India. What do you know about India? India's civilisation started more than 5000 years ago. We've been ruled by several kings. We are proud of two great epics 'The Ramayana' and 'The Mahabharatha'. Do you think they are just stories? In my view they aren't those are biographies of the Rama and Krishna. Anyways I am not going to talk about the epics here. The point I want to take up here. I would like to discuss briefly about past and mostly about present so that we direct our future generations in the right path.
As said above Indian's were ruled by various kings of various dynasties. We allowed Mughuls to rule us. We allowed Greek to rule us. We allowed British to rule us. Have we ever thought for a minute that why did we allow many foreigners to invade and rule us?
Let's go little back in the history upto Alexander period. Alexander the great, I don't deny he was the great, but at the same time do we consider the Porus is also the great. Alexander was not able to enter India and was struggling to win the Porus. Whereas Porus was defeated cunningly using an insider information from Ambhi.
Similarly British, they did not come to rule us, initially, but to trade. Whereas after seeing the potential of India and how un-united we were they speculated to start ruling and exploiting us. They were successful in doing that for about 300 years. Have anybody of us thought why and how did Britishers started ruling us? Now it was again insider information and we were not united.
Ok we have got independence on Aug 15, 1947, but did we like to be a single country? British did plant a seed in the minds of Indians ie the seed of Religion by dividing India into two viz. India and Pakistan. When they went out of india they saw through that we will not be united in the future. Are we?
Now it's been 62 years (today = Aug 18, 2009) and are we really independant? Yes I must agree that we are now having 'Freedom to speak/write'. Are we any different between now and then? We are still being exploited in the name of MNCs, global brands. Most of the profit is going to other countries. I agree that the life style has improved, but with our effort other country's comfort is increasing exponentially. So who is responsible for these? Can we make our Government accountable for this? Are we going to point each other for the responsibility? Recently I heard some nasty comments about India from an Indian born British citizen on indian's capacity, Indian education etc. I agree we Indians give more importance to theory not practicals, give more importance to home works not team works, but we Indians are there in every walks of life.
To be continued...
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