A COUNTRY OF COUNTLESS COWARDS BARRING THE SUBLIME SONS OF THE SOIL

A COUNTRY OF COUNTLESS COWARDS BARRING THE SUBLIME SONS OF THE SOIL

We are a dead country of cowards in the main -- barring a few communities like the Sikhs and the Gurkhas -- breathing free by the blood of the martyrs spilled regularly to defend our uncared-for freedom.

Our youth ought to be more valorous and not given to indolent daydreaming about self-satisfaction, self-enjoyment and self-glory.

It is a shame that so many cowards people this great country, men and women fired only by material aspirations and not by the sublime ideals of service and sacrifice.

To behold such cowardice everywhere is an eyesore. However, if my words fire up the valorous side of people, I shall consider my work as a writer well done to an extent.

Myself am past my prime to be able to serve our motherland better at this relatively advanced age, and when youth was there, the Spirit caught me in its higher pursuits which left me no scope to devote myself otherwise. Not that I regret having done so but I am just putting it on record and, so, setting the record straight.

But I watch with dismay the sheer apathy of the average Indian to serve the nation, and the greed for private and personal gain by way of an inglorious substitute for the superlative virtue of national service.

Shame, indeed, and more shameful shall it be when this post will evoke verbose responses, cowardly and callous, instead of it quickening in a warm heart ardent aspirations not for one's self but for the nation.

Written by

Sugata Bose

Photo : Sepoy Gurtej Singh, 23 years old, martyred at the Galwan Valley but not before carrying with him 12 traitorous Chinese soldiers to the other world.

14Tapan Bhattacharya, Sharmistha Chatterjee and 12 others

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