Progressive Nation

What triggers a revolution? I don’t really have that answer, I am not too sure. Are you?

I read the following quote: “The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall.”

200 odd years ago, India witnessed a revolution and thus ended the British rule. 1947, India witnessed the birth of Pakistan. Since 1947, India has risen, grown, and progressed in every possible way. Agreed, we are not 100 percent everywhere but at least we have started, we are aware of the hurdles and the hardships involved, and where are weakness lies.

For long, we have achieved the “progressive” nation tag. Getting a tag like that is not a walk in the park, we have achieved it coz we have dedicated our lives to what we do best. We have let go our personal happiness to grow. Let me give you an example; I work with a product based company and we have product releases going out every now and then. We work as a team and there is no individual effort. Before we start working on the release, we all are assigned our tasks. When we start working, our leaders give us either daily or weekly updates on how the release is shaping-up. Weekly meetings keep the team involved. The leaders are equally involved from day one. When the release is over we celebrate as a team and if ever the release fails, it is the team’s failure.

Now, what I intended to ask was, whether our leaders and we share the same chemistry? I say, NO. We have the right to choose our leaders but we don’t have the right to work along with them. We do not influence our leader’s decisions. Our country’s progress is directly proportionate to our progress but do we see it happening. Why only after a jolt, after the sacrifice of the human lives, my nation wakes up? Why the leaders of my country fail to see the misery and pain of my countrymen? Why do we feel so helpless and confused when something is amiss? Why do we keep knocking at the wrong doors hoping that someone will hear us?

Has our nation truly progressed? 3000 years ago, a revolution wiped out the dinosaurs from the face of the earth. Are we waiting for a similar revolution? Hasn’t the fruit of our tolerance ripe enough, hasn’t the acts of a few beings not motivating enough to get our acts together and react. Wait, I am not referring to a WAR. War is like an official killing, you do not have to hide behind a face and kill others. War is taken as a token for survival. War is required when peace leaves you. War happens when you have left with no choices. At the end of the day, WAR kills you.

I am referring to our acts, why did we have to create this community, why did Maj. UnniKrishnan and alike had to sacrifice their lives, why do we act arrogant when people go away, why we go silent when days go passing by?

Shuffling and re-shuffling of political parties, lashing each others acts, postmortem the situations that lead to massive destruction, talking nonsense, and so on. After every major political blunder why do we see the same picture?

When are we as a nation going to gear up and get our acts right, when will our knocks be heard, after how many sacrifices will this nation wake up?

I never knew “WHY” such importance has in the English language and in our lives too.