REPUBLIIC DAY!!!

At around 9:00 AM,i was awoken by a loud "Thud! Thud!" on my door,i woke up and i
opened and i had to inhale a barrage of censored words being hurled at me.Reason(??) i didnt
attend the republic day falg hoisting ceremony which indirectly,they say,translates into my
attitude towards my nation.

56 years earlier, i cud see a common man say to another compatriot of his that
"WE ARE A REPUBLIC NOW!!!"....Today,the no natural patriot me,woke up and went for my
breakfast only to find three kids younger than my yongest brother(who wud now be 12),serving me tea,washing the plates and cleaning the tables.So i decide to go so far as stretching English
grammar to ask,"how "republic" are we???" and "How independent is the Indian Republic??"


As i write,my younger brother wud be parading in the grounds of his school with his
white uniform with a sense of pride(abt the nation) about his nation and joy thinking about
the holiday ahead.These kids(my mess ones) ,if any,have only resentment for the nation which
has directly or indirectly made them to work in a place,where no kid of their age belongs and for no fault of theirs.If this is what the "equality" clause in our constitution was able to do
after all these years, i wud only be too happy to say,that my attitude towards the nation would
not change.

The gibber of "Do ur duty,do not expect it s fruit",makes a mockery of human values,as one
s expectations are the ambitions of others.Even the coiner of the above phrase,was expeting to
get something out of the phrase.So it s high time we started thinking about how to put India in
the path of an "ideal" republic,and strive hard in our own way to reach the EXPECTED result.

CHEERS,
MISNOMER.