I: The Indian, the Dream!
“At the stroke of midnight while the world sleeps India awakes to life and freedom”. In 1947 Jawaharlal Nehru’s “Tryst with destiny” was heard, a few years later January 26th 1950 a new republic was formed and India became a democracy. Fifty-nine years later however, ‘At the stroke of midnight while the world sleeps India does awake but neither to life nor to freedom, instead it awakes to death, terrorism, corruption, communalism, poverty, selfishness and inhumanity’. The martyrs of yesterday have become mere holiday givers today. Respect was commanded by our forefathers but today it has no value, life has no value. Hands down and factually speaking, India has achieved a lot in every field however improvement can increase in leaps and bounds, unfortunately for us, corruption has become an intricate part of Indian democracy. At every juncture of democratic functioning, the blame game is ever so present. Apathy on the part of government servants is of the highest standar...