Just
got this off my fb page: This happens to be the 67th Independence day
of India. Disclaimer: this was an Economic Times update on my fb – so buyer
beware.
Truly
we are running out of numbers. Last I remembered, people were going crazy about
the half century figure but India is batting faster than Sachin after he
completes his fifty. Wait, what’s my age now? Never mind.
So
I was thinking why so much fuss about Independence day and its celebration. It’s
quite funny to see people upload flags to their profiles to convince themselves
that they still are patriotic. I could point it out to them, but then I’ll have
no one to laugh at. When I think that the concept of nation is about its
geography and borders as I read in the inaccurate geography text books in my
high school, the illogical social text books in my high school correct me to
say that the concept of a nation is its people and culmination of all the cultures
it has accumulated when it was in slavery of the kings or whites, or bureaucrats
later (I made that up, the text book doesn’t have the wisdom to say it).
Well,
if it’s only about borders and spaces, there is no point in feeling sentimental
about it. If it is about people, culture and all the crap that it comes with, the
bottom line is the same. It’s more hypocritical than foolish and either ways,
no need to feel attached and sentimental about it. I, for one, am starting to
get allergic to people and their stupid
notions specifically because they restrict MY independence for the sake of
something they are not sure they believe in.
The
only good thing is that it is a public holiday. But even that’s got an angle. It’s
a dry day (again, this info is not from an accurate source and I am too
uninterested to google)
You
want us to celebrate by holding it dry? I repeat: hypocrites.
No comments:
Post a Comment