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I do not know. When I was watching today episode there was a lump in my throat. Something like I knew what is coming in the story. Yes it is a story, but in that story I saw a larger perspective today. Freedom of India. The freedom struggle from my history books flashed before my eyes.
India is called the land of knowledge. It is called the nation that accumulates everything, its identity is a mix of everything that has come into it culture. No where in the world you can see a temple, mosque and church side by side. Most of us would have grown up in schools, colleges where we had friends cutting across religions. We would have celebrated Christmas, Diwali and Eid together many times. That's India. Attacked many times. Blood shed many times. But every time our internal strength, our bonding has made us stand up. Nobody has been able to destroy the basic fabric of tolerance in our country.
Today in Swadeenta I saw a girl born to Hindu parents, bought up by Muslim parents. And just like people cutting across religious lines laid their lives for giving freedom to Mother India, just like soldiers cutting across religious lines are still protecting our borders, protecting the soverignity of their motherland, Swadeenta or freedom has 2 brothers. One Hindu, another Muslim. Both are not blood relations. Still they are her brothers.
And for her safety, for the safety of the generations to come in all possibility both are going to sacrifice their lives. We need to know one blast was stopped by Abhay, other by Asad.World might give credit to her Hindu brother, while making her Muslim brother accused.
But can she take it. Can she say her one brother's sacrifice is over and above the other. Should both sacrifice get due recognition.
Isnt it because many times the prejudices makes us not acknowledge certain contributions these terrorists are able to de stabilize our land. Isnt our cultural plurality our greatest strength.
Today iftikaar alias aravind tells they have larger plans. These larger plans are nothing but power games and religion is just a medium for them to get power.
Shouldn't the real message of religion go out which is that of love which is the true power. Shouldn't the current generation acknowledge the pain many families bore to give us this stability.
Freedom is hard fought. It is the duty of every Indian to protect it. safeguard it. Not only for us. But also for the coming generation. Else like Manohar tells in our selfishness we leave an unsafe world for our kids to live.
Anupamaa
