A country that lost its identity

"WE, THE PEOPLE OF INDIA, having solemnly resolved to constitute India into a SOVEREIGN SOCIALIST SECULAR DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC and to secure to all its citizens: JUSTICE, social, economic and political;LIBERTY of thought, expression, belief, faith and worship;EQUALITY of status and of opportunity;and to promote among them allFRATERNITY assuring the dignity of the individual and the unity and integrity of the Nation;IN OUR CONSTITUENT ASSEMBLY this twenty-sixth day of November, 1949, do HEREBYADOPT, ENACT AND GIVE TO OURSELVES THIS CONSTITUTION."

This is the preamble to the consititution of INDIA. Where are we 50 years from the day this was written?

Let us start with SOVEREIGN - a country that holds the supreme authority to law making and enforcing it. Even the Supreme court judging panel won't bet on this. Our polcies are always influenced by the regional and national politics. That's the reason our nation doesn't or will never have the guts to give capital punishment to any terrorist who is proven guilty. So are we SOVEREIGN? No. We are more of SEMI-SOVEREIGN.

Now SOCIALIST - An economic system that through state or public ownership of any production ensures economic equality to citizens. What? Our economy and politics are controlled by Ambanis and the likes. We are part of the globalization and probably we are as SOCIALIST as United States.

SECULAR - This is the best part. India has no Unified Civil Code. What applies to me may not apply to David or Rahim.

DEMOCRATIC - Former terrorists and hooligans get elected from most states in India. They get into administration and we are good till "by the people, of the people", but does any elected representative work "for the people"? No.

to secure to all its citizens - 13 terrorist strikes in 2008. Yet the administration won't or can't act.

Equality of status and of opportunity - I am all for reservation. I am a strong believer that hundreds of years of anarchy and suppression has created mutiple classes of people. The ones that were subject to ages of brutality needs to be raised to the same level of others - through decades of education and opportunities. But is caste the single criteria for it? It might apply fairly well in Bihar, but not in more forward states like Kerala or Tamil Nadu. It is just common sense that you need to realize that the reservation scheme in 21st century needs to be redrafted and should be subject to review every few years. Otherwise, we are just reversing the hour glass.

What this makes us? A country that lost its identity..