I was contemplating a ‘Republic Day’ write-up and when started scribbling, while some facts gave me immense delight, some left me with dread dreams. We have celebrated our 65 th Republic Day this 26 th January, but as a commoner, while I feel proud of our country being deliberated as one of the super power in scientific brilliance, shown great augury in terms of economic reforms or achieving commendable improvement in plantation and farming, but my heart got infused with dismay, when I think, we have witnessed the assassination of people like ‘Mr. Davolkar’, who fought the war against superstition and black magic. Our head droops with shame when we see incidents like ‘Labhpur’, when we see killing of female feticide in this 21 st century. Distinctly, our country has been literally dichotomously divided and these two parts have become apparently inextricable. As far as ‘celebrating’ Republic Day is concerned, I think it has become a festival or ‘anoth...
From my viewpoint - Alok Halder