Vande Mataram

Mother India is celebrating her 73rd Independence Day today. I was talking to Ramesh and both of us felt how eager we are in the recent years to listen to our Prime Minister's speech at Redfort! 

It is not just because of any political affiliation. We used to watch the flag hoisting earlier as well (in television). Maybe then we never had the patience to listen to the somewhat dull speeches from the Redfort! 

The routine words such as "nation", "development", "economy", "terrorism", "employment", "industry", "education", "health", "farmers", "poverty" came and disappeared in those speeches! But recent years we grew this interest of listening attentively to the Redfort speech. It has changed its contours. It is more dramatic, It is more inspirational, It is more patriotic and with all these it instills more energy into us!

And today, in the backdrop of Redford we listened to the 73rd Independence Day speech - as lively as it has been for the past 5 years! Today's speech touched upon so many diverse things - Jal Jeevan, Population Explotion, Wealth Creators, Chief of Defence Staff (CDS), Discard Plastic Bag, use cloth jute bag and Plastic Recycling, Digital Payment, Low Use of Pestcides, Domestic Tourism, Local Shopping, One Nation one Constitution, One Nation one Card, One Nation one Polling, 100 crore investment for infrastructure in five years, 5 Trillion Economy, India will not be mute on terror and so on.

Interestingly, I struggled to listen the Independence speech today on a television with weak signal, breaking throughout the speech while Ramesh had his own struggle listening to the same on an FM radio while he was driving down. 

However, without even knowing our individual struggles, we both were proving each other how staunch devotees we are now of the Independence Day speeches!

Vande ! Mataram !!