I personally feel we must celebrate Independence Day...We cannot just sit back discouraged with all the bad things happening in India...we must see the positives too and sitting back and repenting about what is there is an attitude which no Indian should adopt...we must work for betterment of this nation and not just by saying it or putting it here as a comment but we should sincerely do that...Bad deeds of others should not discourage us to be honest or encourage us to be like them...we have to be different as we all are and its a matter of just exploring our potentials to make a difference...lets join hands and counter terrorism, AIDS, floods, and all that makes us feel should be dealt with strongly...we cannot just keep criticising india as we normally do, rather than each one of us working for its betterment...this may sound too idealistic and not true but i dont feel its difficult to do...we have to see what we do and not what others do or what we expect others to do...if we do right we will never repent to be a part of India...its just that future of india lies in our hands...its how we shape it...if each one of us put in our efforts, we can make it India of our dreams...Lets make our dreams come true!!!

I think we must . celebrate the I-Day. Unfortunately most people don’t feel anything as they used to about the I-Day. Reasons could vary but we should not forget those who sacrificed their lives for us. And we should not forgive those who are forgetting this.

Mr. Amit Roy,

I think we must address the problem of population, which is mother of all problems hence quite perennial in India. The problems you are discussing is of course just seems imminent in present time. Do not swept away by your feet on the U.S. rhetoric of countering terrorism.

Further even AIDS and floods indeed our problem but these are something your hands are tied to a great extent since it cannot be resolved overnight and according to wishes. Sure, if wishes were horses, beggers might ride.

Dear All the beloved citizen of India.

First of all let me congratulate all the India community living in India and abroad ” a very happy and glorious 60th INDEPENDENT DAY”
If we see the trend of celebration of all the festival in all over the world and in all the community/Religion, the base line is same. At the beginning of festival we commit our self something (the message given by that festival) and the very next day we forget that. We celebrated Dashara and we commit our self to kill all the bad evil inside us but immediately next day we forget that and started doing all the evil. We celebrated EID and hug each other’s to make everyone our brother and sisters and very next day we start fight between our selves.
The bottom line is we are expecting too much from a common human being. We should not forget that we humans are the social animals, having all sort of good and bad things. God has created a good man and a bad man in a same way like he created a lion and a Goat. So till the last day of this universe there will be a fight between a good man and a bad man. The common word now the days used by every politician around the world is ”PEACE”. Actually this is totally a glorified word and infect exist only for the fraction of time in this planet. See the million years of history of humans, its all about the fight and the concept is “might is right”. if you disagree with me then see what is happening in Lebanon. Even the most civilized and Democratic nation of the world is killing the human on daily basis in the name of so called “PEACE”.
We should not think so much on this topic. The world will move like this till the end of the last day of PLANET. We all humans will search the PEACE all the time and will fight again and again and again to find the PEACE, which we will never get because GOD had not created this.
Some one written somewhere that the selling of Baby for just Rs. 21 is a very shameful act done by that mother but we forget to thanks that mother who shown courage and bring that child on the earth and not aborted him/her during pregnancy which our so called educated and literate people do on daily basis. (See the case of Punjab where in a well 30 girl fortes found)
Do dear friend “don’t worry, be happy” because even though with lots of evils things present in this world we Indians are the best citizen in the world. We help each other in the time of devastation (last year flood in Mumbai shows that) and not like the Katrina victims (last year in USA) where looting and rampage was the clear sight and ultimately the govt. have to issue the SHOOT AT SIGHT order to prevent that, and this all happens in the most civilized (so called) nation of the world.
Every civilized citizen will speak against the corruption but next day he will open his mouth for the demand of dowry, many civilized citizen will curse the govt. for failing to supply the electricity in their area but they never forget to bribe the line man to make their meter default so that they will receive the minimum bill, many civilized citizen will curse the corruption and dishonesty in police system but when the Jessica Las was murdered in front of 100 of so called high society and civilized persons, they all keep mum. So dear friend don’t thing so much and enjoy the life because this world will move in the same way for coming thousand and thousand of years.
Only one thing that we can do to try to make our self (individually) a good, honest, civilized and discipline citizen and you will see after some time (say another thousand year) the world is changing. Who knows by looking our good behavior God will force to create the “PEACE”.
Till then bear with this.
Wish you all the best.

