Once, while sitting in the cafeteria and waiting for one of my colleague I got a chance to watch the MTV show “Bakra”, I do not exactly remember the show date but it was somewhere before 26 Jan.
To my surprise the theme of the show this time was “what is the relevance of the date 26 Jan in our History?” and the venue was some CCD in Delhi.
The anchor was designedly throwing the same ques on each table. Some said it’s our republic; some even went to the independence, but finally tsunami took over me when he went to the last table and threw the same Ques where a group of youngster’s (genx India) were having fun time celebrating one of their friends b’day.
The ans from a final year B Ed student was
“ I don know !!! Its a Holiday ### Who cares ...”
I no u all must be thinking whats the big deal in this... most of the people specially the youngsters like us have the same ans.. but y ?, the ans lies into the soul of INDIA..
What shld i say when a dear frnd of mine doesn’t know where Gujrat is on the Map of India. What shld i say when another one ask’s me the significance of Saffron, white and Green colour in our flag.
Note: Fortunately all my frnds are engineers and currently working for reputed IT industries of the country
All these chapters raised a ques in my mind – India had a freedom struggle of more than 150 years, also the most brutish one in the history of the entire world. Now, somewhere in some part of our freedom struggle our ancestors wld have played some role , or at least they would have witnessed the same period of inhuman dominance.
Also, u must agree that there is always a flow of legacy from one generation to the other in whatever context it may be..
Then which generation (50’s, 60’s, 70’s or the great 80’s and 90’s) failed to deliver the “great patriotic legacy” to their kinship group?
Indian History and geography is a mandatory part of basic learning in ever school of this country. We often have various journals and printed material available over Internet and books.
Then where is the problem?
Surprisingly, the issue is not whether we know anything about our country or not but, even then everyone of us always has something or the other to add whenever we talk abt the false policies of the government.. Pakistan and terrorism ... Gandhi’s responsibility of partition.. and the list goes on..
Who gave us the right to point fingers on political Hippocrates and insane Bureaucrats when we don’t even know that the ken of our knowledge is so small !!
Y don we find out the innovations and the possibilities of making this a better place ...
My dear frnd we got to do something over here...