India is celebrating 55^th Republic day today. What’s the significance of this day? What’s the point of celebrating this day?

When we got independence everyone thought that this would be the end of the misery and the golden age would start then and there. I know everyone knows what the answer is?

55 years later after having Jawharlal Nehru’s socialism experiment gone really bad, Gandhi’s secularism mutated nto a bad monster, corruption rampant, what do we have to celebrate? A few missiles? A second hand nuclear submarine? A lot of grandstanding is all what we have to show to the Bhutan’s king. I am sorry, I am bitter.

Missiles being paraded on Rajpath

In the Tsunami relief camps, the people of lower castes were shunted out. In Satara, women and children were trampled. The celebration was cut short to show respect to the Tsunami victims. I shouldn’t say we should stop living just because we had a big tragedy. I have problem when there is pomp, when there is a need for action. What’s the need for the military power? Why are we devoting more than 10% of our GDP on military? Who are we scaring? Not China, not USA, we are scaring that rat of a country Pakistan, the country, which exists on the basis of hatred towards India. Hope they see light soon. This hatred is not a very good business plan. Hatred has never been a good idea to invest in.

Imagine for second if we had universal education and universal health care, everyone would treat us a developed country. We would have enormous respect, which we are trying to buy by buying and building bigger missiles and ships. Whom are we playing this ‘mine is bigger than yours’ game? Am I talking like a commie? If I am, I am sorry, all I want is reduction in infant mortality and every kid to get an education.

Don’t ask me what I am contributing by ranting? If you don’t know, that’s all I do, rant!

What would have been the result if we had invested that 10% in education, in health care? Do we have universal health care in India? Nope! Not even close. What we have these Government hospitals which are understaffed, not monitored and not even functioning. The poor people in turn depend on quacks and homeopathic ‘doctors’. Spending on missiles and war planes is good but I guess Government should also worry about its citizen’s health.

As I always say, we never learn, we never improve, and truly strange people are we!