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Thursday, January 24, 2008

Are we forgotten Heroes like you…? (A letter to Subashchandra Bose)




The great Subash….

I keep my head straight on this occasion of your birthday to pay you a heartly respect.

You fled India and met those leaders for seeking alliance for attacking British. You quit National Congress thinking that tactics of non-violence would never be sufficient to secure India's independence. You had established INS, attacked British and tried freeing India from them.

I know, you too had a family like all of us but opted to serve the country first. I don’t believe that any mantra can get us the Mango we wanted. Though we have got our independence from nonviolence, everyone can understand your effort to weaken the enemies, you made sure to them, that we can also fight.

I know, you are the great Inspiration for soldiers who are guarding our Mother Land in the borders, in spite of deadly cold and sleepless nights.


But exactly after 61 years of independence we are changed. More than respecting the heroes of our country we are more worried about dip in our share market.

Our media has full of these news – India’s voctory at Perth, Kareena’s tatoo on Saif’s hand, Political Crisis in Karnataka and so on... and your news was just part of all these somewhere.

I think, many of us really had no time to remember you. You should have surprised by not seeing the khadhi political leaders beside your phototgraph this time.

Please don’t mind they are in full fledge compigning for the election. Might be they are thinking ‘ Paying respect to the National leaders is also part of their ruling’.
They may remember people like you only when they are in power.

Few years later if I tell your story to kids they may be very much surprised to hear it. They may think “ did we really have people like you who sacrificed their life for us?”
No wonder if we loose the meaning of the words like patriotism and if the people completely forget the heroes like you.

we should feel ashamed for this.

I promise , at least I will tell patriotic stories to my kids. I will teach them how to respect the nation and people.

Getting a chance please come back to India again to reinitiate some moral in us.

JaiHind


-- Shiv

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