How in the world one could die for their country or cause?

What’s about India? I don’t know what all to say. We have many things to say about India. We had some brave fighters for justice and self-respect. And, we have cowards who doesn’t care for anyone other than their family.

Speaking of bravery and self-respect, I saw a movie yesterday called “Battle of Algeirs”. It’s about how Algerians fought for their freedom from French. It narrates how they sacrificed their lives fighting for their country. After seeing the movie, only one thought came to mind. “How could they do that?” “How could they sacrifice their life for their country?” “How could every single person in a country was ready to die for their country?” I couldn’t imagine it maybe because I was not under that situation. But, I tried to put myself under that situation and thought what I would do. To be honest I couldn’t bare myself dying for some useless people so that they can rule my country and enjoy themselves. State of my (maybe most of today’s youth) mind was like ‘Why should I sacrifice my pizzas, my trekking and my selfies for some person’s son or daughter to enjoy the same?” I think you can understand whom I am talking about.

            And now comes a question, ‘Why don’t you join politics then?’ Yeah, I want to. But, what if I die because of that. Will you guys will do an uprising and take over the country from these rulers. Absolutely no. At the most, I may get a candlelight vigil. And it’s all back to pizzas and selfies. I am not saying you shouldn’t eat or take selfies. I loveeeee food and selfies. I would say the reason is we don’t want to lose the enjoyment we have right now. We don’t want to lose our pizzas or Briyani and go to some rural place eating some ordinary food on a roadside shop. We don’t want to miss our securitized adventures and take up an adventure that will cost your life.

            There couldn’t be any solution for this because everyone including me likes to blame and just sit. But wait a minute. Everyone’s not like us. There are some persons who really do care even today. Stumbled upon some articles yesterday while browsing for present day bravers. Some examples of present day fighters are V Balasubramaniam and S Bhuvaneswaran who were all RTI activists. And believe me there are many more. Balasubramaniam was killed for seeking information about alleged irregularities in several handloom weavers' cooperative societies in Kancheepuram district (http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/chennai/RTI-activist-found-dead-on-road/articleshow/6346865.cms). Bhuvaneswaran was killed for seeking information about land grabbing activities by land mafia in Avadi (http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/RTI-activist-murdered-in-Kolathur-by-land-mafia/articleshow/11443449.cms).

When I read all these, I just thought why these guys have to seek information which would kill their lives. Can’t they seek information on some delay in getting their own passport or his wife’s passport? I seriously couldn’t understand. What is in it for him? Is he going to get a medal by so called politicians in Republic Day Function? Is he going to get money from the people who are benefited by the info and become a rich guy and own a cruise boat in Goa? I couldn’t figure it. And also I still couldn’t figure why Bhagat Singh had to sacrifice his life for us. Why couldn’t he have just sat around and watched like other people?

            Some may say Patriotism and some may say Love for people. Yeah maybe. Or could be any other reason too. But why? What Bhuvaneswaran or Balasubramaniam or Bhagat got from their sacrifices? At least Bhagat Singh got to become my WhatsApp DP for one whole day. No, not a whole day. I had to change it in half a day with my selfie at Dindugal Thalapakkatti. Whatever. But, what these two present day fighters got? I don’t even have their picture though. So, I think they didn’t get anything from me or you too.

            But, what they would have got from their sacrifices? What they would have thought at their dying moment? Would they have begged their assailants for Mercy or accepted death with dignity and courage? Or would they have told to their assailants like ‘Why do you want to kill me guys? I am fighting for people like you guys only. Please understand’. Who knows. And one more tragedy here is Bhuvaneswaran was killed before his four year old daughter. Wouldn’t he felt sad for leaving her daughter’s future in dark? And this guy Balasubramanian, he is 68 years old. Why in the hell he has to fight when he can just sit easy daisy and read some stupid news on so called No.1 Newspapers.

            No answers. I don’t have any answers.

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We can find the answer maybe if we have a chance to fight for our country and our people and die in the process. Maybe we could understand that Bhagat did it for us so that his fellow citizens and his Motherland to be reprieved of foreigners and breathe Freedom. Maybe Balasubramaniam thought his people are far more important compared to his leisure activities. Maybe Bhuvaneswaran thought someday we all would rise and as a result his daughter might live in a country which he longed for.

But I think, their souls will never worry for the decisions they made. Even after they get to know whatever they did are useless. (NOTE: In this case, Bhagat is so miserable that he has to endure this fact for a long long time dating back to Independence Era) They did what they wanted to do for their country and I think they will do it again if there is after life and there is a country called India in that after life.

All said, I don’t know whether I or you reading this article have the guts to be one of them or even try to be. Thinking of saying many more things. Before that one question keeps on bugging me all the way through this writing process. ‘What in the world did you do?’ My answer is nothing. And, ‘What are you going to do?’ I seriously don’t know what my answer would be. It’s because I have a Cheese Sandwich waiting for me. And I prefer it more right now than this. Bye

And yeah, I forgot to ask ‘What are you going to do? Are we in the same league?’