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I happened to come across one of my friends’(I feel ashamed to call them this) status message which read, ‘Indian government…I hate them’. It doesn’t strike like a very controversial or a very provoking statement. Does it? Well to me, it does. Whatever are the flaws, whatever are the drawbacks of this country, it is MY COUNTRY and I will shower unconditional love and devotion to it.

For every person who has such a point of view or such a complaint, I have only one question…’what have you done for the country?’ Most of these complaining wretches haven’t cast their vote even once in their rotten existence. What gives you the right to condemn and criticise the country thus? You don’t want to be a part of the process to select a government but when someone else does it for you, you have the audacity to abuse them? To criticise them? To condemn them?

Every tom, dick and harry is buying/selling without paying the right taxes. But when the country’s infrastructure grows slowly, ‘yeh India hain…yahan aise hi hota hain’. Yahan aise hota hain, because of people like you. People like you who do not want to contribute to the growth of the country. But sure as hell have a snide comment about the slow growth of the country. Is the government supposed to grow money out of thin air for the various ‘infrastructural growths’ that you want to see in India?

Let’s get one thing straight; you don’t become an Indian just by being born in this country. You have to earn it. Ask not what the country has done for you, ask instead what have you done for the country? Jai Hind!!!