Dear Indians,
I wish all the respected Indians a very Happy Independence on this 62nd Independence Day.
India Before and After the Independence.
With the decision by Britain to withdraw from the Indian subcontinent, the Congress Party and Muslim League agreed in June 1947 to a partition of India along religious lines. Under the provisions of the Indian Independence Act, India and Pakistan were established as independent dominions with predominantly Hindu areas allocated to India and predominantly Muslim areas to Pakistan.
After India's independence on August 15, 1947, India received most of the subcontinent's 562 widely scattered polities, or princely states, as well as the majority of the British provinces, and parts of three of the remaining provinces. Muslim Pakistan received the remainder. Pakistan consisted of a western wing, with the approximate boundaries of modern Pakistan, and an eastern wing, with the boundaries of present-day Bangladesh.
The division of the subcontinent caused tremendous dislocation of populations; inter-communal violence cost more than 1,000,000 lives. Some 3.5 million Hindus and Sikhs moved from Pakistan into India, and about 5 million Muslims migrated from India to Pakistan. In Punjab, where the Sikh community was cut in half, a period of terrible bloodshed followed. Overall, the demographic shift caused an initial bitterness between the two countries that was further intensified by each country's accession of a portion of the princely states.
Adding to the tensions, the issue of the polities Kashmir, Hyderabad, and the small and fragmented state of Junagadh (in present-day Gujarat), remained unsettled at independence. Later, the Muslim ruler of Hindu-majority Junagadh agreed to join Pakistan, but a movement by his people, followed by Indian military action and a plebiscite (people's vote of self-determination), brought the state into India.
The Nizam of Hyderabad, also a Muslim ruler of a Hindu-majority populace, tried to maneuver to gain independence for his very large and populous state, which was, however, surrounded by India.
After more than a year of fruitless negotiations, India sent its army in a police action in September 1948, and Hyderabad became part of India.
The Hindu ruler of Kashmir, whose subjects were 85 percent Muslim, decided to join India. Pakistan, however, questioned his right to do so, and a war broke out between India and Pakistan. A cease-fire was arranged in 1949, with the cease-fire line creating a de facto partition of the region.
The central and eastern areas of the state came under Indian administration as Jammu and Kashmir state, while the northwestern quarter came under Pakistani control as Azad Kashmir and the Northern Areas. Although a UN peacekeeping force was sent in to enforce the cease-fire, the dispute was not resolved. This deadlock has intensified suspicion and antagonism between the two countries.
In 1971, Pakistan was itself subdivided when its eastern section broke away and formed Bangladesh. Border disputes continue to embitter Pakistani-Indian relations, as Pakistan has produced a series of autocratic military rulers while India maintained a parliamentary democracy.
We all sing a song this day. How many of us know the meaning of the song? Let us remember that famous and favorite patriotic song Tomorrow, 15th August 2009.
"Vande Maataram,
SujalaaM SufalaaM, Malayaja ShitalaaM
SasyashyaaMalaM Maataram ||
Shubhrajyotsnaa PulakitayaaminiiM
Pullakusumita Drumadala ShobhiniiM
SuhaasiniiM Sumadhura BhaashhiNiiM
SukhadaaM VaradaaM MaataraM ||
Koti Koti Kantha KalakalaniNada Karaale
Koti Koti Bhujai.rdhR^itakharakaravaale
Abalaa Keno Maa Eto Bale
BahubaladhaariNiiM Namaami TaariNiiM
RipudalavaariNiiM MaataraM ||
Tumi Vidyaa Tumi Dharma
Tumi Hr^idi Tumi Marma
Tvam Hi PraaNaah Shariire
Baahute Tumi Maa Shakti
Hr^idaye Tumi Maa Bhakti
Tomaara I Pratimaa GaDi
Mandire Mandire
TvaM Hi Durgaa DashapraharaNadhaariNii
Kamalaa Kamaladala VihaariNii
VaaNii Vidyaadaayinii Namaami Tvaam
Namaami KamalaaM AmalaaM AtulaaM
SujalaaM SufalaaM MaataraM ||
ShyaamaLaM SaralaaM SusmitaaM BhuushhitaaM
DharaNiiM BharaNiiM MaataraM ||"
Let us read the meaning in English.
Mother, I bow to thee! Rich with thy hurrying streams, bright with orchard gleams, cool with thy winds of delight, dark fields waving Mother of might, Mother free. Glory of moonlight dreams, over thy branches and lordly streams, clad in thy blossoming trees, Mother, giver of ease, laughing low and sweet! Mother I kiss thy feet, Speaker sweet and low! Mother, to thee I bow.
Who hath said thou art weak in thy lands when the sword flesh out in the seventy million hands and seventy million voices roar thy dreadful name from shore to shore? With many strengths who art mighty and stored, To thee I call Mother and Lord! Though who savest, arise and save! To her I cry who ever her foeman drove back from plain and Sea and shook herself free.
