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Today India celebrated its 60th year a a republic. However I find no reason to celebrate. Some might call me a pessimist. But let me explain. Look at the phone call I received. A call from a kashmiri refugee begging for food to serve the thousand odd hungry refugees, who hadn't eaten in two days. Their homes had been destroyed by terrorists, forcing them to flee their motherland. Hungry, homeless and abandoned, their only hope was the promise by the government to relocate them in Kashmir, a promise they hadn't fulfilled in months. The only thing the government had provided to the 105 tents were vessels to cook their food. All this while the government had spent lakhs, maybe crores of rupees on the republic day parade to showcase our various cultures. Should we still have celebrated?As I watched television today,I saw a documentary on the army men, a tribute to the soldiers who laid down their life for us ten years ago during the kargil war. While they died fighting for us, we gave them and their families who willingly sacrificed their sons, husbands, brothers a medal, some money and the promise to forget their names and faces as soon as we switched off the television. But when the son of a rich man won the Olympic medal, we celebrated, showered him with crores of money and continue to sing his praises even then. Yes, we should take pride in being Indian.While ten lakh girls die even before the age of ten, some are killed even before. Girls are raped, denied education, killed for dowry, burnt alive, all this while our President is a woman herself. We are immune to terrorist attacks, the blame game, butter countries who provide "foreign aid" to other countries who train terrorists against us, while we welcome their diplomats and sing their praises. Yes, we should take proud in our "sovereignty".Our Constitution, adopted 50 years ago this day, promised us Liberty, Fraternity, Equality, Justice and being Secular. Though each one of these principles has been mocked at, ridiculed and violated day after day, year after year, we still take pride in being a "Republic Democracy"- How Ironic.