Yet an another year for sovergnity not freedom

Its been a long time since i have wrote something. I blame it on writer's block, yes yes, even bad writing can get into a block. So my blogging and the issues i write about will be a little dated, like me.

Our independence day just got over. And i sat on my sofa sipping an excuse for a coffee watching the idiot box, as familiar cliches of symbolic celebrations of our freedom whizzed past my eyes. The boring, uninspiring speech of the prime minister from the Lal Kila, re run of some latest super hit jignostic national integration movie, debate for the nth time whether Ghandi and Nehru are still relevant (They arent why dont we accept that), parade of numerous school kids in the hot sun for a chocolate afterward and numerous flag hoisting sessions. No i am not against all this after all i get a day off from office. But this is not celebration of freedom.

Pandit Nehru was wrong, On 15th August 1947, India didnt wake up to freedom, India woke up to sovergnity. India is still far from acheiving freedom. I am taking about freedom at all levls political, economic and personal.

Freedom for millions of Indians to break out of poverty by abolishing policies that are designed to keep them perpetually poor, freedom for that enterprising youngster to start a business of his own without going through the morass of red tape, freedom for that bar dancer to earn a living without moral police judging her, freedom for women to walk in whatever they are comfortable in without being subjected to molestation, freedom for that young couple in marine drive to steal a kiss of passion without onlookers harassing them..

No we arent there yet. Its an yet another day of sovergnity not freedom