August 15 is the anniversary of India's independence.
was August 15, 1947 when it was proclaimed the nation and the British left the Indian subcontinent. So I'm 60 years old, round number. It 'an opportunity to reflect on where it came to India today, what won and what there is to be done. Institute of the Blind, there was a program of preparation for the Independence Day, which started months before my arrival. Each week the children have studied a state in India (a bit 'as we were studying in elementary Italian regions) highlighting the positive aspects. Then
many lessons on the "freedom fight" against the British, against the injustices that the British implement in India. In the end, between the Indian flags waving, the children sing the anthem of India.
not nationalism, at least it seemed. My impression is the opposite. This continued to repeat that we must be proud to be Indian (proud to be Indian) hides in my opinion a sense of inferiority which still lives among the Indians. Prem told me that the first time we had to accommodate in India four years ago, was very nervous for fear of not being up against foreigners, certainly better than him because they are foreign.
And then is repeated too often, "proud to be Indian." One who is so proud not need to remember it every 5 minutes.
But it is right that we face. And it is right this reflection: What have we done in these 60 years? In the newspapers there's a bit 'of everything from "the world's largest democracy" to the atomic bomb, directed by the tribal people to challenge the software industry, lack of potable water to the opening of the Coca Cola factory. In fact in India there is this.
Perhaps they are unaware of all this, the children who sing out of tune anthem of India, with the top of Akanksha (their currency) with the words "Be the change" (the famous words of Gandhi: be the change you wish to see in the world). Or maybe I am much more than me, but do not count knowing and living on the margins of society. And it is they who should devote this day is to them that India should think of the atomic bomb.
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