The Wings of Freedom

Today is Republic Day.  For a country like India with a rich culture of intense diversities, a democratic constitution is a precious gift and wonderful answer to enable minds and hearts to express ourselves freely without chains and ropes to tie us down, but rather we are free to flourish in trade, businesses, religion, individuality with freedom to speak our hearts to the masses, freedom to write books and movies to express personal views, and freedom to make build, repair and restore and invent without being bogged down by the clogging clay of restriction, power and control. The freedom of expression gave India rise to a new level of creativity that brought this nation to an international level.

There are neighboring nations around India, which do not have a democratic freedom of expression. These countries are bound in militant forms of government never have risen up to fly on the winds of the freedom. They are suppressed and repressed and in their repression are frustrated. Some of these nations have fostered terrorists, who in a repressed society took to arms and guns to experience the "thrill" of freedom and took many with them along the way.

India has risen to the heights of freedom of speech, expression and religion due to democracy, which allows us to express our individuality, work as we wish, be self employed, flourish in businesses, practice our religion and speak out our views without fear.

In the past, we had practices of horrors such as sati, the burning a widow alive after her husband dies, child sacrifice, where in some places, children were sacrificed to gods and child marriage. All these were abolished by a democratic constitution because democracy believes in the right to life and adds value and worth to human beings.

Today, we are slowly slipping away from the democratic way of thought. Today on social media, we have a hate movement which openly opposes a democratic form of government saying that India has too much diversity, too many religions and languages so they want to do away with democracy. They are revolting against the constitution of India, which is a democratic constitution. Today, we have voices vehemently and vindictively label other fellow citizens as anti-national at the drop of a hat hounding and harassing them. This is a dangerous declaration to make over other citizens of the country who are obviously loyal law-abiding citizens. In reality, we are seeing a rise of a movement having fascist foundations. We think these voices, working through the wormwood will fade away, but these are little seeds planted everywhere will soon start to grow to eventually choke the spirit of freedom and democracy.

History proves that countries over the world failed and fell flat down in dictatorship systems of government. These systems never worked and the people were suppressed and internally rebellious, and financially did not flourish and even if did well financially, were not overflowing in the abundance of manufacture and creativity. Countries like China, Libya, Russia, Nigeria and many others have embraced a democratic government having suffered for decades under militant forms of governments.

The Creator Himself who made Mankind gives freedom of choice to Mankind. He never imposes His mind on humans to make us His puppets. This is the divine pattern for Mankind and if we move away from that divine pattern, we get entangled in a web. When we embrace a democratic form of government, we can rise on the wings of freedom to shine in our individuality and creativity and fulfill our dreams and ambitions. Let us never reject democracy. If we do reject democracy, our wings will be clipped and in a cage we will remain never to sing again. Let us never lose democracy! Let us rise on wings of an eagle in the wonderful freedom of expression and action.

Rita Farhat Kurian

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