We Celebrate Independence Day But Are We Truly Free?
Now that we have completed 71 years of independence, I am sure it makes each one of us proud to be a citizen of a democratic country like India. India is the largest democracy in the world. The Constitution of India gives its citizens six rights known as the Fundamental Rights. We have the: RIGHT TO FREEDOM RIGHT TO EDUCATION AND CULTURE RIGHT AGAINST EXPLOITATION RIGHT TO EQUALITY RIGHT TO FREEDOM OF RELIGION RIGHT TO CONSTITUTIONAL REMEDIES We have the rights and we do exercise them in the most appropriate way, but are we truly free? We did get freedom on 15 August 1947 from the British Rule but now we have to get freedom from a whole lot of social evils and problems that have their stronghold in India. What I feel is that India will become independent when we are free from corruption which has to be wiped off from the grass root level. In whichever sector we go, starting from the clerk level to the higher officials, everyone is corrupt. They openl