Four years from now, our nation will be celebrating its 75th year of freedom. While we take pride in calling ourselves patriotic, over the years people have probably forgotten the real heroes behind our freedom while some have a totally inappropriate view of the facts.
NK TV video:
A reality check by one of our NK TV reporters implies that this day has simply grown as one of the many public holidays that a person looks up to besides putting up Facebook posts to reveal his “patriotic fervour.”
A few relevant questions posed by us, namely, the colours on our national flag, names of our freedom fighters, received some startling replies. One person who funnily got one of the names right, i.e Mahatma Gandhi went on to say that Rajiv Gandhi as our freedom fighter! The Ashoka Chakra was hailed as the Yuva Chakra!
While we may laugh at these people’s ignorance, it actually needs some deep afterthought on why the real heroes have now just become a name for political mileage and how in this 71 years of independence, the real motive behind their sacrifice of united India stands defeated with the nation still cursed with the evils of corruption, casteism and poverty to name a few.