A TRULY DOMINATED NATION - INDIA

Before i commence my article , i want my readers to read something. It is a case study and proposal given by Lord Macaulay who came to India to find loop holes in our unity and further report back to his government guiding them how to take their first step to conquer the then golden bird-India.

             Incensed? Shocked? Intrigued?When i read it for the first time, I wasn't intrigued or shocked. I got provoked, provoked to think that we are not really independent yet. The first thought that came to my mind was Gandhi's mantra "SWADESHI". The man sacrificed his entire life trying to inculcate a sense of pride for our own Swadeshi goods, our culture and our heritage. Unfortunately, his sacrifice went in vain.
             The Britishers succeeded. They just shifted their throne back to their kingdom, but they still rule us. They succeeded in subjugating us. No, they did not coerce us to buy their products or to admire them, they simply made us consider ourselves, our culture and our goods inferior. By doing this they won our lifelong submissiveness to their culture.              
   We complaint of racism at one hand and apply fair and lovely with another. We consider Loreal better than Godrej, Colgate better than Veeko-bajradanti and Denim better than Khaki.We tell our children to read Harry Potter but not Panchtantra or Vedas.These Vedas are more beneficial , its these Vedas that taught the world to do Suryanamaskar , now after hundreds of years we understand the importance of vitamin D.We may not be cleaning their toilets any more but we are still working as slaves in Call Centers and MNC's for them.
English is the official language.In schools children are told to communicate in it, In offices presentations are given in it. It has seeped down and strengthened its roots so much so that people now refer to dictionaries to translate the word "translator" in Hindi. You don't know either? Well its "अनुवादक" . Let me ask something- alphabets in English are 26 , how many are they in Hindi? Do you even remember क ख ग घ ?
                   We know whats opera or whats F-sharp but we don't know, rather don't want to know, what are Ragas.We are blithely unaware of what are we doing to our own country, ourselves and our coming generations.
              Wake up from your slumber before its too late.Our turmeric and Bhang have already being patented by the west and now the debate is on for "YOGA". Wake up now lest you would be asked to pay import duty for "your own" national goods.     No matter how high a tree grows or how many fruits are on it, once its cut from its roots- It DIES.

       So as Lord Macaulay wanted -INDIA IS A TRULY DOMINATED NATION