India, belongs to Nehru

Happy Independence Day, all my brothers and sisters of India, May god bless us to be independent, in our thoughts and deeds.

In fact, India, belongs to Nehru, as he represents the very idea of India, every struggle that formed India, and so on...

We live in an India, discovered by Nehru. We love the idea of India discovered by Nehru, that connects past with future, that unites many to one, that represents peace above all. 

If thoughts represented by Nehru was not there, instead of Indian Union, we would have been a collection of independent nations, just like middle east or Europe. Nehru could pave the basic skeleton of unity not only by his writings, but also by his actions. 

Nehru lived in a time when capital based systems and commune based systems were emerging and establishing. He could weigh the highs and lows of both and carefully took a middle path. We could see that he picked only one jargon "socialism" from the spectrum, in his drive for a welfare state. He carefully, nurtured a non-alignment stand that was a ray of hope among furious camps.

He might have realized the pain of exploitation, the capital based system brings in, he might have realized the trauma it introduces via false hopes and alienation. On the other hand he, as well thought by Gandhiji, recognized the commune based proposals are reactive in nature. Time had proven him, all the communist evangelist states were exposed as either ultra nation states or autocratic regimes. As a scholar of all times and statesman of every nature, he thoughtfully placed us in a safe path. 

Let us remember, some of his quotes:

• Without peace, all other dreams vanish and are reduced to ashes
• You don't change the course of history by turning the faces of portraits to the wall
• It is the habit of every aggressor nation to claim that it is acting on the defensive.

Bhagat Sing recognized him as the "revolutionary", as he was quoted saying when Nehru returned after visiting him in jail. Gandhiji said that Nehru will speak his words after independence. Nehru was a leader of devine choice, bestowed upon us for nation building, in every angle.

.. but, how far we are successful in upholding his idea, our India ? Every one of us have to review and retrospect.