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1OO0 REASONS TO CELEBRATE INDIA'S INDEPENDENCE DAY

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Today the stakes are achingly high. An avian flu epidemic-- whether engineered by a state and given to terrorists or created by them (the genetic code of the 1918 avian flu that killed 50 million persons has now been posted on the internet) Or naturally occurring could strike India with an unprecedented velocity. Similarly a nuclear device detonated in any of our major cities could dwarf the casualties of Hiroshima. There could also be chemical and biological attacks simultaneously. These new threats have important implications for the survival of our country India.

Die hard patriots like Lokmanya Tilak, Chatrapati Shivaji, Subhash Chandra Bose, Bhagat Singh, Veer Savarkar, Swami Vivekananda, Vallabhbhai Patel as also our parents and grand parents have all sacrificed in some way or the other to secure us and our lives in today's Independent India. But somewhere down the line after Independence our ministers and politicians have betrayed us . . .

Unlike China India has been unable to provide a decent living, food, shelter, good roads etc to its citizens. Marketing and PR alone cannot hide away under the carpet the poverty stricken population of India OR the so many different factors loaded with intense emotions and sensitivities waiting to burst at the seams and spill out its guts and gore on the streets of India. The fact is that more than 60% of our population is living under the poverty line. After 62 years of Independence, most of it under the Congress rule, there are 1000 reasons to celebrate, here are a few of them . . .

A PRIME MINISTER BENDING BACKWARDS TO PLEASE A ENEMY COUNTRY , A UTTAR PRADESH WHICH HAS BECOME ANOTHER BIHAR, MURDERS OF SENIOR CITIZENS, DISAPPEARING JOBS, DROUGHT, WATER SCARCITY, LACK OF ELECTRICITY IN THOUSANDS OF VILLAGES, BAD ROADS, OVER CROWDED TRAINS( every day at least 4 persons are killed in the Mumbai local trains alone) THOUSANDS OF FARMERS HAVE COMMITTED SUICIDE IN THE LAST TWO YEARS , ATTACKS ON INDIANS IN AUSTRALIA, MAOISTS AND ISLAMIC TERRORISTS HAVE KILLED THOUSANDS, CHINESE MILITARY INTRUSIONS IN ARUNACHAL PRADESH, ADULTERATION OF ESSENTIAL ITEMS LIKE MILK, MEDICINES, GHEE, BISCUITS , TEA ETC, CONGRESS MP's and MINISTERS ROUTINELY GO ABOUT SLAPPING PUBLIC OFFICERS, LAKHS & CRORES OF PAKISTANIS AND BANGLADESHIS COMING IN TO INDIA AND RESIDING HERE , NO SPACE TO PARK CAR'S AND BIKE'S ON THE ROADS, RAPES OF WOMEN HAVE BECOME A NORM,, A FAULTY RESERVATION POLICY BASED ON RELIGION( sure fire recipe for disaster), CHILD ABUSE ON THE RISE, CASTE AND LANGUAGE BASED CONFRONTATIONS, WOMEN BEING STRIPPED AND BEATEN ON THE ROADS, INITIATIVES LOST TO SETTLE DISPUTES IN OUR FAVOUR DURING THE 1965 AND 1971 WAR'S WITH PAKISTAN (the price of which we are paying till today), A GOVT AND ITS MACHINERY ALWAYS LACKING TO MEET CHALLENGES OF THE TERRORISTS, HUNDREDS DIE EVERY YEAR BECAUSE OF HUNGER, COLD AND RAINS, NAXALISM ON THE RISE, RUPEES 1,69,000-00 CRORES OF COUNTERFEIT CURRENCY IN CIRCULATION, NO AFFORDABLE HOUSING FOR THE MIDDLE CLASS, KANDHAR, KARGIL, PARLIAMENT ATTACKS, TERRORIST ATTACKS ON OUR TEMPLES AND COURTS, MUMBAI 1993 BOMB BLASTS, TRAIN BLASTS AND 26/11(and more to come), CORRUPTION SPREAD RIGHT FROM THE TOP TO THE MAN ON THE STREET, A NATIONAL AIRLINE INCURRING LOSS OF THOUSANDS OF CRORES , A STUPID NEHRU WHO BELIEVED THE CHINESE AND MADE INDIA LICK THE DUST FOR ALL TIME TO COME (1962 WAR), CRUELTY TO ANIMALS, CELEBRITIES AND POLITICIANS MAKING FALSE ALLEGATIONS ON THE CREDIBILITY OF THE COUNTRY , LACK OF MEDICAL CARE AND FACILITIES, A RAJ THACKERY PROPAGATING HATE TOWARDS FELLOW INDIANS, CRIMINALISATION OF POLICE, UNAFFORDABLE PRICES OF VEGETABLES AND PULSES, CAPITATION FEES IN COLLEGES , PETROL & DIESEL PRICES AMONG THE HIGHEST IN THE WORLD, A GOVT YET AGAIN CAUGHT SLEEPING - ON SWINE FLU . . The list could go on and on.

