I am born on this soil, the Indian soil. Been bred on this part of the earth, India, breathed your air, fragrant and moist with the promise of monsoon rains, mangoes, chicoos, guavas, dreamt my dreams laced with the fragrance of jasmins, mogra, chameli...and am nourished by your rich harvesting seasons, your rivers, springs...YOU are my Motherland, you have sustained me for all these years...How can I turn my back on you, condemn you in your times of poverty, crisis, trauma, oppression, how can I sell you for a mere lifetime gain, when you have nourished and sustained generations before me, who are the sole reason of my very existence. These have been my roots, of whom, I maybe knowing just three generations before me...TIME marches on but WE pass!
Mother India you do me proud ! You gave us the intellectual heights of Takshila in 700 BC, the worlds oldest University and Nalanda in the 4th century, Sanskrit (the language of Devas/Gods) through Latin, the Mother of all European languages. Today Sanskrit stands acknowledged as the most suitable language for Computer software. Aryabhata innovated the numerical ’’Zero’’, Algebra, trigonometry originated in India, the Solar year of 365 days was calculated by Bhaskaracharya in the 5th century. Bodhayana was not only the first to evaluate mathematical ’pi’ but also the first to know the Pythagorean Theorem in the 6th century, long before the European Mathematicians..Christopher Columbus was attracted to India’s wealth and till the middle of the 19th century, India was the world’s only source of diamonds.
Today India is grappling with divided states, poverty, national calamities, political crisis, population on the one hand and a melange of languages, traditions, festivals, religions, politicised conflicts, cultures and technological and scientific leaps on the other.
Oh India, you have given enough proof of your potential to the world through the ages, only to be looted, stiffled, suppressed by your conquerors over the years, your rulers who taught you the principle of ’’DIVIDE & RULE’’, replaced pride by vanity, generosity by greed, warmth of heart by cold mercenary manupulation, concept of ’’Saab’’ and demeaning servanting, greed for power, ....and finally a corrupt, calculative mind. All these elements totally alien to your culture have made you weak, susceptible to unfair brandings. Today, although you be the world’s greatest Democracy, YOU are in CHAINS!
BUT NOT FOR LONG! Beware all who besmirch your bright name, INDIA WILL RISE ONCE MORE, A GREAT GLOBAL INFLUENCE, The WORLD WILL LOOK UP TO AND TAKE NOTE with envy and pride!
JAI HIND ! I BOW TO YOU IN REVERENCE