AZADI BACHAO - STOP THE DRAMA

THE IRONY OF BEING AZAD
Recently, I came across statements and leaflets printed and distributed by some so called Azadi Bachao Andolan office & Jan Sangharsh samiti.
I had heard of -- Bijlee bachao… paisa bachao….. pani bachao…Aloo bachao…Baingan bachao……
But never heard of AZADI bachao! What a Pity that today our Azadi has been classified as a commodity by some who claim to be the warriors of Azadi in our country.
One wonders how such people can Bachao Azadi when they do not even understand the meaning of THE WORD AZADI .
Our Azadi actually becomes very unsafe if such PEOPLE are permitted to become the self appointed protectors of Azadi.
It is MY Azadi which gives me strength to raise my voice against such self proclaimed protectors of MY Azadi.
Azadi is not a commodity ….it is system….it is an experience……it is a feeling
Azadi is to be used and is not a safe vault item.
My Azadi is my Fundamental Rights which Azad Hindustan gives me and this is for what Mahatma Gandhi, Bhagat Singh, Netaji Bose and all the freedom fighters fought for and attained for our countrymen.
My freedom of speech, my right to vote……. my freedom of religion etc. etc. is my Azadi.
It is in A WAY good that those who struggled for our Azadi and are not around today to see the revised DISTORTED definition of Azadi .
It is good that they are not around to see how fragile the Azadi is projected today by the so called Azadi Bachao Andolankaris if it can be threatened by products like Pepsi & Coke & Colgate & Pizza hut & Nestle & BY EVERY THING WHICH IS MULTINATIONAL.
In one of the leaflets it was mentioned that these Andolankaris want to free India from Western Culture. Interesting!
In today’s time there is no eastern culture and no western culture. What one follows is one’s culture. One follows what makes him happy & comfortable & is acceptable in the society where he wants HIM-SELF to be accepted.
Incidentally ---
is it in our Indian Culture to mislead people?
Is it in our culture to eat our meals sitting on the floor only?
Is it in our culture to force our likes & dislikes on others?
Will we become more cultured if we stop wearing Jeans pant/western dress?
Will it make us more cultured if we do away with internationally acclaimed Products / Technologies /Advancements?
Will eating Pizza make us Uncultured? While eating Roti Dal makes us more cultured?
It is not what we eat or drink or wear which makes us cultured.
It is the values which we give to our children that will ensure a CULTURED India.
How can we all in India continue to become silent spectators when a few people with personal political desires try to change the definition of a SACRED word like ANDOLAN ?
An ANDOLAN directed against a specific product or a specific Brand or a specific company is actually putting the word ANDOLAN to shame.
ANDOLAN is a crusade against a concept, a Philosophy or a system.
Mahatma Gandhi started the Swaraj Andolan with a clear concept
---- India for Indians to be ruled by Indians ----
This was an Andolan against the foreign oppressor who were British at that time. Had they been French or German it would have been an Andolan against them since the Andolan was not against the British but against the Foreign Ruler.
Andolan as dipicted by the Azadi Bachao Andolankaris today looks like they are participating in Brand wars in a competitive Commercial Market.
Statements like don’t use Colgate toothpaste instead use Lal Dant Manjan !
Is our Azadi really threatened by Colgate Toothpaste? Or are these people working as sales agents of some other product of some other company?
Why do we forget that we still have to attain Azadi from Berojgari (unemployement), we still have to come out of the clutches of Garibi (poverty), All Children in our country still have to attain Shiksha (education) and above all my country-men have still to learn to react to such selfish and misleading Andolankaris.
It is the prime duty of all educated Indians to ensure that our school Children and the not so educated are not mislead and used by these so called Andolankaris to attain political mileage.
Andolankaris please let peace prevail here; please don’t try to take us for a ride since no ride is free. It costs the country time and money when the Police and administrative machinery is diverted from any other work (surely more progressive).
Don’t force the like minded Hindustanis of this already Azad country to pick up an ANDOLAN against the out dated techniques & theories adopted by such persons to become ‘A some one’ in Indian Netagari scenario.