Sunday, August 07, 2005

National Failures

We have a list of National ***** like National Anthem, National Song, National Animal, National Bird and what not. But I call them by one name, National Failures. Why so? Do we all know or sing our National Anthem? Or do we all know why not Vande Mataram our National Anthem? Not everyone wants to sing our National Song. We poached our National Animal to extinction. And no one cares about the National Bird either. We don't have a National leader but may be an international person acting as one. And why Hindi is our National language when not many can understand that? And why was it chosen in the first place? We may soon need to say Former National Animal and present National animal. We can instead call this a list of what we wanted to do and never did. Shame on us.

Why did we choose a British style Democracy when US was the most successful Democracy then? Why did we choose a weaker system? How can 543 jokers run a country where PM is a puppet of those jokers?

How come Hindi was chosen as the National language when Gujarath, Maharashtra, Karnataka, Punjab, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Andhra and West Bengal and entire North east does not speak Hindi? UP, MP, Rajasthan, Bihar are the only big states which speak Hindi. Was it just for a vote bank or to show the dominance of hindi speaking people in the govt? So there goes our failure in choosing the right one.

Do we all know the history of the country? I don know who ruled in Bengal or Gujarath for that matter? But we were all made to believe Mughals were the only rulers in the country. No one knows who built temple at Konark, but we are all taught who built the Taj. And we bicker about the Taj in every possible way. Who owns it, who pollutes it and what not?

We can add more such to the list of national failures. But no one can beat us in naming something as our national treasure and not treating it as one.

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