Random thoughts....on 15th aug

Independence day ..one of the most memorable days in my life. This is the second time iam attending the flag hoisting at IISc. Last year i was with my seniors.Now iam a senior.

Though i missed the flag hoisting and speech by Balaram, the director of our institute. I attended for kannada and hindi speeches.

Then there were patriotic songs by Rythmica (a band maintained by students in our collg) who sang Vandematram and AR Rehaman's Maa tujhey salam. Usually iam crazy about music and songs.It was perfect..timing was excellent.A bit more practise wud have been made it more wonderful song and wud have given more impact.When i was hearing them..i felt a unknown happiness. I wanted to dance out of joy, my eyes started watering. I just closed my eyes. I felt that i shud be proud to be an indian and after all we r at IISc to serve india. We have got a chance to do so. All my good old school days were flashing in my mind. We used to attend it for sweets they
used to give us after the function. Now i feel a responsiblity for my country. I donno y we lose the spirit as soon as the day ends? Even iam not an exception.Y dont we have the same feeling all the year long? Is it some thing like..raat gayi aur baat bhi gayi??

I remember that when i was in my schooling, we celebrated 50th year of independence and our principal saying that, its a gr8 thing for us bcoz we r breathing air in free india.Its a fruit we r enjoying due to the sacrifice of many people. We went all aorund the school carrying th flags.We were enjoying every moment of it. We felt that we were doing someting gr8. That was age of pure adoloscence.Now even after growing big, i feel i have done nothing ..absolutely nothing.

I was lost in thoughts. By the time i was back into this world ;) the faculty of our college sang 2 songs (both of them were unknown to me..one was in kannada and other was in hindi) ..i cud get only some words like vasudaiva kutumbam and other words of praise for country.

vasudaiva kutumbam.. a very sensitive word. A word to be understood and digested well.It says to show tolerance towards our fellow beings. It says we all belong to same family. So much to derive from each word!

Later was the turn of the children of the staff. I thought they would sing. But to my surprise it was a instrumental song of Sarey Jahan Sey Accha. There were 2-3 i guess (i was standing at last so cud not c who they were). They played the keyboard, tabla. It was really good. I did not expect such small children to play it so well.

There ended the songs session and Balaram sir gave his final words. I felt happy for that bcoz i already missed his actual speech. He is so encouraging and the way he speaks makes us think.
He repeated the words (though not exact) "I want to repeat my words which i said last yeaU are standing here under the shadow of the statue of jamshed tata who dreamt of india's future. In front of us u c his vision.He cud not c his dreams fulfilled.But u can c the outcome of it.we shud be proud to be here and try to realize his vision".

He concluded saying that there are forces which have not left the place as peaceful as it was before.The incident on 28th of dec has taught us abt that. We can overcome such situations only by collective effort. My fav was "Sweets are available at all the corners" :D