Happy Republic Day

I am blogging at a very comfortable rate of one blog per year! That's the good thing about being in a free country like India. You can do things your way. To think that 63 years have passed from the fateful day we resolved to make ourselves to be the supreme authority over ourselves is amazing. Though we seem to ask ourselves whether this is really true many a times in our life, we should be conscious of the fact that given all the fallacies, weakness and all  other bad things about this republic, we are still going strong. We should at the very outset take proud of the fact that, no matter what, we backed our forefather's decisions and kept this great country alive as a republic when we saw many a country fall back to autocratic ways. The past few years have been the most turbulent of times, in terms of the kinds of corruption we seem to be unearthing in various walks of life in our country. We are baking in limelight whatever the reason is - either good or bad. We cannot ignore the fact that the world has started to take attention to this part of the world. In history of any country, there comes a time when it has to make some decisions, the citizens of the country has to make some resolutions. To quote the former USA president John F. Kennedy - "Ask not what the country has done for you... Ask what you have done for the country". I think its time when we start thinking on these lines. It would not be radical if we in our subtle simple ways change our ways of living and think of doing something for the society in our daily tasks. It can be as trivial as switching off fans and lights when not in use, conducting ourselves well in society, stopping on red lights at intersections and so on. As they say, when small things look after themselves, the great things fall into place. I would say that as this republic day dawns into our life, we should resolve ourselves to be a bit more responsible that what we are the previous night. This is just a starting point. Its heartening to see so many people like you and me who wish from bottom of their heart, that the country should progress. With so many people thinking and acting on these lines, I am sure that glory is not far away. It wont be far from truth, when I say that we are all poised to becoming the beacon light leading the world. I hope that in one of these coming republic days, I could blog telling all of you "I said so". For how much we complain, we know that we belong to this great country. From the bottom of our hearts we want it to develop. Wherever we are, whatever we are doing, lets take some time today and take pride about belonging to this great nation and wish ourselves Happy Republic Day!! May the country prosper and we along with it.