India – A country failing to become a Nation
“On the stroke of mid night hour, when the world sleeps, India will awake to light and freedom .” These words by Pandit Jawahar Lala Nehru, declared the coming of India. An idea grander than anything the world had seen came into being. A nation which spoke several languages, consisted various ethnic beliefs, practiced all possible religions and yet was defined by one Idea, an idea of India, was born. A nation which had always been a mystery, not just to those who heard stories about her but also to those who inhabited her. It was the first time in 1947 when the huge geography of the subcontinent became a single territory commanded by a state. Never before in the history of the Indian subcontinent, existed a single political authority that was bestowed with the power to take decisions pertaining to the economic as well as social wellbeing of its people. Finally India became one. Finally it became a free nation. Or did it? The history of India, like in any other country, is the stor