Once upon a time, the biggest significance of Aug 15th was that it was a holiday. And Gandhi and Roja have given way to Lage Raho Munnabhai and Rang De Basanti..
Makes me wonder, the relevance of this day has become worse than it being just a holiday. And the irony? To make a free country, they burned foreign cloth. In a free country, we burn money to buy international brands that give special discounts on I-Day… No, this is not tirade against MNCs (hey, i use them too) but maybe, we should make this a normal day and stop mocking the efforts of a generation long gone?
until next time, born free, perhaps thats the root..
Don’t buy them? A no-purchase day?
Gandhiji’s soul would be glad.
Don’t wear them on independence day?
All our holidays are so commercial these days. Not looking forward Onam this year. 🙁
The very same things have different meanings to the same person at different points of time. Thats the wonder of it all…. would you have written “maybe, we should make this a normal day” when you were in school and happily munching on free Independence day sweets?
Still far better than July 4.
so apt those lines…. very nice
austere: nope, its beyond that.. next post
AP: yeah, onam is also a case in point…. thankfully the only martyr was mahabali
sreejith: ah, but exactly, everything is time dependent, including the concept of celebrating freedom days
kpowerinfinity: not very far though