India Through Out The Years

-- Hrishikesh Warrier, IX, FAIPS DPS

Tuesday, July 28, 2020

The country, India, has changed much throughout the years but we Indians more or less have remained the same. Most of us Indians, wear the same traditional clothes when we visit India, respect our culture and heritage and most importantly no matter where we are, we are patriotic in our hearts and are always proud to say that “WE ARE INDIANS!”.

Why?

India has had a rich history until we were colonized by the British, propelling India to a new era of ideologies and patriotism. We value our freedom because we understand its cost since countless people have sacrificed their life so that our generation could live in a better and free future.

India got its independence in the year 1947 and since then we have come a long way in various fields. Many distinguished Indians have received high honours - both in India as well as abroad. Some Indians namely Sir Rabindranath Tagore, Sir Chandrashekhara Venkat Raman, Sir Har Gobind Khorana and Sir Kailash Satyarthi have even gone on to win the Nobel Prize in their areas of expertise. But our wins have not stopped here and it is all of our hopes that many of us Indians will continue to make our country proud in the coming ages.

But India’s tremendous change since their freedom from British rule does not limit just to our wins. British rule in a way, unified Indians who previously battled against each other in order to expand or create an empire; and throughout our history, we find that these Indian empires sooner or later crumbled. But not before they left their mark both in India and its history in the form of architecture that had tremendous cultural impact, notably the Mughal Empire.

sIn a way, they revolutionized architecture and without them many of the structures India is known for would never exist. Be it the Taj Mahal, Jama Masjid or Humayun’s Tomb. We also adopted their other cultural influences including the clothes they wore, the food they ate and their style of architectural designs.

However, times are changing. We are putting money above these cultural and historical monuments of great significance. In many countries in order to build modern complexes and skyscrapers for profits, many countries are demolishing their monuments.

I hope India continues to value these monuments and not succumb to this greed for money in future. Indians must try to realize the value of these monuments and respect our old traditions no matter how modernised we are. We have a culture and it is our identity. Therefore I request to the future generation, please respect those values and heritage that has brought India to the forefront among the developing nations. Our duty towards our country is to respect and value its teachings and respect its rich culture and heritage.

Throughout these decades, India has made progresses in various fields, mainly agriculture. The help that the government is providing to the landless or poor farmers have helped them to at least make a decent amount and support their family, while also producing goods to be consumed both within the country as well as abroad.

India has faced various crisis and wars in this modern era and the way India has overcome these periods with persistence and the will to continue moving forward is something we as Indians must learn and try to implement when we are facing problems at any point of our life.

Sadly, nothing in this world is perfect and this includes India.

India (then and now) lacks unity. In the modern day, riots and crimes are frequent against certain sections of society sometimes for the silliest reasons. Throughout India’s history to the present, we find that lack of unity has been our greatest flaw allowing our enemy or oppressors to take advantage of it and defeat us easily.

There is one and only solution to overcome our flaw and that is if we unite as Indians and treat each other based on our similarities than on our differences. We need to learn that the united we stand the stronger we are. We need to downplay our own beliefs above the fact that no matter who we are or what we have, WE ARE STILL INDIANS!