National Anthem a powerful tool!

Farhana Rakshand

National Anthem, a powerful hand tool that stirs every Indian’s patriotic spirit. Standing up for Indian National Anthem is something every Indian follows. If someone doesn’t budge on the trend he would be severely punished by our government, even he could be jailed for 3 consecutive years. Before anything else, the people around wouldn’t spare the person in question prior to getting officially penalized for it. We sing the song with such rigor and passion that it naturally evokes inspirational allegiance towards the nation. The tone of the anthem moves everyone to stand involuntarily at attention with transparent sincerity.

Apart from our dedication towards displaying patriotism we still need to work on our ethical and civic sense a lot. Our lack of traffic sense creates havoc on our roads that result in chaos and accidents. Today, our olfactory sense is used to sniffing out strange odors due to garbage heaps everywhere in our cities.

We contrive to pollute the environment at our peril. However, with all religiousness, we have the spontaneous sense of standing- up straight when the anthem is played.

India looks like an abandoned country with lots of social and economic issues, where everyone is set out to obey a single instruction of the attention position, however, no one is willing to solve them.

When questioned about why we throw garbage wherever we like, most of the time there is no answer. Either we question our government or laugh it out in return for the answer.

Lately, one of our favorite pastime is spending time on WhatsApp, Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram, but we do not have time to think about the environment.

Every day, in schools or government offices we parrot the words of Jana Gana Mana as a mark of respect for our country. Singing comes easy as this is the only possible thing to afford to show that we care about our nation whilst incurring the least risk to our material and time loss. That is why all our loyalty and patriotism gets consumed in one standing position.

The solid, single order from the govt. of India shows our unswerving adherence towards it.

So many people have lost faith in the people of India because of the regressive thought process. Without any consideration of our fellow human beings, we revere the tune of some song without understanding it at all.

However, I still have faith owing to the reason the extent of dedication shown towards the song. This single spark in fellow men can ignite the fire in them. That is possible only if rules are stringent and implied correctly. When the mob is so strict towards the National anthem why cannot towards the environment. As this environment is India but not this song. The song is in the air just to soothe our nerves, our environment is our mother India about whom we have to care as we care for our own mother.

( The author is working as an English and French Trainer in Bengaluru)