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...