66 years of a declining nation's tryst with independence

Today having lived through half the period of India's journey post freedom, I don't know whether to say "happy independence day" or "I wish it was a happy day". Today society has moved from one that stood together for the welfare of others to one that is lost in the pursuit of self gratification. A society that stood against injustice to a society where movements against corruption and violence die in a whimper. Where people, on independence day, are watching a movie that features an actor who in real life is serving a jail term for stocking arms blatantly promoting violence as a means of justice. A society where schools are teaching children that money can buy a lot. Where kids no longer have their innocence even at the age of 2. A society that is forgetting the meaning of independence. A society where the pride of a nation is only skin deep.

Today I hope this is a phase in the life of a young India, a phase that will pass soon. Hope for happier days post independence.