Thou art wisdom, thou art law, Thou art heart, our soul, our breath. Though art love divine, the awe in our hearts that conquers death. Thine the strength that nervs the arm, Thine the beauty, thine the charm. Every image made divine in our temples is but thine.
Thou art Durga, Lady and Queen, with her hands that strike and her swords of sheen, Thou art Lakshmi lotus-throned, and the Muse a hundred-toned, pure and perfect without peer, Mother lend thine ear, rich with thy hurrying streams, bright with thy orchard gleams, dark of hue O candid-fair in thy soul, with jewelled hair and thy glorious smile divine, loveliest of all earthly lands, showering wealth from well-stored hands! Mother, mother mine! Mother sweet, I bow to thee, Mother great and free!
JAI HIND!
From India, Madras
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13I wish all the respected Indians a very Happy Independence on this 62nd Independence Day.
India Before and After the Independence.
With the decision by Britain to withdraw from the Indian subcontinent, the Congress Party and Muslim League agreed in June 1947 to a partition of India along religious lines. Under the provisions of the Indian Independence Act, India and Pakistan were established as independent dominions with predominantly Hindu areas allocated to India and predominantly Muslim areas to Pakistan.
After India's independence on August 15, 1947, India received most of the subcontinent's 562 widely scattered polities, or princely states, as well as the majority of the British provinces, and parts of three of the remaining provinces. Muslim Pakistan received the remainder. Pakistan consisted of a western wing, with the approximate boundaries of modern Pakistan, and an eastern wing, with the boundaries of present-day Bangladesh.
The division of the subcontinent caused tremendous dislocation of populations; inter-communal violence cost more than 1,000,000 lives. Some 3.5 million Hindus and Sikhs moved from Pakistan into India, and about 5 million Muslims migrated from India to Pakistan. In Punjab, where the Sikh community was cut in half, a period of terrible bloodshed followed. Overall, the demographic shift caused an initial bitterness between the two countries that was further intensified by each country's accession of a portion of the princely states.
Adding to the tensions, the issue of the polities Kashmir, Hyderabad, and the small and fragmented state of Junagadh (in present-day Gujarat), remained unsettled at independence. Later, the Muslim ruler of Hindu-majority Junagadh agreed to join Pakistan, but a movement by his people, followed by Indian military action and a plebiscite (people's vote of self-determination), brought the state into India.
The Nizam of Hyderabad, also a Muslim ruler of a Hindu-majority populace, tried to maneuver to gain independence for his very large and populous state, which was, however, surrounded by India.
After more than a year of fruitless negotiations, India sent its army in a police action in September 1948, and Hyderabad became part of India.
The Hindu ruler of Kashmir, whose subjects were 85 percent Muslim, decided to join India. Pakistan, however, questioned his right to do so, and a war broke out between India and Pakistan. A cease-fire was arranged in 1949, with the cease-fire line creating a de facto partition of the region.
The central and eastern areas of the state came under Indian administration as Jammu and Kashmir state, while the northwestern quarter came under Pakistani control as Azad Kashmir and the Northern Areas. Although a UN peacekeeping force was sent in to enforce the cease-fire, the dispute was not resolved. This deadlock has intensified suspicion and antagonism between the two countries.
In 1971, Pakistan was itself subdivided when its eastern section broke away and formed Bangladesh. Border disputes continue to embitter Pakistani-Indian relations, as Pakistan has produced a series of autocratic military rulers while India maintained a parliamentary democracy.
We all sing a song this day. How many of us know the meaning of the song? Let us remember that famous and favorite patriotic song Tomorrow, 15th August 2009.
"Vande Maataram,
SujalaaM SufalaaM, Malayaja ShitalaaM
SasyashyaaMalaM Maataram ||
Shubhrajyotsnaa PulakitayaaminiiM
Pullakusumita Drumadala ShobhiniiM
SuhaasiniiM Sumadhura BhaashhiNiiM
SukhadaaM VaradaaM MaataraM ||
Koti Koti Kantha KalakalaniNada Karaale
Koti Koti Bhujai.rdhR^itakharakaravaale
Abalaa Keno Maa Eto Bale
BahubaladhaariNiiM Namaami TaariNiiM
RipudalavaariNiiM MaataraM ||
Tumi Vidyaa Tumi Dharma
Tumi Hr^idi Tumi Marma
Tvam Hi PraaNaah Shariire
Baahute Tumi Maa Shakti
Hr^idaye Tumi Maa Bhakti
Tomaara I Pratimaa GaDi
Mandire Mandire
TvaM Hi Durgaa DashapraharaNadhaariNii
Kamalaa Kamaladala VihaariNii
VaaNii Vidyaadaayinii Namaami Tvaam
Namaami KamalaaM AmalaaM AtulaaM
SujalaaM SufalaaM MaataraM ||
ShyaamaLaM SaralaaM SusmitaaM BhuushhitaaM
DharaNiiM BharaNiiM MaataraM ||"
Let us read the meaning in English.
