VANDE MATRAM

15th August,2008

Happy Independence Day

As the stroke of midnight on 15th August 00:00 Hrs IST my cell fone starts beeping with messages from my friends wishing me Happy Independence Day and my mind starts wondering whether they actually mean it or is it just their joy of getting one fine day to relax and what our generation Y says "chillax" ;) or probably it is so fashionable to message ur near n dear ones as soon as possible on all the ocassions from dussehra to besakhi to the finale that is d new year.

Now i should not deviate from what i was thinking about i mean guyz dats us the " generation Y" everybody thinks the above points about us but i would like to say we agree that we are not as patriotic as our elders but seriously, mom n dad we are not that bad i mean for us patriotism is about different things we do, maybe little, but it matters like jumping like mad when indian cricket team wins T-20 finals and promising god that we will visit the temple "nange paer"(bare foot) if india wins. Our patriotism is shown when we promise ourselves that i am going to vote this year maybe my friends or our seniors that is the Generation X do not support it but I will for sure. Its when we have tears of joy in our eyes when we realize that Mr. Abhinav has earned us our first olympic gold and also the way we give examples with pride of our Indian brothers and sisters who are living outside India but making us proud. And how can we forget movies like Rang De Basanti which totally proves my point that "Even though we wear gucci's perfume, d&g clothes, prada's watch and we want to go to US or UK for further studies but, still we love our country and we are proud to be Indians so please don't get us wrong and do respect us as well"

because we also stand straight with pride when our Indain National Anthem is played. So in the end I would like to end by saying "Vande Matram"