of our national festival..On this Independence Day i just came to experience the grave reality as to how v Indians salute our nation on this day.this yr i had been at my aunt's place to celebrate the independence day.my aunt's place is a residential complex wherein there are about 200 flats and about 500 people residing there.On the eve of this day housing committe called the residents of the locality to take part in the I'day celebrations.And to my surprise only 50 people turned up for the celebration which means only 10% of ppl came to honour their nation.In his famous I'day speech by our 1st PM of independent India said" At the stroke of the midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom. A moment comes, which comes but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new, when an age ends and when the soul of a nation, long suppressed, finds utterance.... We end today a period of ill fortune, and India discovers herself again.....Truly v did discover a new era on that very epic day........
The time has now come to rediscover ourselves...when 62yrs back on the same day India rose from the deep sleep now we are just sleeping when v are to pay a tribute to our nation...The very practical reason for this negligence is that 15th aug is a national holiday so everyone is at home also if this day comes near to a weekend then its a treat to many as they get a long vacation where they can enjoy a long outing with their families unnoticing the fact that these responsible parents must stay back n nuture the feeling of national pride in the hearts of their children also they must make them aware of the fact that the nation which they are residing is free because of the sacrifices made by our national heros..A feeling of patriotism must be developed in them as they are the "torch bearers" of our country in the near future.Every Indian must celebrate this day with pride and pay a tribute to their nation and to make this possible i guess that this day v should not be given "national holiday" Instead offices,schools,colleges,and various must be open this day just to celebrate this very wonderful day atleast half day should be made "mandatory"..because if a particular thing is not made mandatory we tend to take it for "Granted" and i just feel that this Day should not be taken for granted..So we as Indians must rise for this occasion and try and make this National Festival to live upto its name and not just be enjoyed as any other "holiday"...its just essential to be aware of this fact that we hav fought for our freedom and this fight should not wither away from the minds of the new generation and as "responsible citizens " of free India we as a nation should stand for this cause......JAI HIND!!!

Birthday gift

Last yr My Birthday celebrations were on as they take place every year.lots of friends visited my place and i had a blast.The party was good it had cakes chocolates and all sort of junk food that we ppl always have.I had received nice Gifts and some of them very precious from my mom and dad.that day went on very smooth and just perfect.later that night i turned on my TV and saw a documentary featuring the deaths due to "malnourishment" in our country that sight of the documentary just pinched my heart.All the events of that day just past b4 my eyes that how did i celebrate my bday with havin loads of food n gifts and at da same time ppl of my country are falling prey to malnourishment n food scarcity......
That night a thought just came to my mind as to how should v ideally celebrate our Bday.. Its like u can save jus Rs.2 daily from ur spendings that u do on junk food n all sorts of wastage of vry valuable resource. After one year u would hav approx arounf Rs.750 or so.Now take that money and just find a place in your town where u can distribute Food items purchased by this amount..Or just visit an Orphanage and distribute the snacks to them and see the happiness on the faces of those children havin satisfied by your just a small deed of visiting them n givin them good food to them..Now the feeling of making those children happy is i biggest gift that u can give to yourself on your birthday...
India with a population of about 113crores so on each day there ll b thousands who ll b celebrating their bdays if 50% of them decide to celebrate their bday in this fashion i guess then the no. of deaths occuring due to malnourishment would reduce by atleast 10%...
So from this yr onward i hav decided to give this BIRTHDAY GIFT to myself and celebrate the bday in this fashion.So guys n gals just giv it a thought that our vry small deed can help changing life of many...............