Mother, I bow to thee! Rich with thy hurrying streams, bright with orchard gleams, cool with thy winds of delight, dark fields waving Mother of might, Mother free. Glory of moonlight dreams, over thy branches and lordly streams, clad in thy blossoming trees, Mother, giver of ease, laughing low and sweet! Mother I kiss thy feet, Speaker sweet and low! Mother, to thee I bow.
Who hath said thou art weak in thy lands when the sword flesh out in the seventy million hands and seventy million voices roar thy dreadful name from shore to shore? With many strengths who art mighty and stored, To thee I call Mother and Lord! Though who savest, arise and save! To her I cry who ever her foeman drove back from plain and Sea and shook herself free.
Thou art wisdom, thou art law, Thou art heart, our soul, our breath. Though art love divine, the awe in our hearts that conquers death. Thine the strength that nervs the arm, Thine the beauty, thine the charm. Every image made divine in our temples is but thine.
Thou art Durga, Lady and Queen, with her hands that strike and her swords of sheen, Thou art Lakshmi lotus-throned, and the Muse a hundred-toned, pure and perfect without peer, Mother lend thine ear, rich with thy hurrying streams, bright with thy orchard gleams, dark of hue O candid-fair in thy soul, with jewelled hair and thy glorious smile divine, loveliest of all earthly lands, showering wealth from well-stored hands! Mother, mother mine! Mother sweet, I bow to thee, Mother great and free!
JAI HIND!
From India, Madras
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Here is our respected FLAG :
The India flag was designed by Pingali Venkayya and was adopted at an ad hoc Constituent Meeting that was held on 22nd July 1947. The flag is made up of three colors placed horizontally and in equal proportion – saffron (on top), white (in the middle), green (bottom). In the center of the white portion is the Ashoka Chakra – a navy blue wheel with 24 spokes.
Where the meaning of the India flag goes, the nation’s first Vice-President, Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, described it’s significance as follows:
“Bhagwa or the saffron colour denotes renunciation or disinterestedness. Our leaders must be indifferent to material gains and dedicate themselves to their work.
The white in the centre is light, the path of truth to guide our conduct. The green shows our relation to (the) soil, our relation to the plant life here, on which all other life depends.
The ‘Ashoka Chakra’ in the centre of the white is the wheel of the law of dharma. Truth or satya, dharma or virtue ought to be the controlling principle of those who work under this flag. Again, the wheel denotes motion. There is death in stagnation. There is life in movement. India should no more resist change, it must move and go forward. The wheel represents the dynamism of a peaceful change."
Even though this is considered as one of the official descriptions of the flag; according to popular understanding saffron denotes spirituality, white is for peace, green is for abundance and the wheel represents justice. According to Independent India’s first Prime Minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, the flag not only represents freedom of the nation; but also freedom of each and every citizen of the country.
To commemorate the tireless efforts of the nation’s freedom fighter, each year citizens across the nation gather together to hoist the flag and salute to it as they sing the National Anthem. 15th August (Independence Day) and 26th January (Republic Day), are very important dates marked on every Indian nationals calendar.
From India, Madras
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The India flag was designed by Pingali Venkayya and was adopted at an ad hoc Constituent Meeting that was held on 22nd July 1947. The flag is made up of three colors placed horizontally and in equal proportion – saffron (on top), white (in the middle), green (bottom). In the center of the white portion is the Ashoka Chakra – a navy blue wheel with 24 spokes.
Where the meaning of the India flag goes, the nation’s first Vice-President, Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, described it’s significance as follows:
“Bhagwa or the saffron colour denotes renunciation or disinterestedness. Our leaders must be indifferent to material gains and dedicate themselves to their work.
The white in the centre is light, the path of truth to guide our conduct. The green shows our relation to (the) soil, our relation to the plant life here, on which all other life depends.
The ‘Ashoka Chakra’ in the centre of the white is the wheel of the law of dharma. Truth or satya, dharma or virtue ought to be the controlling principle of those who work under this flag. Again, the wheel denotes motion. There is death in stagnation. There is life in movement. India should no more resist change, it must move and go forward. The wheel represents the dynamism of a peaceful change."
Even though this is considered as one of the official descriptions of the flag; according to popular understanding saffron denotes spirituality, white is for peace, green is for abundance and the wheel represents justice. According to Independent India’s first Prime Minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, the flag not only represents freedom of the nation; but also freedom of each and every citizen of the country.
To commemorate the tireless efforts of the nation’s freedom fighter, each year citizens across the nation gather together to hoist the flag and salute to it as they sing the National Anthem. 15th August (Independence Day) and 26th January (Republic Day), are very important dates marked on every Indian nationals calendar.
From India, Madras
Acknowledge(0)Amend(0)Thousands laid down their lives... so that our country is breathing freedom this day!!
Let us not forget their sacrifices!!
I bow my head in salute to all those great humans!!
I salute India... Jai Hind!!
Happy Independence Day to all!!
Let us pledge to take along the path of prosperity of our Mother India!!
Be proud you are an Indian!!
From India, Madras
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