Sufyan Saraf
Based on my experience I’m writing this article on the topic ‘Independence Day: The day India took over the control’. Ever since childhood while we used to go to school there used to be a kind of a joy, pride and happiness in singing the National Anthem with enthusiasm and drawing the flag, wearing it and what not!
As the years pass by we tend to lose the mother land’s touch in our hearts, we fall for foreign customs and their steps and forget our own paved path which we own. We no more wish to give respect to the nation with an assumption – what has the nation given me? The nation gives you identity, and the nation showers you with love and dignity when you stand tall among a crowd representing it. But we are humans: The selfish beings who just think about themselves, not about the medium through which they glided towards accomplishing something.
I have observed it in my young fellows, seniors and super seniors. I see a huge generation gap in terms of love towards the nation. As we grow up we just don’t feel like standing for our National Anthem, singing is a far cry today. In childhood, in our primary schools, we were made to stand straight for the National Anthem but as we grew up it is just like the importance declined in our day-to-day life. We are in a rat race, and do not have a few minutes to owe to the nation? As we grow up and till we reach higher studies in colleges, we just drop the idea of nation, we remember it only on special occasions of Independence Day, Gandhi Jayanti, Liberation Day and a few more. In the current world the only place where National Anthem is played on a daily basis is the movie theatre, wherein there also we need to request a bunch of educated people to please show some respect and stand for the National Anthem. Let’s not take this God-gifted mother land for granted and show some respect.
Happy Independence Day.
(Writer is a first year MBBS student at GMC, Goa)
