15th August: Homage or a holiday?

India completes its 63 years of Independence on August 15, 2010. The country may admire its revolutionaries after watching a patriotic flick in a multiplex, but does it really hold to heart the freedom struggle and the day of our independence, or is it just another 'national holiday'? With rising corruption, honour killings, red-tapism, and increasing crime rates, a lot still needs to be done before we rest on our laurels. Do you think that rather than celebrating history, we should be concentrating on our present and future? Do we really feel empowered by our republic? Or is it just another holiday for us?