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The Incredible India
India, the land of Gods. A land where people of various religions and cultures live and experience a vast range of colours and shades ever since its existence. A country which took place in the world map and has its own unique identity has bagged the title 'The Golden Bird' in its ancient history.
This Golden Bird, however, is believed to have a royal past where huge kingdom, beautiful palaces, magic and immense wealth in the form of gold (which signifies Goddess Lakshmi) existed. A land which also embraced Himalayas and the purest river Ganga in its arms. India is surely a land where even stones are worshipped. Trees, mountains, rivers, temples, sun, earth, moon, animals are treated as the various forms of God and are worshipped whole heartedly. A land which is believed where Lord Ram and Lord Krishna and various other Gods have taken 'avatars' and have played several 'leelas' in order to discriminate between good and evil.
Centuries later, the country took the form where emprerors like Ashoka The Great, Akbar The Great, Shahjahan and many others ruled and gave the country a new direction and identity. But soon the land of dreams lost its well being and was invaded by Britishers slowly and gradually due to the 'Divide and Rule' policy, which unknowingly existed among the ruling leaders itself. Soon the visitors/ traders became the rulers and former leaders ran away for shades. People from outside looted the country's wealth whole handedly and this was when the land with the golden charm, The Golden Bird, became a poor country. People became slaves and longed for food and shelter and often died due to poverty.
As time passed by, people became habitual but still there were some people who were constantly trying hard to get rid of the invaders and make the people a part of a free democratic nation. Several methods were employed, many plannings were made, both violent and non-violent in nature. Many people lost their lives in this fight for the nation.The time was really critical and harsh.
There was no hope until leaders like Bhagat singh, Sardar Ballabh Bhai Patel, Chandra Shekhar Azad, Rani Lakshmi Bai, Mahatma Gandhi et.al came and shook the country with their ideas and strength. They aroused a hope in the minds of the people of a rising sun. People united under their influence, raise their voices which made the Britishers leave the country soon. Thus The Golden Bird became a free bird again, a democratic country, India, which celebrates its Independence Day every year on 15th August since 1947, and those brave leaders, the mortal beings, bacame immortal in the History of this land.
Since then, the country is spreading its wings and giving a tough comptetion to the world. Rest countries are well aware of the immense power that resides in India i.e, The Youth Power. Today, India's youth is participating in each and every field and are raising their flags of victory, be it education, business, sports, music, media or health.
Through this, it all seems to be a fairy tale but its not exactly so. Population, pollution, corruption, politicians, child labour, child marriage, and above all, terrorism like worms are eating away the country's prosperity and peace and making the nation ill irrespective of the various efforts that are being applied to cure these killing and painful diseases. But the good news is, more and more people are taking interest in these various issues day by day and are actively participating in the various attempts made in order to just delete their existence for ever. Here the check is, this is only the starting, a initial phase, which requires more efforts from a lot more people.
Here, through this article I want to mention one thing that there are always good and bad times. Somewhere God has made sure that if kindness exists, there also exists evil. If God exists, devils also have their existence, in order to make them differentiable (I guess).
However, we people (in India especially) in our tough times wait for our 'Taaranhaars', the one who will relieve us from all our sufferings, but we forget that in some way or the other that 'Taaranhaar' exists within us. The only thing that matters is when we REALISE it.
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