SHAPING THE FUTURE

THE RECONSTRUCTION OF RAM MANDIR AT AYODHYA, RECLAIMING OF KASHMIR, AATMANIRBHAR BHARAT CAMPAIGN EXEMPLIFY THE REVIVAL OF SWA CONSCIOUSNESS. ONCE AGAIN WE HAVE TO EMBRACE SWADESHI, SWADHARMA AND SWABHASHA TO LEAD OUR COUNTRY TO GREATNESS

-  J NANDAKUMAR

Amrit Mahotsav offers us an opportunity to introspect and take stock of our journey so far—the areas we succeeded and the areas where we faltered. In our journey of 75 years since 1947, have we lived up to the ideals cherished by our forefathers? As we aspire to rebuild a society confident in itself, its heritage, and its culture, it is important for us to revisit the whole idea of the Bharatiya freedom movement from the perspective of Swa, and how we can use those ideals to build our future and reclaim our civilizational grandeur.

After we got the Independence, there has been a concerted attempt to drift away from the path of swa which had shaped our freedom movement. Political and economic exploitation or religious conversion, and, most important of all, the partition of Bharat were all attempts by the colonial rulers albeit organized attempts to dilute the idea of Swa.

This 75th Independence Day celebration is a great opportunity for all of us to revisit, refine and reinvent our lost ‘collective truth’ about the whole narrative of freedom struggle, to explore and acknowledge the unsung heroes of the freedom struggle as well as to change our perspectives to analyze the unfolding truths about our past and collective identity.

British ruled Bharat for about two hundred years. Bharat got freedom from the British Raj on August 15, 1947. The exploitation of the Bharatiya people and the Bharatiya economy by the British made Bharatiyas realize the need for a united effort to drive the British out of Bharat.