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Today on 26th January we
had celebrated 66th republic day of our beloved nation. A day
mostly regarded as national holiday and when it falls on a weekend, it’s a
heart break for many of us as we lose a vacation. This time it was a party time because it fell on Monday and provides us the luxury of extended weekend. As we all know this day our
constitution came into force and it not only granted our rights but also pledged
to protect them in every circumstance.
As per definition republic means ” a state in which supreme power is held by
the people and their elected representatives”
but to understand this term to we need to travel in time, starting
from 320 BC when a roman philosopher Socrates
coined this term while discussing about various forms of justice with
his favorite student Plato .Later on Plato compiled his own thoughts and teachings
from Socrates in his famous book “The Republic” which is still regarded as one
of the greatest books in the history of human civilization till date.
In medieval period when renaissance
was its peak which started as a cultural movement but impacted the political
and economic system all across the western world. People were outraged by their
sufferings and insensitivity of their rulers towards them, which led to various
revolutions in Europe and it, resulted establishing various republican nations
in the world. This transformation was well quoted by a French poet Victor Hugo
in his lines “No power can stop an idea whose
time has come”. That time it was the idea of equality, liberty and freedom dominated the world, and I pray it should always remain the dominant one.
Here in India people were still
leaving under the rule of monarchs later on the we were under a colonial rule.
In 1857 people made an attempt to snatch the power from the British in a hope
to revive there rights but failed. Since 1857 numerous revolutionaries shred
there conventional life and step into a path of struggle so that they can enlighten
the life of Indians. Once Bhagat Singh said “One
individual may die for an idea; but that idea will, after his death, incarnate
itself in a thousand lives. That is how the wheel of evolution moves on and the
ideas and dreams of one nation are bequeathed to the next”. This liberty by
virtue of which we live in a so comfortable and peaceful life had come at a
great cost. Many have died protecting or nourishing this idea and this date
also this liberty is preserved by those who march past on Raj-path and salute
this great nation in an absolute sublimity. In my opinion it’s our necessity
not only preserve this freedom and liberty but also fix the loopholes in it which
are somehow hampering our own prosperity. I think it is the only to pay real homage
to all those pure spirits who presented us this way of life in which “We the
people” have a stake in decision.
We should celebrate this day more actively than
our birthdays since on our birthday's we were just born, but on this day we were
acknowledged with all freedoms and rights. This day not only guarantees the
rights of millions today but also to the unborn millions yet to come.
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