Independence Day reminds us every year the country’s journey towards a state of perfection- to be in the list of Developed nations.Celeberation is essential to review the progress and rethink about he lapses.
As we are moving to perfect state we are today discussing about problems.
Being in the teaching profession I personally feel that our kids in the schools are not being groomed in a manner so that they feel for their country and fellow citizens which is later leading to brain drain, terrorism and all sorts of misdeeds.
I do not find children feeling proud of their natioanal anthem and singing the verses” India is my country and all Indians are my brother sisters” which I still remember word to word.
Let us do something to find out the root cause of hatred and dissatisfaction which is leading to several other problems and as highlighted by you is terrorism.

hi....i should pleasure to inform u that india should celebrate its 60th independence day with pride.b’coz out of every six people in the world one is indian so out every six problems world face one is indias, still india right now really shining....so we should....

it has been 59 years since we became free even now we see poverty,illiteracy.Situation is no doubt very grim but I personally feel we must celebrate independence daywith great pride. By not celebrating our ID we are not going to acheive anything but by celebrating it and teaching our young people its importance and the sacrifices made by our great leaders we can create good citizens of tomorrow.

Those who feel it should not be celebrated should take an oath that they will do MINIMUM ONE thing till next 15th August to make themselves feel like celebrating or forget the feeling of Nationhood.

Go to Jalian wala Bagh, Cellular Jail, Amar Jawaan, Jhansi and countless such places, we need to respect the people who have given us an existence. The borders those are defended by someone who never gets a recognition, people who have done ANYTHING constructive for India.
At the same time we must curse the people who had pulled us down every moment by dividing us over religions, communalism, corruption, anti national thoughts.
We surely are developing but over pace doesn’t match with our neighbors even things should be changed bottom to top no doubt but this doesn’t gives anyone a right to say against respecting and celebrating 15th of August as a day of pride the end of blood shed and the pay the homage who have sacrificed till now those were great men, I don’t even know if I have that courage in me to repeat that heroics, had we been like that and could have fought current evils we could even have had a better nations. Its all us to blame of whatever had been bad we could have been better and we have to struggle to be better.
Lot has to be done with population a rule which governs all equally, respect and right to women, by no means I can say India is a great country, but its not bad enough to be hated :-( It has its problems diversified due to illiteracy and ill education but someday people with right tools overcome them.
Let it be bad India or good India I am an Indian and happy to be so at times with immense pride when we achieve something and at times with my head down to see misery to so many Indians.

Jai Hind

Good Article, On the eve of our 59th independence day, the country need not look back to all its problems to decide on whether these post independent years were a success or failure. All we need is a little change
I also read a very good article at http://www.merinews.com/catFull.jsp?articleID=123355&catID=2&category=Nation&rtFlg=rtFlg

India doesnt need to celebrate this independence day what with many states under water, no power, terrorist threats, natwar singh, manikrao gavit etc. are we really independent? by celebrating this independence day let the congress govt. not show how immune it is to common mans problems and how insensitive it is to our country’s current situation. Let the govt. spend the crores it will spending on the mindless celebration for a silly speech on the lakhs of people who are rendered hopeless due to floods etc.

whatever we have inherited from our ancesters is given to us to be passed on to our children the way we received it.i feel the biggest problem our country is facing today is of ignorance. people keep on brabering about how the politicians are not doing any thing good or how we are not not moving towards improovement but why dont we talk about how can we make a difference? we complain but we dont do anything ourselves to help. rather talkin ill of our present day leaders we should do little things which can make big difference like not throwin wrappers on street and checkin those who do so. i have given a very simple example and there are many other things by doing which we can really contribute.

Well said Swati, how many ppl really really do something to change. I don’t know what triggered the youth during the imperial rule must certainly had been very bad as the same approach never comes back to this days youth.

We are in much easier position than 50 years back people had to lay their lives then now we just need to shift ourselves from shortcuts, laziness, ignorance and ease of getting things without knowing the cost Nation pays for that.

