Today is the 73rd anniversary of our
freedom from the British Raj. In popular discourse, people are given to
understand that India that is Bharat became a nation only after August 15, 1947
and before that we did not exist as a Nation. This completely wrong and
motivated idea was planted in our minds by the so called left liberal historians
and self-seeking politicians. By inventing a weird definition of “Secularism” which
is in no way comparable to the western idea from which it is supposed to have
flown, a vote bank polity was created by banishing all religious teachings from
educational institutions. So our kids do not read Ramayana, Mahabharata or Bhagavat
Gita in schools and grow up as “Seculars” meaning bereft of any tradition and
culture.
Today is the day we should remember as a day when in
1947 there was only a transfer of power from the British to Indian hands. The
Nation as such was there and will continue to be there with all its
civilizational values. We are a civilizational nation which means within the
broad Sanatana Parampara there could be varied cultural currents all feeding
from the same principles and all enriching the same culture. India is the only
continuing civilization out of the 45 odd that the planet has seen.
Today we are especially happy since we have, of
late, been able to take tough decisions as a Nation and have projected both our
hard and soft power on the world stage. As an aspiring $5 Trillion economy and a space superpower, we have to
bring up the bottom half of our people to a decent standard of living.
We have started building our nation on our
principles for the past five years and a solid foundation has been laid for
future development. This development will be on the principles of antodaya, samajik samarasata and our way
of growth.
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