Dude ! Where is my Country ?

Its Oscars tonight and almost all the media just seems to be so high on testosterone that it only seems to be the news of national importance. I can't help but think why we as a country are so obsessed with the approval from the West? Why is there so much brouhaha when a movie gets nominated for an Oscar? It seems that we are no good if we don’t win one. The Hindi Film Industry is constantly being dubbed as Bollywood, if Aishwarya Rai walks down the red carpet at Cannes its even a bigger news than the other issues which need urgent attention of the nation. Saif and Kareena become Safina following the lines of Brangelina. Its not just the entertainment industry that is effected. Pune is “Detroit” of India, Mumbai is “Manhattan” of India and Allahabad is the “Oxford” of the East, Surat the “Manchester” of India. Why aren’t they just Pune, Mumbai and Allahabad of India? It didn’t take even a day for the media to call the Mumbai terror attacks as “India’s 9/11” and even to this day it is still India’s 26/11. The Satyam scandal is being reported as “India’s Enron” . It seems even our losses are not our own, we are borrowing it from the West . In matters of national security and integrity our leaders seek approval from the West before executing the plans and policies. Its our nation and we don’t need another nation’s approval to guide our policies. We ourselves are playing into the hands of the West.

The world is heading towards globalization and there is no escaping that and we as a nation cannot expect to hold our unique place if we keep undermining ourselves like this. What do we lack? Talent, resources, wealth or heritage? The answer is none of the mentioned. We don’t need to cater the tastes of other nations at the cost of our self respect. Every nation is identified from the uniqueness it has and all my fellow Indians I really don’t need to elaborate on this (just go n read your history books man.. and right from mathematics, medicine, science , philosophy, literature, architecture…you name it and you will find India right in the middle of things). By the time this gets published India might have won an Oscar but the only thing that is goin on in my mind is “We can always win an Oscar, but can they win a Filmafare?”…Analyze This !