Chris trades his love flag for a fan’s LGBTQ+ flag - March 31, 2017
Hope is being able to see light in darkness.
Life in three dimensions
Chris Martin is literally life ❤
feeling like a bau5 with that telephoto lens
~ and at the end, we lie awake, and dream of making our escape. ~ 🌌
Am I tumblr yet?
Chapter 2: Freedom
“Freedom”. When you open a dictionary and look up the meaning of this word you will find many phrases like ‘ the state of not being imprisoned or enslaved.’ or ‘ the power or right to act, speak, or think as one wants.’ but it did not always mean that. At one point in history, freedom meant building large stone cities instead of tribal huts. At another point it meant invading any country you like for your own benefit politically and at some other point it meant leaving the whole world behind and aim for the moon. But in recent times, it’s meaning has totally changed. You must be thinking that how is it possible for a meaning of a word to change, but it is not quite impossible for a word to have a different meaning at different points of space and time.
In 1950, The Constituent Assembly of India which included the founding fathers of this great nation, introduced The Constitution of India to all Indians, declaring the nation a Republic. The Constitution states that “India is a free and secular country without any external rule or power.” If I may say, the problem about external power in our country was never a big one. Thousands of years ago the Turks and the Tughlaqs invaded our country. They robbed India of it’s rich gold and money and declared it their kingdom, with the historic city of Delhi as it’s capital. However harsh and cruel they were to Hindus, they were successful in making their own empire which enriched the cities in the North with new culture and infrastructure. Then came the infamous Mughals which transformed India into a rich land. Even though they were very bias towards Muslims and ill treated the Hindus, they have a large responsibility in what India is today. They built massive structures, rich with Muslim sculptures made of sandstone, all over their cities which can still be seen today in the Northern Frontier. After the welfare enriching Mughals came the economic draining British with their ‘Sirs’, ‘Sires’ and ‘Lords’ and vision of a British world order. They were cruel to all Indians and imposed unnecessary bans. Let’s not forget about the thousands of innocent souls they killed and ruining the unity of different cultures in our country. But let’s not forget the good things they did which was vital for our progression too. They introduced the Indian Railways network, telephones, western education and built roads. Without them, India would remain an under developed country and you would not have had the privilege to read this article. Sometimes I wonder why did the British do what they did to us. Their main idea was to rule us, torment us and loot us. Why did they introduce these vital systems for our own welfare? And while all this was happening, Indians were dumbstruck, helpless and cried for ‘freedom’. Freedom from what may I ask? Aberjhani, a great poet once said “A bridge of silver wings stretches from the dead ashes of an unforgiving nightmare
to the jeweled vision of a life started anew.” India is a country which has never invaded any other country in the 10,000 years of it’s existence and has always allowed anyone from outside to come and use us as Indians believe that guests are the ‘Incarnation of god’. This quote sums up what India really needed to become what it is today. And it took 10,000 years, various foreign powers and millions of deaths to reach there.
India, in its sixty-ninth year of independence, has became a global force to reckon with but really is not up to the mark when it comes to freedom. There are countries like the USA, who have now legalized same-sex marriages and then there is India where a man is beat up to death just for consuming cow beef. If a man isn’t safe to eat what he wants then what type of freedom do we really have? A country where a girl can not step out of her house feeling safe isn’t really ‘free’ in my opinion. We don’t have freedom to say whatever we want because then a local government official might burn down our houses. The Indian Government on the other hand is going on a banning spree to resolve this issue. They think banning adult movies and comedy will reduce rape cases. They think banning alcohol will make cities safer. With this type of thinking they are slowly taking away our freedom. Even though India is considered to be free from any external power, it is really an internal power which poses a threat to our freedom. An internal power which is so corrupt that it doesn’t care about the people and only extorts money for it’s own benefit. India is heading towards a wrong direction and it is our freedom which is at stake.
To me, traveling is just going somewhere, anywhere, whether familiar or new. It doesn’t matter if it’s the next town over, a new country or a continent on the other side of the world. And I personally don’t think it matters if you’re gone for one day or one year or one decade. As long as you have even the slightest interest in the destination you’re visiting, and you’re open to learning about the places you visit and about yourself in the process, I think you’re traveling. It encompasses a great range of experiences, I know, but I personally don’t think the word ‘travel’ warrants a more complicated description.
It’s a beautiful world out there with many surprises.
So, Go Explore. 🌏🌌🗾🌅
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