The statement reveals a simple but a very powerful truth. It has been a guiding force for me for quite some time now. It is very encouraging when everything around is crumbling and it becomes hard to keep the self belief. It comes handy when everything is going right and it is necessary to keep once composure. This idea helps me treat both the failure and success equally. I may look like a idealistic moron but believe me it does relieve me from the pain of loss,dissappointment and failure. It also has helped being fare during good times but was hard to remember for sure then. Today when the things are not very good and the self belief has taken a beating it has come as a god gift providing some latent energy to keep me going. I may be scared now but this too will not last forever.
What is it being an India n? What is this thing which I call my mother land... my nation. Why am I told to respect it and love it. What does it represents? Is it just a block of land where I was born , a place whose culture and history shaped my thinking , whose laws and forces protected me and whose system allowed me to be able to write this up here the way I want to.. In Discovery of India Nehru explains that a country is the sum total of the aspirations of its inhabitants. A nation is build by all the social, political ,economic and environmental forces which shapes its behavior and belief systems and thus forms the backbone of its culture. Long ago when Man started his journey from the heartland of Africa he was looking for new places to support the growing population. The humans in next thousands of years spread across the nook and corner of this planet and formed the basis of the nation states as we saw them today. This brings us to the question of Why do we need nations in fir...
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