Is it really that we are celebrating the 79th year of Independence, or are Indian citizens put into a cage after 5 years—just a bigger one? Celebrating freedom under the umbrella of poverty, poor healthcare system, even increasing crime rate and what not—are we really free from all the cages?
Web of Poverty – Poverty Is Decreasing, Right?
We are touching the moon, but people are lying on the roads under the street light. Talking about the first ones on Mars, where people still fight for a day’s meal. The web of poverty is the image of India for the world. It’s just 5.3 percent we see on the papers, but there are many roaming on the roads, sleeping under the open sky, fighting for their survival, begging for their one-day meal.
When the World Bank released the report, it showed that India reduced the poverty rate, and we were extremely happy about it. Is the poverty rate really decreased in Indian states?
The answer is yes, but only on paper. Almost 5.3% of people are living on less than $2.15 per day, which is the criteria of the World Bank to measure poverty in India. According to the Indian rupee, it’s just ₹188.06. Can we really think about living under ₹200 a day? It is easy to see a YouTube video about living on ₹200 a day, but really living on ₹200 a day daily is harder than what we think. Where, on the one hand, the ministers are getting iPhones for smoother work, on the other end of the nation people are still suffering, sleeping with empty stomachs.
Drowning India – Failed Drainage System
The Indian drainage system is failing in all states—even though there are different parties across all India, everyone has failed to correct their respective states. The tampered roads, despite giving heavy taxes on every good, show that governments failed to provide what the public deserved. The water till the knees, tampered roads, and accident rates in the monsoon are not ready to drop every year.
The multinational companies are making fun and poking Indian Govt on the road conditions, showcasing how flexible the tyres are even on a tampered road, and the need of introducing boats on online platforms like Uber and Rapido. Daily, more than thousands of people are facing problems due to heavy rainfalls, and our system is not ready to correct it. Indian cinema, or we can say Bollywood, romanticised rain every time from the 90s to the present. Every time, rain is romanticised like it is a token of love, but in reality, the situation is worse than we expected.
Water till the knees, when the walk is impossible—how could we romanticise it? We’ve built cities that never sleep, but the monsoon still drowns our streets.
Governments have changed. Decades have passed. But the system? Still broken. Maybe it’s time we stop waiting and start questioning—start electing leaders who don’t just talk the talk but walk through the water with solutions.
Do We Need to Prepare for an Exam?
Introducing built trains for making life easier and faster—just like paper gets on the boards before the centers. Introducing the toughest exam in the world to mark the IQ level, to select the best out of the best, as India has a huge youth population. Sadly, the unemployment rate is also high. And when it comes to giving exams, or basically the competitive exams like JEE, NEET, and UPSC, the pressure is real for the students as the competition is higher than what we think.
But introducing the question paper before the exam—the dreams failed, the wings shattered. According to the source, between 2019 and June 2024, in the time span of six years, 64 major paper leaks across 19 states have been seen. In the higher exams like NEET-UG, JEE, to the lower level school boards, our education system has already failed. Over the past seven years, more than 70 confirmed paper leak incidents impacted around 1.7 crore students across 15 states. A massive number of students left their dreams hanging down to the dust. When exams like NEET-UG and JEE are considered the toughest exams across the world—so the parents failed? Or the students failed? And the education system is still waving high—how?
The Indian minister promotes Indian education institutions and claims them to be one of the top education facilities as well as faculty in the world, when their own children are studying in the top universities of foreign countries. Does patriotism only stand for the citizens, not the ruling class?
Bowing Down to Goddess but Scaring Girls?
Happy Independence day to that nation. Where we worship women in the morning & rape them at late night. According to the sources 30,600 rape cases reported in 2019 as per NCRB data, over 27.8% of all reported rate victims were minor. We bow down to the goddess publicly but slap women silently, 29.3% of married women aged between 18 to 49 experience spousal violence including physical, sexual or emotional. We celebrate feminism, we celebrate equality but behind the curtains, we are the one who abuse it, we're the one who mock it. Over 6% of women aged between 18 to 49 reported experiencing some sexual violence at some point in their life including harassment.
Praising one profession while degrading another - calling it a true feminism and use of power, that’s the definition of equality for women and their rights. Lighting the candle for the rape victims, and silently being a part of the one who abuse women. From the parliament to the Indian household the oppressor and oppressed are the same who bear equal rights under the
constitution but still one gender holds too much power. And still mock women for bearing a larger portion in the constitution when a large number of women are silently being oppressed by the man.
Because an “average Indian” deserves more than empty promises. It’s important to feel freedom, not just celebrate a place of respect, dignity, and equality in theory. We can’t ignore the reality that we still live in a country where many can’t afford a single meal a day, a safe roof overhead, or proper healthcare. Yet, from our own end, we can make someone else’s life a little easier. It’s easy to criticize the government, but far harder to contribute ourselves.
We must question the government and contribute—not just step into another cage every five years, draped in the tricolour. The real vision is to see that tricolour flying in a sky where respect, equality, and safety truly exist—where every eye is filled with pride and patriotism.
