Freedom..Well do you really think your LIFE's got it??

Well guys, I feel I ask a lot of questions, but I don’t know what you feel about it...but yes I do ask a lot of questions. Who do you think got us freedom? Why do you think there should be a struggle for achieving our freedom? Why do you want freedom at all? What do you think freedom is? Well, I don’t have answers for these but I guess these questions must be bothering you now and then, if not always. They must be bothering you when you happen to watch “The Legend of Bhagath Singh” or on August 15^th or at least on January 26^th when you watch the Indian Flag floating proudly in the air and if you get to watch some cultural programs on this day at your school, college...blah blah. Why I am asking you these questions? Hmm...I happened to go to Andaman and Nicobar Islands recently. It was a short trip for about four days. You know “KALAPANI”...probably this name at least takes you into the history of freedom fight or at least reminds you of the movie KALAPANI starring Mohanlal. The place WAS very well known for the “CELLULAR JAIL”. It starts with a watch house at the centre and seven rectangular blocks extending on its sides and the locus of their ends more or less looks like a circle. Built out of heavy rocks and cement...obviously...the cells have high ceiling without any sort of facilities that we enjoy today. The latch of each cell has its bolt well hidden away from the prisoner...not like the one shown in movies where the hero sometimes just opens the lock just by a small shot on it with his bare hands. Our Indian freedom fighters used to live in such rooms, don’t mind me describing this...had to shit in there for more than a fortnight without even cleaning it and when it was time to clean, they themselves had to clean it with their bare hands. Can you even imagine doing that? Would you imagine yourself in that position? Every Indian prisoner entering the cellular jail was no less than a slave to the British. No PROPER food, No PROPER light, No PROPER water, No PROPER treatment at least like that of a human being, No communication among the Indian Prisoners...NOTHING AT ALL. C’mon, put yourself in that position. How would you feel if you were locked up in your room forcefully all day without having anyone to talk to you? You don’t even know if you would ever leave that room to see YOUR people. It could be worse than what you can imagine. But they lived with one hope, the HOPE that INDIA will be free one day and they lived only for that day. If they went through all the pain, all the regardless treatment, it was because INDIA would be free one day. There was this prisoner called VEER SAVARKAR. He was teased by the jailer of the cellular jail who said...that you are going to remain here in this jail for another fifty years...for which VEER answered or rather asked “Do you think you are going to stay here for another fifty years...INDIA will be free by then...don’t you see the fight has already begun?” Such was his confidence on the future of INDIA. The international airport at Andaman has been named after him as...”VEER SAVARKAR INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT”. This is the love and affection that those Indians for the future or present INDIA and the INDIANS. But think guys...do you really think you are repaying their kindness?? Are we really living in a country that they dreamt of? Are we really living in a country which they wanted to live in? Well, I don’t even know how eligible I am to talk about all this. Mind you, I am not belittling myself by bringing in my eligibility, just giving you a chance to think that you are far better than me so that you will do something for OUR INDIA. Better idea is that, WE will do something for INDIA. This is only a small attempt to allow ourselves realise the efforts put in by our freedom fighters to give us a chance to build INDIA OF OUR DREAMS. You know half of the freedom fighters died young probably at thirty. Well, we don’t want to die but only do something for INDIA. ALL THE BEST!! WISH YOU ALL SUCCESS IN YOUR FUTURE ENDEAVORS FOR INDIA!!