Freedom at Midnight

14th August 2006

As midnight approaches, India readies herself to celebrate 60 years of freedom. When I begin to list the reasons that I would celeberate this occasion, I am still thinking. I meditated on it this evening as I went about the mundane essential activities.

Are we free?

WE are not FREE. Where is freedom? The  freedom that the Mahatma bestowed upon us, Ingrates, is LOST , its footprints in our His-story erased by the years that followed.   We are bound to untruths, And selfishness, We Enchained Our Selves to Ignorance, while hunger, poverty and injustice keep us faithful company.

“Must We need Security to celebrate FREEDOM in the heart of the nation , the CAPITAL???”

We have dug ourselves a deeper pit, much treacherous than in the olden (g)olden days.

That is what I have to  celeb-rate, Yes , cele- berate.

Freedom is  not not free. Neither are WE.

-A