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.
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
We
thank God for India with its constitution of democracy and may her wings never
be clipped or else, in a cage we will remain never to sing again. Let us rise
on wings of an eagle in the wonderful freedom of expression and action.
Rita
Farhat Kurian
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