Proud Indeed!!

21,900 days. And today we are proud helding our head high, breathing the air of freedom and rejoicing the moment of national and historic significance. The INDEPENDENCE DAY!!

I always wonder why it gives me an immense pleasure when India as a cricket playing nation excels in the ICC cricket rating, when Viswanathan Anand is taking the unassailable lead in the CHESS playing world surpassing the Russian giants, when A R Rahman rocks Hollywood, when I hear 70% of the NASA incumbents are Indians, when half the population of the doctors in the UK is from my nation, when Sania Mirza enters the top 30 in the ATP rating, or even when Leander wins (apart from the Davis cup where he represents India); and for all the aforesaid I proudly attribute it to my so-called patriotism. But am I right in the logic? I doubt, though I couldn't say a stern NO.

If am called THE PATRIOT, then what do we call those freedom-fighters who had spent their entire life, or if not, most of their lives in prison, contagiously passing on the freedom spree to the fellas around them. Goes imperative that sans the sacrifice, the beating and the loss of more than a million noble and tough souls, we could not have been in an independent nation nor could have come out of the slavery and the butchery.

So let's all get together and salute the Nation and the Heroes who ensured an Independent India for us to live on this 60th Independence Day, August, the 15th. And most importantly salute the spirit of freedom. We are proud of you!! Proud indeed!! LONG LIVE INDEPENDENCE!!