Contribute towards your country’s progress

My heartfelt wishes to you all on this momentous occasion as we relive this historic day back in time 75 years ago when our Mother India reclaimed her lost glory from the clutches of foreign rule.
Enslaved by their dictates, our ancestors’ dissenting voices were met with prejudice and bigotry. As they succumbed to their fate, their civil liberties were trampled upon with mere disregard.
However  these subjugated voices could not be stifled for long as India, in due course of time, gave birth to freedom fighters and social activists like Bhagat Singh, Raja Ram Mohan Roy, Chandra Sekher Azad, Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose and many more, who have been game changers in restoring the Indian sovereignty. The Indian freedom struggle united men and women across a large spectrum of society and galvanised them into action.
Gandhiji’s time tested strategies of ‘ahimsa’ gained momentum and became a global phenomenon ever since those days of struggle in combat.
As we honour our patriots and recognise their contributions toward the freedom struggle, we need to realise that even though we may bask in this stupendous legacy handed down to us, we too as custodians of our country, still have a lot to manifest and to contribute if we truly yearn to see our country progress to great heights, when we realise that the sea of humanity is large enough to contain a strength of being and force devoid of unscrupulous traits that can otherwise  plunge us into dregs of misery and poverty.  
As I echo these hopes and wishes, I would like to express my thoughts in poetic composition that resonates deeply with my spirits:
 I would like to dream a dream
Where every human could identify himself
Not by his class or creed
But by a sense of helping another in need
Our ancestors entrusted our Bharat Mata unto us
Through endless trials, battles and protests
Producing revolutionaries of sheer grit and brawn
Working selflessly till the break of dawn
To secure us a land
Flowing rich in milk and honey
But sadly the holy waters of the Ganga and its tributaries
Have drenched us in untold misery
The long drawn battle from 1857 to 1947
Attributed to the coercers of imperialism
Who plundered territories, divided and casted their lots
Displacing millions, without due thought
Religious animosity and demography
Has bluntly demarcated the human entity
When a casteist hierarchy of a tall order
Confounded in superstitious beliefs if one crossed the border
But we have come a long way since 1947
Emancipating women, abolishing old practices
Protecting the ideals of democracy and secularism
And dealing with matters that call for pragmatism
The Green Revolution came about
Boosting a self-sufficient economy
But the Farming Bills induced by political vagary
Propelled our farmers into slavery
We immortalise our bygone leaders
By cashing them on legal tenders
Erecting monuments of such dizzy heights
Knowing not its intention in hindsight
The devastating pandemic starkly imposed itself
Provoking debilitating economic shockwaves
Derailing migrants on a forsaken thoroughfare
Steeped in unaccounted deaths was a scare
Holding 28 states and 8 Union Territories
With over 19,500 spoken languages
India is a melting pot of vibrant cultures
Which is quite gratifying at this juncture
What would you reckon for the near future
To restore the vestigates of a forgotten past?
Or appease your dignity with scheming recompense?
It’s time we infused some moral sense
So on this 75th Independence Day
As we extol the richness of our glorious past
Let us not idle away in acts of complacency
But instead plug the loopholes of deficiency
So let us pledge to honour and defend our nation in the likeness of our martyrs who lived and died for national pride. Our prevalent crises triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic has served as an opportunity to accelerate our efforts and services in keeping with our cultural ethos and values by virtue of our conduct. Pope John Paul II firmly asserts this belief as he said, “When freedom does not have a purpose, when it does not wish to know anything about the rule of law engraved in the hearts of men and women, when it does not listen to the voice of conscience, it turns against humanity and society.”