ravi says

Right now some parts of the country is battling the floods, militants threat,naxalism, agrigarian crisis and rising prices, but this is not the issues are great politicians are discussing. They have some other agenda of their own, nothing to do with the country and nothing to the development. Currently one party of our great democratic country is toying with the idea of making VANDE MATRAM compulsory in the schools.

There is a show on the STAR NEWS (which I regard as the worst news channel, bcos it will show everything other than the news. It’s a good entertainment channel though) called POL KHOL, anchored by the Shekhar Suman and co-hosted by a monkey called BANDRU. The show is dedicated to finding the demerits of basically our politician. The topic of the last show was VANDE MATRAM.

In the show, the reporters asked some of the minister of the states and centers of the particular political party what they know about the Vande Matram. The show was really a embarrassment for the country and particularly for the party which is raising the issue of making it compulsory in the schools. 90% of the ministers does not know the first two lines of the song and don’t think of the poet’s name also. Except the correct poet name everything came out of their mouth. I wonder they ever chanted the JANA MANA GANA or VANDE MATRAM in the schools. But now they feel that the young children should know.

Is this not the time that even they should know and try to remember it, at least if they want to raise issues like such. If they can’t do this then please try to focus on the issues which requires their immediate attention and some time in the parliament for which the general public pays heavily from his pocket. There is nothing wrong in the making such a sacred song, which contributed so much to our freedom struggle compulsory in the schools, but before taking this steps it should be made compulsory in the parliament and the state assemblies. Our dear politicians should also know about the freedom struggle and get inspired by the song.

# posted by Ravi Shekhar : 9:07 PM