To be blunt, we are living in the nation that has the Fundamental Right of Right to Equality, but very often we come across the word like ‘Minorities’. Some great man once in his interview had said: “The only way to stop racism and inequality is to stop talking about that in the first place.” But unfortunately, our mind automatically starts working in that direction. The problem is not with the concepts but the practice of those concepts.
Yes, the practice of the concepts. We have this strong spirit for unity but the problem is that we practice it in a wrong way. For example, if two people of different religions break a quarrel in the name of the religion, people of both the religions unite and fight with each other in order to protect the honor of their religion. But no one ever thinks unite the people of both the religions together to stand up against those two culprits and set an example for those two people so that they never repeat it and thus, protect the honor of the humanity.
Once my Honorable Educational Advisor of my school had quoted the beautiful lines on the auspicious occasion of The Republic Day. The lines were:
“If you cannot love your family, you cannot love your home. If you cannot love your home, you cannot love your friends. If you cannot love your friends, you cannot love your city. If you cannot love your city, you cannot love your state. And if you cannot love your state, don’t even think about loving your country.”
Naked truth it was! If we cannot love and accept people the way they are, forgetting the differences of religion, castes and financial status, then how are we supposed to love the nation that comprises of the people speaking approximately 1683 languages and following 8 different religions at least?
We follow democracy but we don’t use it. We are so familiar to these problems that now we are getting accustomed to them. We are the people who are Hercules but untrained. We have infinite powers and yet we don’t use it for our own future. We have media but we lack matter. We have platform but we lack imaginations. We have hopes but we lack faith. We have knowledge but we lack wisdom. We are vectors that have magnitudes but we lack directions.
We consider a Hindu offering Namaz as a problem but we are too farsighted to consider that our neighbors have faced the wrath of earthquakes. We claim to be secular, but when it comes to acclimate with the people of other states, we disgust the thought. We have talent beyond compares but we have restrictions of reservations. We have high standard of living but unfortunate to say low thinking standards. We have trillions in our bank but zillions in corruption. We have swords to fight but no Pen, Paper and Thoughts to write.
We have different religious books but instead of getting all the bests from them we are so busy to fight on which one to keep on the top in the pile. We are so idiots to forget that every floor in the building is important. Even if one collapses, building isn’t building anymore. And the base of this building is Humanity and not Religion. We just need to follow the Humanity and all religions will be covered in it. We just need to follow the Humanity and we all will be Equals. We just need to follow the Humanity and we will eradicate almost all the problems of our country.
The answers are simple written but harder to follow. It would take more than the guts to bring this change. It is the mentality of the people that will take ages to change and no one even expects them to change at once. But they can at the least try to follow this thought. But sometimes, the purpose of setting the goal very high is that even if failed, then the worst would also be better than the expectations that we used to have once.
The English men used the theory of ‘Divide and Rule’ and now it is our turn to use the theory of ‘Unite and Reign’. It is our turn to become a legend. A legend that carried the population of 1.3 billion of different religions, sects and mindsets but still shone like an Orion in the South. A legend that is called as India. At last I would like to write these lines:
It is worth a shot
To pen your thought
To raise your voice
To put forth your choice
To bring the change
To think beyond your range
To fight for the pride
To let imaginations glide
To do what is right
To make your future bright
To find a better way
To kick the failure away
To stop discrimination
To be one big nation
To stop using ‘I’, ‘my’ and ‘me’
To begin the day with ‘our’ and ‘we’
