Incredible India

Growing up in a nation where birth rate and population ratios touch the skies, children don’t see many prospects of development here. And it is also somewhere justified on their behalves. Why would they want to be citizens of a country where meals cost more than survival, where racism has a nest of its own in every heart, where education is a lifelong dream, where labourers and wage-earners are treated with as much respect one would give to a rat, where religion is still a barrier never to be surmounted and money is a distant memory?

Poverty-stricken families of millions everywhere, struggling to find edible food, a job that would pay for a day’s meal, a shelter and clothing. They are denied of these simple pleasures of life or what we might address as ‘basic human rights’ as it is too much to ask for. Our country is remembered for it’s mendicancy and penury. A walk down any street would bring us face to face with at least twenty beggars.

Political parties and government living up to the game of promises and assertions that they no longer tend to keep. Gone are those days when humanity run the country. One can only survive if cash is contained in the pockets.

The list is long enough to be finished with. People can bring down our country to its knees, say that there is probably no ray of hope, nothing good about living here and they might as well be right. But do we really stop hoping for the sun to shine when it’s monsoon?

In spite of everything, one can still find people wanting to stay in a country like ours. India is a country you can never manage to paint with just one colour. Every colour will fall short. The people, the places, the castes, the food. You name anything and you will find at least ten different variants in that. That’s how out of the common our country is.

India perhaps is the most unsymmetrical, imperfect, and fallible country. But don’t imperfections portray the unfeigned? They do. Our country is one which smashes reality right across your face and is not ashamed to do so. There are a thousand reasons to be embarrassed about defending a country like ours, but here as I write this, there will be many to risk it all.