On the midnight of 14th August 1947. The destiny of a country was rewritten in sweat, blood and in ink, a whole genera of humans woke up to a free and independent nation. My recent visit to the Indian High commission on the Independence day's eve brought back a string of memories from high school days, luckily I did diligently polish my shoes the night before. :-)
As always my unsolicited experiments to explore emotions brought me to the famous speech by Mr. Jawaharlal Nehru, the first prime minister of Independent India.
"A moment comes, which comes but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new, when an age ends, and when the soul of a nation, long suppressed, finds utterance".
As I kept going through the speech over and over again, I was initially trying to understand my own sense of freedom, which has infact always amused me. The rich words that describe freedom in the quote can be applied to a variety of context, even a seed sprouting out from the earth gives a similar sigh of relief.
Freedom has always been the basest of the human desires, many a times we yearn for it as if it were the air we breathe. History indeed comes to the rescue in this case, there are a countless incidences in the evolution of the modern man/woman which attribute their significance to the desire of being free, to live as a free soul and to prosper with a free will.
"But, has the modern man/woman with all his/her intelligence and wisdom learned to respect the spirit of freedom?"
One can look at this world from a multitude of perspectives and draw up conclusions accordingly, yet there will always be a few unanswered questions and a few untied knots. The general strife/well-being that the humanity faces from time to time and its solution/celebration always lies with the freedom and the spirit of the choice that we face at each particular point of time. Destiny may have planned a lot for us but we humans have been gifted the ability to rewrite destiny itself. Someday in the future, I wish history would reveal how humankind understood their tryst with destiny and preserved their spirit of freedom.
~ Pancha Janya ~
