Why a Nation?
Vijayakrishna
For a change, let me not troll. Maybe I still have that person in me who is infamous for being a *different person* and *serious*
I am normally, a kind of person who disregards most of the established things which drive the adrenalin.
The thing called NATION is one of such aspects. Sure, I will not stand any insult to India but I would not stand the same with any country, because it’s associated with our pride, my pride, the pride that comes from the feeling that we own it.
At the same time, I disregard it to own entire earth. I am a part of the world. India is just an illusion I created for myself on paper..
Why this difference? May be because my understanding of age old Indian principles told me that all human created barriers, makes no difference for the rest of nature, except humans and these divisions will, fade with time.
Then again, why are you willing to defend it then? Isn’t it same according to you if it is called India or something else?
Hmm, yes, it makes no difference; it makes no difference until it comes down to the efforts and aspirations of people who worked for the land that bears me. May be I am indirectly respecting my predecessors and their heritage rather than the *land mass*.
Here I have to quote a sentence written by one of the great Telugu poets, Gurajada Appa Rao in his
patriotic song దేశమును ప్రేమించుమన్నా(Desamunu Preminchumanna (Love the Nation))
దేశమంటే మట్టి కాదోయి, దేశమంటే మనుషులోయి
(A country is not its soil but its people)
Arguably one of the best national patriotic songs one can ever read. Infact, I never came across a song which can be used by any nation except this. (more at end of the article if you are interested)
Yes, may it’s the reason. Maybe this influence made me fall in love with reading people and learning about new cultures. Maybe I love this land less than this Romanian(I am told so) does!
We do not need to die for our nation, give up all our wealth or even do what the old man, posted at end of article does. Infact we need to live, we just need to realise, if we don’t act for it, no one else will.
Let us put our egos aside, differences to rest, let us show what we are so famous for, unity in diversity. It is what our people gave us, let us not let it down for our own sake.
Regards.
You can find original form of దేశమును ప్రేమించుమన్నా here and translated Desamunu Preminchumanna here, the best translation I could get of it.
I am not going to request you to shout or vote, if you feel this article is worth it, kindly do it by yourself, not for me.
🙂
Comments
Surprisingly I did not have a CSRF attack for this article, may be sincere efforts do lead to surprising results 😉
Such a wonderful article need a long answer, beside this short one:
Avidya - अविद्या
beautiful!!! i feel in myself more indian blood than hungarian... i wanna be rl indian! give me ur blood!
vampire 😛
A masterpiece of literature.
High above the standards of this game!
Respect!! o7
Hmmmmmm .. it is an age old paradox. is the nation more important than the people? and so many other things like that. Anyway nicely written and you have expressed your feelings well. o7
In france they speak french, in germany german, in russia russian, in china chinese etc. its only in India where they speak so many languages and still speak in one tongue. Anektha mein ektha, hind ki visheshtha.
isliye france,germany,russia,china itne aage progress kar gaye . internal strength aur peace hain.
Aur hume border se jyaada internal khatra hain. kahi par mulle kasai to kahi par naksal .
ek language hogi tabhi ek vichaar hoge aur tabhi peace hogi. jab tak religion politics chalti rahegi desh ka kuch nahi hoga.
o7
o7 the people make the nation indeed!
nice article - voted
nice nice
Good article. A community is far more precious than a fictional entity. The nation states only true strength is it's power to make individuals identify themselves with it, but everyone has a different perception of what it means to be that nationality.
True indeed. Hitler had perception to make his country get identified as superior . On other hand Stalin had another perception to make his thoughts identified to the world through Soviet community. Japanese individuals in power had ambiguous dreams to dominate (not for Japan but themselves) .
Its ironical that USA who frames them differently had another perception when they dropped atom bombs on Japan (it was neither to defeat Japan or to win the war but to teach them not to finger their respect 😃)
Its a nice and cute article...
hmmmm
A country in neither by its citizens (Take RL India as example ) or by its soil (Take RL Pakistan as example)
A country is for its patriots who want their country to have superior science and/or power . A country survives and thrives when all its patriots have one common cause - to have a distinct identification by its language/culture/tradition/science.
patriots are people 😑 akal use karo kuch baar 😛
people mein wo bhi aate hain jo India Gate ke paas ice-cream khaakar wohi wrapper fek de.
Usme wo bhi aate hain jo jantar mantar mein paan ka gutka thukte ho.
Isliye mein nahi maanta ki India ek country hain. Hamari koi identification nahi hain