A New Indian dream

Today is our Independence Day. This is a very special day for each and every Indian, whether at home or abroad. Exactly 64 years ago, our country got liberated from the British Empire. And from then on, we started to move on a new path with new hope, leaving behind the agony of being ruled by colonial power-Britain. Our forefathers and freedom fighters left for us a beautiful country spanning from the Himalayas in the north to the Kanyakumari in the south, from Gujarat in the west to the far eastern province of Arunachal Pradesh to Mizoram, and so is our National Anthem “Jana gana mana” covering each and every state and provinces of this great motherland. Today, we sing our “National Anthem” with full vigor that holds more than our billion souls together on a same string of love, peace, forgiveness, equality and liberty. This day, let us pay homage to those great freedom fighters, who are but our great forefathers, and who selflessly sacrificed their lives to liberate our country from Britain.

Freedom is Independence, and Independence is Freedom!
Freedom is the most essential element of our life, as also, for our country. From the shackles of bondage, while turning back the pages of our eternal history, reveals our freedom fighters among many, Mangal Pandey, Rani Laxmibai of Jhansi, Shahid Bhagat Singh, Khudiram, Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose and others who fought bravely for this great country, gave up their life and died fighting valiantly, taking bullets and gallows smiling all the way to reach the heaven of martyrdom. They did this because they thought for us, our new generations, and generations to come, and for this very freedom and independence which we have today, so that, our life will be free from oppression and suppression from the colonial power-Britain, and also because, we can think independently, and work autonomously, which we do today.

Today is our day to be reunited again, by the common melody of harmony and accord, joy and happiness and today is the day to reckon that our independence came after much agony and pain, we lost our greater parts of Bengal and Punjab, forever, following the partition. But again, this is also not the time to look back, but to look ahead for a better India, more prosperous, united and shining with splendor and magnificence while keeping our past hardships in the cover.
From that very auspicious day, August the 15th 1947, we started thinking independently, for us and our nation, collectively. And today, we ought to take that initiative again and reignite our soul to think united for a better India, full of opportunities and new prospects, as our country is racing past the time in full vigor, both economically, and politically.

India today is differently afresh, politically matured, and filled with vigor and potency, undeterred yet committed, firm yet flexible, competent and proficient, with our talent skillful and adept enough with our billion souls boasting just one “single unique dream- The New Indian Dream” that would fulfill those billion dreams. A dream that was dreamt by many, and now, it’s time to turn those into full reality. Nothing can stop India from achieving what other big league countries have achieved.

Our country is at the forefront of the world economy, with 8.5% GDP growth and a GDP on PPP basis at $3.5 trillion, the eleventh largest in the world by output, and third largest by purchasing power parity. This will soon double within no time.

Today, we can think about doing and achieving what any other nation in this world can do. We can also think about doing what others cannot even afford to do. That’s our ability spanning from our deep-rooted history of endurance through hard labour. This arrival on the global platform is different from our past. This is a new day, with new hopes, and no despair, but only bloom and blossom and let the world see what is happening in India, why is there so much of an “Indian Phenomenon”? And in no less time, India will not only catch up, but beat every other “equal” in terms of economic leadership and prosperity, in knowledge and in technology.

So how can one describe India?
Behold this great land of the people who worship Lord Shiva and start their day with a Sun Bath every dawn. India, yes, the mystic land of beauty where the Himalayas abode as the crown of this golden land, and where the Holy Ganges purifies the heart and soul of this ancient “land of the earliest civilization”, and where the oceans and seas washes the feet of this mystic land. Yes, this is our “Incredible India”! A country with a history as old as the history of the world itself, civilizations that was enlightened from the very beginning of sunrise and the country which taught the lessons of love, tolerance, peace, politics, medicine and economics, and what not? In effect, India boasts the largest diversity of her kind both in her ecosystem and her people, yet, united by the rhythmic string of a common song of love and eternal bond with her past legacy and her present people, to her future endeavors. Diverse food habits, customs and practices provide one an entirely unique ground for an inquisitive mind to go deeper inside the heart and soul of this GreatLand and unleash the treasure that this country boasts. India is never truly discovered unless one goes deep into the plain-land of this country, deep enough inside the country-life of Indian villagers which offers the only one-of-its kind in this planet.

About our Cultural and Anthropological Past:
Our Heritage:
Our heritage lies in our deep-rooted treasure-the origin of our knowledge, Veda and Bhagabat Gita that taught us morality, principles and ethics, gave us philosophy and adorned our minds with innumerable jewels that could be found only in this heartland for centuries. Yet, we take pride that we accept others views and adorn secularity in the matter of faith and religion. No matter, whether you are a Hindu, Muslim, Christian or Sikh, or Buddhist and Jains or Jews or Parsis, we invite all and accept all their belief, since, from a point of true intellectuality, it is very difficult to draw even a fine line among any religion, because, they all teach the same! And that is tolerance.

This country is the birthplace of some of the great sages of the ages, and of great personalities adorned far and wide, from the Far East to the Far west, and from polar north to the poles of south, and it is India, who taught the world about non-violence and so we have great leaders like Emperor Asoka and Mahatma Gandhi. And so is the birthplace of Gautama Buddha and his preaching’s in Buddhism, followed widely all across the world. And so we are proud to have great reformers in Swami Vivekananda, Bal Gangadhar Tilak, Raja Rammohan Roy, Dr. Rajendra Prasad, Motilal Nehru , Jawaharlal Nehru, Lal Bahadur Shastri, Dr. B.R. Ambedkar and Rishi Arobindo, among others.

It was a time when the world looked at India, through her excellence in education and knowledge, from far and wide as is evident from relics of Nalanda University (which is soon to be reopened). It is again that the West and the rest- of the world are looking at India again(look India policy), for the immense opportunities that she presents to the world, and share those in equitable vanity.

Indeed there are some problems of inequality and poverty, but these can all be overcome by the collective effort and participative role of all the Indians and to keep alive those dreams, and turn those into reality about -a New Indian dream.

“Jai Hind” and "Jai Ho...."