BEING A NATIONAL

“Into the heaven of freedom, my Father, let my country awake” – Rabindranath Tagore

The country always assumes importance when interests of an individual and the country collide against one another. And it is the country under whose parentage an individual thrives and lives. When being a national, there is a sense of dignity and belongingness to the nation, and a nationality is that mark of indentifying an individual with the greater and the more important area of categorization of a nation. So, this Independence Day, let us be proud of our Mother from within and give Her a chance to feel the same for us too.

” One individual may die for an idea; but that idea will, after his death incarnate itself in a thousand lives”. – Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose.

This quote by Netaji means that we are the human incarnation of ideas that our ancestors have thought of. We must strive harder everyday of our life for a better India that is prosperous and equal to all it`s citizens. The National Flag hoisted on every 15th August also represents those thousands of heads, beheaded while fighting for what we have today – our freedom. Us, as citizens of independent India should always keep our past, present and future glory alive in every moment of this day and everyday. We must celebrate this day with pride and honour and cherish our freedom as it is the most precious gift given to us by our national heroes.

Being a citizen is not just a myopic enjoyment of right and privileges as entitled to people of the land. If it is inhabiting a land it also entails taking care and feeling for the land at the same time. This reciprocity of relationship churns out quite a befitting definition of national or a citizen of a nation. While there has been intervals of foreign rule and continuous interventions in ethnic indignity, religious and political wars, nevertheless the society of India kept evolving and its dynamicity shaped a composite culture much quoted in the refrain “Unity in Diversity”.

Jai Hind!