Freedom is measured in so many ways. It may mean having the ability to come and go as you please with no accountability to another, or to make your own decisions about what you want. Small steps, such as a wheelchair ramp, or larger steps like leaving a former safe haven and striking out for the unknown, all represent different types of freedom, as does taking the liberty to speak your mind and think your thoughts without fear of repercussion. So many times, though, freedom gets confused with escaping or running away. True freedom comes from having a sense of running toward something, not from something.Burdens of our past and present lives can keep us from feeling truly free. We all carry reminders of hated restrictions imposed on us as children by seemingly unfeeling adults, convinced that they had forgotten completely what it was like to be young. Don’t we all long for the carefree days of youth, only to be followed quickly by the remembrance of our anxiousness to grow up? Growing up in an abusive or otherwise unloving environment can keep us from allowing ourselves to become emotionally available to others, locking us in a self-made prison. Only the awareness of the causes of our pain can begin to cleanse us of our reluctance to open ourselves to others and to take steps to create the lifestyle we desire.
Come to bigger perspective.Now talk about world's greatest population containing country's freedom.Our India's freedom.
What's this all about??
Why are we so proud of being called humans, and why do we claim our rationality at a time when we're more animals than most of the species...
Freedom of speech is considered a fundamental right in my country, India. But what if my views are against any religion?? Then I am booked for hurting the religious sentiments of the disciples of that religion. That means that I am booked for exercising one of my rights. Then why was I given the right in the first place?
This country is a secular country so I can follow any religion that I want. What if one of my religious beliefs are totally against some other religion?? What I exactly want to say is that may be some practices of my religion may potray some other practice of some other religion in bad sense. so will i be allowed to practice it?? If yes then as I have seen during all these years is that there will be clashes all over between the disciples of both the religions and at the end I'll be made to stop the practice. But if I consider some practice by some other established religion as hurting my new religion's feelings then will the practice by the other religion be stopped?? No. I'll have to keep my mouth shut only because the other religion is older and have more number of followers. If the number of followers is the deciding factor then how is this country secular?? Many minorities suffer like this.
So it is very clear that there is no room for rational thinking in this country and one has to keep his mouth shut and should not try to speak his mind ad if it hurts the mahority then either hw becomes victim of some militant group or the politicians.
I'll not be able to give solutions to the problems but will atleast start a quest to find them. And will urge people to stop hating each other on different grounds such as caste, creed, sex, religion etc. but try to find better ways of living and progressing together.
three years befores I have been listening about the protests that are going against the release of the movie, Da Vinci Code. It is being said that the movie potrays christ in wrong sense and should not be released.
I thought both ways.
Had the movie potrayed any God of the established religions in India in bad sense, would our religious leaders allowed it to release?? There would've been big protests and bandhs. But as christians are in minority, our country doesn't care much.(Here I am talking only about India) And then we say that it is a secular country.
Thinking in another way, the movie is a work of fiction and no body exactly knows the truth. If Christians feel that Da Vinci Code is against Bible the isn't Bible against Da Vinci Code and shouldn't it also contain a warning that it is a pure work of fiction as it is very clear thst Bible was written by Men??
I am not supporting any side here as both have there own reasons, but personally i'm really looking forward to the movie as enjoyed the book a lot and will surely watch it first day first show.
There was also a big hue and cry against the paintings of M.F. Hussien. It was said that he disrespected India by painting Bharat Mata nude. Will someone ask these people that how do they think that India wears clothes.
We are sent into the world naked, that all the variations of the blood might be made visible. However trite, I cannot avoid quoting here the lines of the most deep-thinking and philosophical of our poets:
We understood
Her by her sight: her pure and eloquent blood
Spoke in her cheeks, and so distinctly wrought,
That one might almost say her body thought.
Its a work of art and please take it as that.
From all this it is very clear that India still has a long way to go to become a place where a person is allowed to think logically and speak his mind.
A nation's wealth doesn't lie in its Banks. It exists in its public schools...
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