tomorrow is independence day, one of the occassions when u feel patriotic and be proud of being indians instead of feelin the same 365 days.....we hav a great heritage and have history which dates back to thousands of years... we have produced great thinkers, artists, scientists..... we have made ourselves proud globally.... but what irks me is after accomplishing so much y are we still so underconfident.... y do always have to look up to the west for appreciation...y arent we confident to have our own dreams... im not a software proffesional...but as a layman i feel confused that even though we hav some of the brightest engineers ...n satistics show that more than half the engineers in the silicon valley are indians [ we indeed feel proud of it] we still depend on the west for outsourcing work.... [i dont want to hurt the sentiments of all the software proffesionals reading this] ... but i want to ask y cant we hav the balls to come up with something like windows...photoshop.. google here...well the same is the case in every field... i myself belong the animation n visual effects industry.... we are so proud to to win oscars for chronicles of narnia [which was outsourced to rhythm & hues, mumbai] but we havent yet made a proper indian animated movie for our children except a few lousy ones here and there.... the excuse is always that we dont have enough budget.... huh! but there are some despicable popular movie wherein crores were spend on a single song... how many of us celebrate bengali...punjabi or marathi new year wid the same zeal as 31st december..... or jamasthami wid the same enthu as we celebrate christmas....we hardly wish neone.... indian festival for us is just an excuse for buying new clothes....gng to some fancy restaurants or pubs.... how many of us celebrate it wid the true essence of being wid our loved ones ..sharing joy and happiness... y r we so bad at taking risk....y do we go after jobs for only the sake of earning money and not personal satisfaction.... we complain about our jobs everyday yet go bak to it the next day widout trying something that we want....we r too scared to lose the security ...the weekend parties...the trip to the malls.. that we keep doing the same old stuffs like robots.... we complain abt out cities not being clean...how many times have we resisted throwing the chips packet or cigg bud on the road....how many times have we helped someone needy...or how many times have we stood up for the cause...be it some terror attacks or reservation other than join some anti terror or anti reservation group in orkut or facebook..... how many times hav we made the attempt to educate a little boy delivering us chais...... how many times have we made a friend widout thinking which state or religion he belongs too....everyone reading this is above 18 but how many has seen the insides of the polling booth....how many of us fought against some injustice or malpractice.....wen the stalls in malls ask more than mrp for a mineral water bottle we dont even bother....we always blame the govt abt imcompetance but are we good citizens ourselves.....how many of choose a ngo..defence job over plush mba and IT jobs...... i remember wen i was a kid in school we had to wear clothes of different cultures n sing patriotic songs.... now its just another holiday wid an exception of buying a plastic or paper tricolor at the signal..... we dont even make an effort to wake up early n put up a tricolor in each of our houses.... well some these days dont even get a holiday... there r a lot of people who hav dont a lot n still doing .... im not pointing out neone wid watever i hav written.... im also included amongst the lot..... but as i think of our 62nd INDEPENDENCE DAY this thoughts come to my mind....... Happy Independence Day friends! JAI HIND