Doesn't it look like a uncontrollable horror story which is being played on the lives of the 130 crore Indian population, which is only getting scarier by the day and acquiring a momentum which if not stopped immediately could only prove our enemies right like the Chinese strategist website iiss.org , which propagates China to help breakup India in to 20 - 30 parts.

In the 1970's China and India were equally poised but today China is leagues ahead of us, all successive gov ts never cared to create a good infrastructure for the country. Today we have our politicians of all party's deeply imbibed in a five star culture of living, working, traveling and attending page 3 parties, least bothered about the plight of the citizens who have voted them. All of them lack the will and the courage to transform themselves from a mere politician to a leader as today the country does not need a minister, the need of the hour is a LEADER. For e.g. - By not implementing the death sentence of Afzal Guru and other three terrorists involved in the Mumbai Gateway of India blasts the govt is encouraging hijacks, hostage crisis, bomb blasts etc , had Masood Azhar been given the capital punishment the Kandhar episode might not have occurred. Capital punishment therefore must be carried out in a timely fashion. Only then will it serve as a deterrent. As always we cannot expect this govt to rise to the occasion, these ministers have to willingly be ready to forsake their politics of vote banks, they should sacrifice their seats of power in the interest of the nation which only a Leader can - a minister cannot . History will never forgive them and neither will it forgive us for tolerating this. The sooner their masks come off the better, I only hope its not too late. Just forwarding my mails & articles is not enough.

Historical events even if they are evil occur by design for reasons that are not generally made known to the public, but are well known to those in power at the time. Franklin D. Roosevelt had been quoted as saying "IN POLITICS NOTHING HAPPENS BY ACCIDENT, IF IT HAPPENS IT WAS DESIGNED THAT WAY" If harmful events are planned , it follows that people who were about to suffer through the scheduled event would act to prevent the event from occurring if they knew about it in advance. The People expect the government to protect them from the harmful events.

But if the events still occur after the government officials and ministers had been expected to prevent them, the govt officials and ministers as well as the government has failed in their assigned duties. There are only two explanations as to why they failed.
1- The events overwhelmed them and could not have been prevented.
OR
2-The events were allowed to occur because some officials and ministers wanted them to occur.

What ever success economically and in the field of science, medicine and engineering Indians have achieved is due to the sheer hard work and determination of the people to upgrade their standard of living .62 years is a long time to eradicate poverty, water, food and energy crises, give good roads and infrastructure, stop crimes on women and children etc etc. How is it possible that our gov ts have failed on each and every count mentioned in the fourth paragraph .There are 1000 questions that we must ask ourselves on this Independence Day 15 August.2009. Let us not go waste the sacrifices our forefathers made so that we and our children live happily and flourish in this Last Land of our Ancestors.

Who dies if India lives and who lives if India dies? Think about it . . . OR Rather - Who lives if you die?
Now it is upon us Not to allow this country to become the LOST LAND OF OUR ANCESTORS, I don't have to remind you that what today is the Islamic Republic Of Pakistan, just 62 years back was INDIA . . . The Lost Land . . .

A 1OOO REASONS TO CELEBRATE . . . 15 AUGUST 2009

HAPPY INDEPENDENCE DAY !

VARON B K SHARMA
(author) of the novel "Assassination Of George Bush"
(story writer) of the critically accalaimed film "Black & White"

Added on: Aug 14th, 2009
Country: India
Language: English