Today let's take a minute to thank our soldiers who sacrifice, to remember those who first tried to take out that bunch of warring whites. To remind ourselves ourselves that we still have a long way to go; because we may have got this country back from foreign hands but we still don't have the country in hands of our own.
Today is Independence day; probably the only day when all of us unanimously call this country 'ours'. Hence it is a Happy Independence Day, indeed.
But let's think of all the other days when we don't associate ourselves with our country; all those times we wish we had a green card and scoot from here; all those minutes we spend talking about how "these Indians" drive or don't vote or can't maintain queues and procedures, etc. or how everything in India is 'just like that' and how nobody tried to change it.
How much is our country- is India- really our own?
I hope we work towards that from this moment on because today's momentum will probably remain unparalleled for the rest of the year. Even if you start with a thought, it's still a beginning for it's the thought that counts. And every thought sown reaps into an action that reaps into a character and trust me- we could really use a few genuinely patriotic souls around here! And I can bet you think so too.
Do tell me how you plan to start making India you own country today!
