Fading Patriotism

“Proud to be an Indian!!!’ and “India first..Then me” etc. are only limited on T-shirts, we find on the streets, but the question do we really feel the same? We enjoy the holidays on republic and independence days and stay home feeling patriot.  But we don’t act when we find our flags on the road. We enjoy walking on them, but do not get the urge of picking it up and keeping it somewhere else.

We go to watch movies, but how many of us actually stand up when the national anthem is played? I have personally seen, people are not even bothered to leave their valuable seats for just few seconds and we call us patriot. They why to play and insult our national anthem in places like this?

I have been to Delhi, lot of times and also visited places like Raj Ghaat, India Gate etc. I wanted to see, whether, these places looks the same way as we see in our TV. But it is so painful to see that, these places are not even taken care, they are neglected to the last limit. I couldn’t even compare the same monument in reality and in TV and we say we are patriot.

Today our tricolor is most seen on pour clothes, we see it on sarees, shirts, socks, hats etc. and we say we are patriot. Sorry to say, today patriotism is just hosting the flag, having some sweets, come home and relax. This is patriotism…

India burnt several times because of our external trespassing, but I don’t see anything harm in this when people inside the country are so much patriot. When we have our best of leaders who are promising day in and day out then why to fear, if anyone comes in or not, how does it matter when we are living a good life, who cares about living it honestly, as end of the day it is money which speaks.

People don’t even know what is India? And what is our national anthem, and then also we are patriot. Who says we don’t raise our voice, we have raised our voice against each and every wrong thing happened but still voted for most of our best leaders.

“Aai mere watan ke logon, zaara aankh main bhar lo paani , jo shaheed huie hain unki, tum yaad karo kurbani”, but do we really know who were they, we only know selected high profiled names but forgot those unnamed heroes, who gave their life, their life for us , for our independence. We know who is Mahatma Gandhi and what happened on 2^nd October 1869, but how many of us know, what happened on 23^rd March 1931?, how many people know about Gandhi – Erik Pact ? Because of which we lost 3 youth icons on this day.

There is a dense political game around this day, when we could have saved Bhagat Sing, Rajguru and Sukhdev, then why didn’t they were saved? There are so many of our heroes, who died even though, they could have been saved. But our great leaders thought of their own power and prosperity and let go what was happening.

Today I feel that, we were indeed being tortured by British people but nothing has changed after independence also. At least before independence, we knew who are our enemies and today we don’t know. But the condition is the same. Being having the largest knowledge pool, its being more that 6 decades, we are still a developing country and we are happy about it.

It is really shocking, when I see people don’t even know the national anthem correctly. “Saare jahan se achha Hindustan hamaara, hum bulbulein hain iski yeh gulsitan hamara” Is only a song now because our gulsitan is no more a gulsitan; people have destroyed the serenity of it and still haven’t stopped. Do we call this PATRIOTISM? I am afraid 6 decades before we were under British rule and today under British culture. Then where is that patriotism, people don’t even get up from their sofa when the national anthem is played television, instead of that they change the channel, so that they don’t have to get up.

There are so many things happening around and you feel what can I do? If this feeling would have been there with our heroes then they might not have to give their life like this. But they followed their heart and did what they felt necessary and today everyone has forgot then, their ultimate sacrifices. See the condition of their family here; no one is bothered to visit them.  Why today everyone wants to go abroad for studies, work etc. but no one is interested to join our armed forces? No one wants to be here and serve the nation.

The reason is very simple, these people are the one who are badly treated in India, and their safety is no one’s concern these days. They don’t have proper guns, in sufficient bullets, bad quality safety jackets, in sufficient food on the borders and after death only promises. Why should anyone go into this after knowing the problems.. And then also we say we love our country.

I am not surprised, that our coming generations will find "Patriotism" only in dictionaries.