Giri at 1700 hrs on 14th August 2011
Tomorrow will be the 64th birthday of a wonderful nation called India; a nation that I am a citizen of, a nation that I am simultaneously proud of and ashamed of – proud that several of its leaders in politics, business and the various professions, as well as many ordinary people have constantly strived and succeeded in creating environments where economic and social growth and development have seen progress, proud of the stability of its institutions (not necessarily their vibrancy!) – ashamed when I see that many of my fellow-citizens are habitually rude in public behaviour or in social settings, ashamed to know that cleanliness is an alien concept in most of urban India, ashamed that corruption continues to gnaw the sinews of the nation and ashamed that I am still struggling to make sense of how I can make my country proud.
I guess one option will be to move forward to implement a couple of ideas that have been discussed in earlier columns of Sujavna. I do know that the idea of logging these ideas is a necessary first step, which I have been sincerely doing. Has the time for putting some of these ideas to action come? How and when do I take the next steps?
Hope you all are having a good weekend. Wishing you a great week ahead.
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