August 15. The day is finally here, and over. But thus begins formally the year-long series of a flurry of programmes leading up to the next year, the actual seventy-fifth year of the Indian Independence.
This year, as usual, but in a more intensive measure, were the dollops of public patriotism. Obvious, expected and hence normal in a way because everybody ( in caps and bolded) is aware of the historic event next year. In other words, 2022 is right now so much more seminal to India that the "dis-ease" 2020 pales in comparison.
Hence the need to (re)imagine the India that we want henceforth. Let us together pray for a country that can overcome the problems of the post-LPG world released by the TNC's. Let us Hope for a humane India that cares for mankind, the flora and the fauna. In a way, this is the prayer that Sant Dnyaneshwar known as Mauli (the Aai as kindness personified),fervently presented at the end of hus treatise that re(de)fined a way of life.
That kind of prayer for a total defeat of the wicked and the glory of the ethical is what Aai-Papa envisioned for us. In this context,let me sign off with a mention that if the Indian iconography for the nation is mother ( a metaphor much explored, even critically), the Vaterland is how the German language thinks of one's own native country. In other words, in the very imag(e)/(in)ing of the notion of the nation is inculcated the parental paradigm!
Pratima@ "now that it is "that" date of the year, August 15, of the year/to be alive in India", with apologies to Robert Browning
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