On independence and freedom

its independence day today in india. every1 is rejoicing 60 years of independence for the country from the shackles of the british tyranny that lasted upto this very date in 1947. every1 is happy about the landmark of 6 decades of independence and looking forward to the next phase of the indian era. every1 is so happy, every1 other than me. yup, i m not so happy, all i have in my mind is utmost respect for india's freedom fighters, thats it, and a pang of pity too. i m not, and have never been a patriot really, a feeling thats been in my mind since i was 7, since i was in third grade. a feeling i cud never express publicly, for it wud bring me public disdain, sthg that i was cautious not to invoke. i knew that even at that age. instead of patriotism, all my mind cud think was, "why, really, why on earth, all this regionalism and territorialism, and why cant people say, 'I belong to this beautiful universe'?". why does it have to be, "i m proud of india", and stuff like that. i cud never have realized in the wildest of my 7-year old imagination that even though common man -- at least a common man like me -- wants a global footprint, there r some fat ambitious men sitting up there on corrupted thrones who want power in their hands, power which restricts people, which dictates them, power which may not b encroached upon by fellow-ambitious fatties. these r the dirty people who started the funda of regionalism, the funda of kingdoms, empires, countries and such divisions of land, the borders of which cannot b crossed by people who do not 'belong' there and if they wish to cross over, they can only do so with 'special permission' from the already corrupted higher order. in these modern days, we call these permissions 'visa's. note that i did not mention divisions like states, provinces, districts or constituencies and such, bcoz we always need those for easing local administration. these r healthy partitions which do not restrict people from transcending borders freely. the above-mentioned evil desire for power caused another evil which was to descend upon the peace-loving and weaker sections of people who wanted nothing more that to live on this earth and co-exist with fellow-men. and that second evil is colonialism. a result of the fat ambitious people's unquenched thirst for uncontrollable power over fellow-men. this evil desire was largely a result of the ancient european powers, started by romans and greeks. then continued on by the likes of dutch, portuguese, french and british. gosh, how i hate to say classifying words like 'dutch', 'british', and so on instead of saying humans. anyway, they robbed people of any sort of fundamental power in their colonies. one by one, the colonized nations produced eminent heroes who won freedom for their respective countries. i respect such people with all my humility, however i pity them, coz they had to waste a gud part of their lives on very basic things like ensuring basic fundamental rights for people. now really think about it, was all that crap necessary at all. what an eminent barrister gandhi wud have been had he not had to waste his life on struggle for freedom. and we know bhagat singh and sukhdev, et al, by sorry words like martyrs. none of this wud have happened if people simply led their lives as citizens of the universe and learnt to share it with all other creatures. we say india has been independent for 60 years when actually it is one of the oldest inhabited terrains on earth.
according to me, at least now, people shud drop all categorizing words like india, pakistan, muslim land, africa and stuff like that. now at least people shud start saying, lets make the universe a better place, lets all co-exist. we must not make projects for only one 'country' or one class of people. let me put it this way, our martyr freedom-fighters didnt just want to see an independent and united india, but a unified world. i dont remember gandhiji ever denouncing britain in general, he only targetted specific ambitious persons. he never wanted india and britain to be at odds with each other, he wanted both to be gud friends of each other, instead of a master-slave relationship.
if there is no ambition or ego for power over one another, we will always stay independent of any other person or class of people. and people will never want to say, this is my motherland or i m a patriot. these words r completely at odds with the modern world, where globalization brings things that r better in one part of the earth to another part of the earth. but due to things like countries, there is a cost, stuff like duties, restictions, trade zones, etc. but thats another story.
talking of globalization, now india is losing independence in another walk of life. technologically -- in information technology at least -- it is heavily dependent on a country like USA. main reason -- microsoft. india has chosen windows as its number 1 operating system, thus causing its IT setup to b slaves to the whims of this one superpower. microsoft rules business india, like british once ruled the country itself. open source and free software must b looked upon as an option really urgently, b4 microsoft does sthg to screw up the entire business setup of india, with some silly technical or business decision. i have already thrown them out, i m using linux for a couple of years now. i m using opensuse on my laptop though and if the microsoft-novell does sthg nasty, then its time for me to switch to kubuntu.