AN INDEPENDENCE DAY RESOLUTION

AN INDEPENDENCE DAY RESOLUTION

O my dear country men!
 Let’s not celebrate It as a mere flatulent and flamboyant formality,

Let’s not proclaim the hollow, parched and clichéd assurances,

Of socio-economic justice, indiscrimination and equality,

And hoodwink the hapless, credulous and gullible masses!

 

O my dear country men!
Let’s not misconceive of the nuances of Inner Freedom,

In the sense of only political sovereignty:

It’s being free from moral depravity,

Being away from our own Five Senses’ serfdom,

Eradicating the Evils of illiteracy, ignorance and vulgarity,

Curing the unbearable plagues of hunger, thirst and poverty,

Keeping the slow poisons intoxication and addiction at bay

Not coming under the ugly, attractive and tasty falsehood’s sway,

Not defiling the valued Virtures of honesty, loyalty and chastity

Not sowing the baneful seeds of envy, hatred, betrayal and cruelty,

Not planting the saplings of malice, terrorism, treason and communalism,

Not stifling Humanism, Nationalism, Rationalism and Eartheism!

 

Unless we can practise this sacred, solemn and indispensable Resolution,

What’s the sense of a shallow, sham and pseudo ‘Independence Day Celebration?'

Glossary

* flatulent – about empty assurances or proclamations

* flamboyant – showy/colourful/flashy

* parched - dry

* clichéd – unoriginal/the same/no new

* hoodwink - deceive

*hapless -  ill fated/miserable

* credulous - innocent

*gullible - easy to fool

* nuances – delicate degrees/states

* sovereignty – independence/ self-government

* depravity – immorality/ wickedness

* Five Senses –  Sight (vision), hearing (audition), taste (gustation), smell(olfaction), and touch (somatosensation) are the five traditionally recognized senses.

* serfdom – a state of slavery

* eradicating – eliminating/ending

* vulgarity -  indecency/ bad or uncivilized manners

* keeping at bay – remaining away from

* sway – influence

* defiling – polluting

* chastity - purity

* baneful – destructive

* treason - betraying one's own country

* stifling – suffocating

* Eartheism – thinking of the well-being of the living and non-living things of the whole earth

* shallow – superficial/not deep

* sham – pretence/ not real

* pseudo – artificial

©Dr. Shankar D Mishra, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India 

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