Dear People of Egypt,
Freedom doesn’t come cheap. If ever it does it loses the respect it deserves. It is needed to be fought for again and again. We know this because we are a vestige of ‘free’ generation of the great Indian democracy. A generation which is deemed free but is slave to the czars of corruption and political bureaucracy.
We applaud the civil disobedience movement that you started. Your struggle didn’t stir the government in your country only but also helped other dormant minds wake up to the larger meaning of liberty. It made people comprehend things beyond the democratic fallacies and it made regimes around the world realize the power of people.
Time demands that we take a cue from your rebellion and fight for what rightfully is ours. The true meaning of freedom and democracy can only be realized when elements like corruption, constitutional inequality and economic disparity can be disarmed.
It’s tough but freedom is worth every bit of the fight we put.
Long live the revolution,
The People of India
[Appeared in HT Edge on February 14, 2011]
(Unfortunately under wrong credits which was later rectified)
Nice one :)
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