Looking at the images of the past couple of months, I sometimes feel despondent that consciously or unconsciously we are unravelling the very foundations of our beloved nation, by our ill considered thoughts, words & actions.
It pains me, and others like me, who had sworn to even lay down our lives to defend our motherland, and our visionary Constitution. It shames me to think of Capt Vikram Batra, PVC, who lay down his life with the immortal slogan, "yeh dil maange more" in his heart, and on his lips. Countless more have sacrificed their all to this great cause and nation, fighting an external enemy.
It saddens me to see that we are no better than an external enemy; we are doing to our nation what even our enemy cannot. We as a people are so full of ourselves, and self centred, that we resort to violence and destruction at the slightest provocation, destroying public & private property alike. We blame our elected representatives for all our ills, and forget that they are a part of us, and represent us in behaviour, but only seem out of place as they tend to magnify our faults.
Our elected representatives, our politicians will change, when we change; from being self-centric to nation and citizen-centric. Leadership is needed to effect this change. Our past & present politicians have failed us.
The challenge is for each one of the younger generation to step forward, and bring about a change in themselves, one person at a time. In time, we will have the politcians that we would then deserve.
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