NATIONAL FESTIVALS or...HOLIDAYS....??
Being a citizen of India we all are privileged with three special days...Independence day,Republic day and Gandhi Jayanti,which we can celebrate,with a feeling of togetherness irrespective of our caste and religion.

These days were declared as the "national festivals" of our country.But now people better know them as "national holidays".On these days most of us like to wake up late in the morning and want to spend their mornings sitting at their homes, in front of television(idiot box) or reading a newspaper and enjoying the morning tea.

Was this the reason to declare these days as national festivals?We never forget to wake up early in the morning and go to our respective worship places on the other festival days then why we dont celebrate our national festivals with the same enthusiasm.....???

Those who have to go to their respective workplaces or schools and colleges on these days just consider it as a work which has to done that too just because of the orders of their superiors....On other festival days we very happily go to greet our friends and relatives...at that point of time no one else has to give us orders to do so...then why such is the case with national festivals??

Following the trends of western culture we now celebrate "mothers day" but our nation which we term as our motherland we cant even celebrate these national festivals with the feeling of togetherness for her sake.Are these festivals made only for the soldiers??Whenever their is a news about that a soldier of ours is martyred we all are filled with greif but when u are given a day to remember them and pay tribute to them we dont have time to do so....

"Ae mere watan k logon zara aankh mein bhar lo paani..."not because we people are paying tribute to our soldiers...but because we should be ashamed of the attitude we are having...

26 January......Independence day
Shocked...this was my reaction when i heard that people of my own country didn't even know that whether 26January is republic day or independence day....and it was even more shocking when i came to know who those people were who gave this naswer.. "26 january is independence day" TEACHERS of a school at Bhopal....

This news was flashed on NDTV India on 26 jan 2006 when they went to a school at Bhopal just to see what all preperations are going on for Republic Day and asked few questions about this day from the teachers of that school...

Maximum of them said that its independence day...some said that on this day constitution was made(i felt a bit relieved on hearing this but....)they continued and said in 1857 our constitution was made.

Some said that its just a day to remember the freedom fighters of India who fought for our independence.In todays world we are not having time to remember them so our government has declared this very day to remember them.

The thought that who all people were giving these answers trembled me...The future of our country is in their hands and they dont even know about the history(independence day) of our country.

Is this the fault of those teachers or the fault of our weak education system?If this is the scenario in a city(that too a state capital)then what else can you expect from a village side school.These wrong teachings must have been given to them by their teachers and as they all have studied from various schools imagine the condition of other schools too and how many other people must be celebrating 26 jan as.....Independence Day

How can you even imagine the progress of a country where the future is in the hands of people who cannot even termed as uneducated but should be termed as ill-educated...