Independence Day Of A Birthday Girl
Every independence day goes by with the same old rituals....Parades, hoisting flags and rhetoric speeches by Prime Ministers listing the achievements of this nation and the goals we need to strive for...Of lately, we change our dps to the tricolour, take on some marathons and if we are keen enough also update our status quoting from the PM's speech...Other than that, it is yet another lazy day to chill out.... It is infact a laudable fact that this nation and its people particularly, have survived a myriad of crises-poverty, censorships,bans,lynchings,delays of justice, the emergency, insurgencies,intolerance and imposed cultural nationalism,to list a few-and are part (or not) of the fastest growing economy (or may be not so after a famous midnight announcement)of the world...The PM's speech never fails to highlight the factors that led to the latter even if the former is forgotten... As a birthday girl, I look at every independence day differently, not for the wishes...