Men or women take birth in India, die in India, grow up in India, get education in India but do they ever think of serving people in India? Do they ever think of serving nationhood in India?
Today we were on our college assignment of collecting vox-pox of the people on the issue of ‘the extent of media coverage shown by media on the mumbai terror attack’. We took up this issue voluntary to know about the opinion of the masses as we ourselves felt curious about the variety of views we would be getting. Surprisingly to collect the vox-pox we went to India gate and we met people coming from various walks of life.
After talking to the military official (expired an retired), this thought pinched me a lot, that what kind of services are we offering to our country. We sit back at our homes and actually crib over the kind of things that are happening in our country. But do we ever make an effort to participate in this kind of effort. Forget about all other things but do we actually care about giving vote to the right candidate. We are very much aware which actress is playing a role in which particular movie but are we actually bothered about the martyrs who have sacrificed their life for the nation. Of course we don’t and we might be remembering a name or two. Don’t they deserve at least respect?
It is irony of the human mind that we hardly remember good things that we either do to ourselves or to others but bad memories always get retained in our mind. We remember our politicians and the work they do for us, but do we ever think of military soldiers that die fighting for us? It is hard to digest this fact but what I personally felt today after doing the assignment was that India is somehow giving a wrong message of a scared country rather than a generous and peace loving country. We really need to think again the way we had been serving the country.
(By Priyanka Mittal)
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i agree to you priyanka...we all crib as the incident remains fresh in our mind...the second anythg new comes uo we tend to forget the old issue.
for eg kosi flood in recrnt time was fatal and was declared as national calamity but afer cribing abt it for a week or so we all forgot it.
our media encash on such issues live coverage of flood and criticism of polotical parties and poor disaster management resulted in nothing but high TRPs.is it practically possible that the problem of those flood victims doesnt exixt now...we are patriotic onlt when somethg new happens and the feeling stays with us for 4 to 5 day maximum...most of us consider 15 aug, 26 jan or voting day as holiday....we need to be aware to keep this fire burning in us all the time.
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