Sunday, August 17, 2008

Mother India

I am a mother. A mother who have seen many civilizations, many cultures, many languages, many stories , many epics , many religions blooming in my own garden.I don't care about any Mahatma Gandhi or any Bhagat Singh, they were just another kids, my kids.How can a mother compare her two kids ? How can a mother compare any of her kid with any of her other kid ? No matter if one of my kid is in Mercedes and the other sleeping on footpaths, No matter if one is a criminal and other a social servant. I know no laws, i know no despair, no rules and no limits to love my kids. All are same for me.

I am a mother. A mother who have seen many wars, many deaths, many tears and blood rivers flowing over my body. After every death the only thing that is close to them is me, their own mother holding them in her arms. They start up with me and then mix in me. I am a mother who is same with everyone, if i give them hot airs in day time then i am the only one who gives them cold temperatures at nights. So why do my kids die with starvation, climatic conditions, floods, unavailability of water, earthquakes ? Now i put up a question : Which mother won't love to see her kids fighting the problems ? I have always cleared all the shit and mess they have done over me since years with all my smiles.

I am a mother. A mother who takes crimes of her kids on her, every time my kids are cursed, i am cursed with them. If some of my children are corrupt, i am the one who is to be blamed about it in spite of the fact that i have given birth to other kids who have brought pride to the whole humanity. My kids never fall back and if they do fall then it means the competition is still ON and the outcome will always come out in the favor of my kids. I expect too many things from my kids so i give too much to them in form of food. I take pains to give them vegetation. I take the pains to give them fresh drinking water.

But it hurts too much when my own kids blame me for everything. It hurts when i am being cursed by my own kids. I never stop my kids from going to foreign place, but it hurts when they forget me after going there. It hurts when my own kids fights over small things and then kill their mother more by making fences all around me. Making Lines of Controls , making cities from a land , making states from cities , making countries from states. They say we all are a single family , then why so many homes inside ? They say we are sisters and brothers then why fights here. They say we know only one religion and thats humanism then why castism here. They say we all are in same level then why one of my kid is in Car and other on road, walking barefooted. Why one kid ditches some other and say our religions don't match ? Why one of my kids having high percentage gets no place in Institutes and a less qualified kid gets a place in the same institute with money and quota. Why i can see crimes all over ? Why i can see my kids selling themselves to plant bombs to kill their own families ? Why i can see my own family members raping my own girls ?

God must have died only once but being a mother i die everyday. I die everyday with newspaper touching me with pages full of same news of RAPES , KILLINGS , BLASTS , CORRUPTIONS. I die when my kids say a particular state belongs only to a particular caste or religion. I die when they believe Brahmins are high class and others are not. Have i ever given different rice to a Brahmin and other caste ? Have i ever given Water only to Brahmins and not other classes ? Have i ever been partial towards a particular caste or religion. I give them same calamities, same food, same care then why my kids are not together ? I am a mother whose own kids have killed, hurt and raped their mother many times. And yet many more times by asking me question "Why is India such a corrupt country ?" "What have our country given us ?"

I am a mother. A mother who always has high expectations from my kids. My expectations are never to get any money from them, never to get a medal from them , never to get sympathy or never to see my pics all over in my birthdays and all. I have only expected them to be good to their family members, their brothers, their friends. I don't force you all to stand for National Anthem, and never gonna force you all to respect me for a week by keeping my pics as their display pics or changing captions, putting flags outside your house, never show your love for me.Just fulfill your duties by paying taxes. Stop crimes and try to do some constructive work and i promise you, i shall give you food and shelter. Stop cursing your environment, coz each and every of my child is capable of changing the whole world with their power of standing alone no matter whether anyone is with you or not, and to stand till the end no matter the end comes before the overcomes. Don't show off that you all love me, coz sooner or later you all will start loving me anyhow. Try to walk with me and i will surely walk with you. No need to tell me we love you mom but do stand when you see someone raping me again.

I am mother.And i am proud of all my kids no matter whether they are proud of me or not.I am MOTHER INDIA.