I feel I am spineless at times when I easily accept corruption but god knows what has come into me and many like me that we talk about the problem day in and night out but rarely do a single thing to do a small change no matter how localized it is.
There is a major population which wants the change but no one wants to dirty their hands. Even our PM today sounded lil low, atleast he was true while throwing light on real evils if not throwing the ideas how to resolve them.

Remember we are doing bad but still we are not utter dysfunctional, things can change if we start accepting minor losses for bigger national gains someday...

Anyways happy independence day atleast we all should be proud that we have a place which throws us opportunity and good or bad in material but a happy life to a huge chunk of population.

Common citizen has nothing to celeberate about with all the worries on his weakshoulders. Sixty years of independance and10 five years plans gone by have given him nothing to be happy about. He wakes up with worries for the days struggles ahead. Is unable to sleep with worries for tomorrow.
Can a mother who sold her child for Rs. 21/- only celeberate 15th August of this year or any other year.

hi,
i think we must celebrate i - day. i proud to be an indian. when we talk about problems. we always says that corruption is the big problem of our country and govts are responsible for this. but did we ever realise that we are also part of this system . i want to ask everybody did you ever fight for corruption. so without blaiming anybody change yourself and think what i m doing for my country.

I am reminded of a joke I saw on a TV Channel yesterday. Prince was in a hole for 50 years. When a villager was informed about this, he remarked what is so great our country has been in a pothole for over 50 years

A typing mistake in my earlier comment.

Prince was in a hole for 50 HOURS. When a villager was informed about this, he remarked what is so great our country has been in a pothole for over 50 years

I am reminded of a joke I saw on a TV Channel yesterday. Prince was in a hole for 50 years. When a villager was informed about this, he remarked what is so great our country has been in a pothole for over 50 years

A typing mistake in my earlier comment.

i want to ask everybody did you ever fight against corruption.so without blaiming anybody change yourself and think what i m doing for my country.

Dear manrock, I am completely disagree with your point of view here as you have written -

”Some one written somewhere that the selling of Baby for just Rs. 21 is a very shameful act done by that mother but we forget to thanks that mother who shown courage and bring that child on the earth and not aborted him/her during pregnancy which our so called educated and literate people do on daily basis.”

Dear friend, a poor woman, who sells her baby in Rs 21, commits a crime. and those kinds of women may abort his child during the pregnancy if anybody will offer even Rs 22.

The basic problem is poverty. People who are living at the bottom level of the poverty line may do anything for his or her survival. It does not matter that they are aborting the child, selling the child or doing any other kind of crime.

Whether it is selling or aborting the babies, both acts are henoius crime. our society should get rid from thses kind of shameful crimes.

Dear pratyush

Thanks for giving your remark on my comment.
I myself lead a very hard life and truly know “how one feels while eating the bread with mustered oil and salt”. I know this incident happens in Bihar and this is not the only one case, if some one see the back pages then he will find thousand and thousand of such cases or similar cases in Bihar.
The point of discussion was “Is the women done the shameful act by selling her child for just Rs. 21”.
The answer is yes. She has done the shameful act by selling her beloved child for just Rs. 21.
But my comment, which I written on daily India is not going to read by her or millions of other people who belong to that category.
My statement was meant for those millions of privileged class people who have the Internet excess at their home/ office, well paid in their profession and leading the luxurious life.
Let’s see some example which we privilege class people are condemning and calling as shameful act but in our rural area you will find thousand and thousand of such cases happening on regular intervals.
1. In one village of Gujarat the elder daughter has to adopt the profession of paid sex for the sake of her family and she never merry in her life. What a shameful act.
2. In every minor or major city of India is having at least one or two flesh market where thousand and thousand of girls living. These girls were not in this profession by birth. They born in some family with father, mother, brothers and sister but finally landed there. What a shameful thing.
3 For saving the dowry money in poor families numbers of fathers are marrying their daughter with groom older then 50 or plus. What a shameful thing.

