On an auspicious day of Independence of my beloved country I woke up little earlier in the noon to the phone call of my mom, who yelled at me for my laziness even on the holy day of “Independence day”, I was hesitant accept it as holy day or what ever equivalent it can be labelled with. Blame on my ignorance or even call me non-patriotic(I deserve a bash) but so does million other adults like me spread over the country who have same way celebrating their Country’s independence. They are either unaware of the importance of the day or fed up with the system. I belong to latter group of fed up pies(I’m sure there’s huge Que).

One such pie(happens to be my buddy) shared his hatred on his FB wall, with attracted tens of likes and comments from like minds, ensuring our fed up pie numbers at large. That whole conversation left me wondering why we all have problem with the system and few even claimed that extended British Raj would have escalated us to greater heights(Nothing wrong in the point). 

At the end of the day, does that mean struggle for independence by our great predecessors went vain. I’m scared that few people may agree with it, in that case souls of those great people may never pardon us all. 

We all are reasons for our gross or net failure as a Nation as whole..

My friend quoted “I am sorry today about our country, but there is still hope for us. As we have had for past sixty six years. A hope that the real independence is actual reality to us than just a mere celebration which we forget tomorrow. It’s high time we introspect about our system, which has not provided social security, equality, lawfulness and real freedom”. 

what does real independence day mean, what was 1947 then and 1991(which many businessmen claim real independence).. 

I think we celebrated our Independence 40 long yrs without doing much to the country.

Right after the independence, Indian leaders not only romanced and celebrated the moment but fell in love with it like newly wed adults with indefinite honeymoon. It was an antipathy moment for Indian leaders to favor protectionism and closed policies making it impossible for any country to do business with India. The socialist mindset created the License Raj and corruption simply became a fact of life. While many other countries continued to be a post-industrial society India’s growth stalled. Things got really bad. In 1991 Manmohan Singh(i’ve heard this name somewhere else too) opened up the economic policy that attracted foreign direct investment and the nation started to see the growth that it never saw post-independence. What happened in India in the last twenty years should have happened soon after its independence. till early nineties we were no different from the ones we were in late 40’s. I assume with liberated trade and economic policy, sudden inflow of capital made the so called leaders to grab the big fish in the name of corruption. There started India’s biggest obstacle of the day.

This corruption is the script writer in the aftermaths whatever have happened till now and to all the things gonna happen in the future. As Nandan Nilekani puts it in his book Imagining India, India got its real independence in 1991. This is when India’s journey from socialism to capitalism started to shape up. India’s foreign cash reserve, which was $1B in 1991 grew to today’s amount of $286B.  This growth(with increased corruption at ends to meet)accelerated even more between 2004 and 2008 with GDP growing close to a double digit rate. India became an unstoppable force and yet again, one more time, the country fell in love with that moment instead of working hard on making crucial policy decisions to sustain that growth.

What I personally see is significant untapped potential and uncanny enthusiasm amongst the Indians. I am excited about the future. It’s easy to latch on to that “moment” India saw in the last few years, but the key is not to take anything for granted and continuously challenge the government for policy reforms and motivate individuals to surge ahead despite of obvious challenges that the country faces.

At last, i’d say we all are culprits and reasons for the reason why we are today in the one or the other way. We should start the change or transition i would like to say has to start from inner self, it will be reflected on the whole. Personally, Hope to see the change by waking up early for the next independence day, not really, as i hope to do more than that.

JAI HIND!!!

With all due credits to all the quotes, individuals i have referred in this blog… Thank you,,,