The India we want

July 12, 2017 11:05 pm | Updated 11:05 pm IST

 

We say that India is a fast-developing country, but in reality are we living in the reel or the real India? I am sure that people rarely have the time to deliberate and think for themselves. I see people bombing each other and corrupt leaders polarising people in the name of caste and religion to capture power. I am a young student and all this pains me. Certainly, our great leaders who fought for the India’s freedom wouldn’t have envisioned an India like this. A land which saw the birth of selfless national leaders such as Mahatma Gandhi and Bhagat Singh, is now witnessing the birth of corrupt and intolerant leaders of tomorrow. Do we see the real India envisioned by our forefathers? We always wait for “somebody” to make a change but we forget the fact that we are that “somebody”. Mahatma Gandhi once said: “We but mirror the world. All the tendencies present in the outer world are to be found in the world of our body. If we could change ourselves, the tendencies in the world would also change. As a man changes his own nature, so does the attitude of the world change towards him. This is the divine mystery supreme. A wonderful thing it is and the source of our happiness. We need not wait to see what others do.” Is this the change we want to see — from peaceful co-existence to polarisation?

Samiksha P.,

Chennai

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