4. To save the dowry money number of couple aborting their baby, and this happens in every part of India. What a shameful thing.
5. In some part of India numbers of family keeps only one woman in their house and all the brother share her as their wife. What a shameful act.
This list can be grow longer and longer.
You see govt. has ban the dowry, govt. has ban the gender determination and abortion but these are the flourish area in our society.
If I will suggest some one to pl. take out your cheques books and write cheques of Rs. 1500 for the charity for the poor people, it will hard to find a single person including my self, therefore I am suggesting the ways which will help to bring the changes in social system and eliminates the evils from the society.
Take one more example: if I born in the family of beggar and leading the life of beggar, Is it my problem? No, it is not my problem. It’s is the problem of society where the division of wealth is in such a way that day by days richer are growing richer and poor are poorer.
Let me allow showing the other side of coin of this incident. What that mother will do with those 21 rupees, which she earns after selling her child?
Can she purchase a home with that rupees, or a pair or bull, or a pair of gold ring. What she will do with those 21 rupees?
21 rupees is not a big money and some time we leave more then that on the table as a tip for waiters.
We should be happy to see that she has arranged a good home for the survival of her child in such a family where the child will get at least two time milk, because if he will remain with her mother, one day he will die with hunger. (You pl. remember the horrific scene of Sudan where due to malnutrition and hunger thousand of children dies every year).
Some times things, which look shameful from the top, are quite practical in reality.
And if some one to blame for this then, this is society who should feel shame, this is the government who should feel shame on this incident where a mother have to sell her beloved child to save his life.
It was not the money, which convinced her to sell the baby; it was the question of survival of baby, which forced her to take such an extreme decision.

Dear Manrock, We are sailing the same boat of thoughts and feelings. Everyone who lives in the society is reponsible for the development of the society because whoever he is, he is in need of society in every moment.

The upper class should do more in this area but unfortunately they don’t. Most unusual part of this discussion is that the people of lower level of society who makes their life much better and living comfortable life do not want to see back to the place from where he has come. This is the biggest irony of our country.

Forget the people who came on the earth with silver spoon in their mouth, they do not know what is poverty. How can we expect some assistance from them for the development of society, because they feel that they have made the society. Keeping expectation from those people is nothing but the wastage of the time.

The most hurting point is that those people do avoid to go and help the people of their former place of living. as you said how many people would agree to give 1500 Rs for the poors. I ask a question how many of us Bihari would be ready to go back to Bihar to do some good things there?

First of all we should change ourselves as a responsible citizen and should forget the concept ’sab chalta hai’.

Yes, we must celebrate our I-day but also keep tabs on what we are doing and what we have done so far towards social welfare and democracy as a whole.

We might be the largest democracy in the world, but do we really have a free voice?

Jobs, medical attention, educational facilities at affordable rates not available, lonng Qs for everythig including postmortem reports and then death certificates, important posts leading to delay in decidions/judgements remaining unfilled including that of Foreign Minister, no single window clearancefor anything in Govt. offices babus and protectors of life and liberty themselves harrassing the brother common man more than by the regime under the British, corruptinon at every step/walk of life, prices ever increasing, few leaders with proven criminal track record occupying cabinet posts. Aren’t they enough achievements for common man during 59 years? Can countries like Japan, Germany, China, U.K Russia etc. come near record breaking achievemnts?
Disputes between Karnataka and Maharashtra remaining unsolved since ages, floods and draughts taking their tolls every year, farmers committing suicides for lack of finance, criminals’ cases taking years to decide, undertrails remaing in jails for substantial periods of life. 1993 case getting decided in 2006 are yet other examples.

i feel its a must to celebrate this day because when we spare time and money to celebrate many ............. Days, living in this mother country at least we should spend some time for it. Be proud to be INDIAN ”Jai Hind”
Problems:
*) The foremost problem with our Indians are self discipline never bothered about the society,
*) Try to find faults on others e.g. signal jump trying to point out the other one who has done so.
*) The Person who sets the rules only Break the rules especially Police ppls parking at NO-Parking, moving on ONE WAY.
*) We do not know tomorrow how many of them curse
the freedom fighters for closing of Bars.
*) I become very very wild when ppls do not obey the traffic and try to act smart.
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