Today,we celebrated our 61st "Independence Day"..we all know why these special signs before and after the Independence Day!
No...we don't..before anybody comes to any conclusions as to what these actually mean...I would like to clarify that I used them because I don't think we're living in a free world!Again a very cliched statement as such but I won't brag about the smaller issues of poverty n illiteracy n all...everybody talks about them...I want to discuss something very personal!
What does freedom mean to me?Everyday except our National Holidays....it means ticking my fingers over the touchpad of my phone and sending out english alphabets having some sort of a meaning(for eg..FU! etc.etc.!;) to my friends every few minutes just to keep in touch n all!But come our National holidays and our telecom operators hike their SMS charges to Rs. 1.20 per text and then we get SMS'es telling us-"Be a responsible Indian and sms this deshbhakti text to 10 people!"...I mean WTF!You charge 10 times the money it costs me any other day and expect me forward such SMS'es!First of all,how much of a responsible Indian am I in the other 364 days of the year is the question that comes to my mind immediately!But,I just wonder how Indian is Mr. Arun Sarin or for that matter Mr. Sunil "Bharti" to be charging us "Gareeb log" exhorbitantly for sending just a few characters to our close ones!
I felt so handicapped today not because my MTNL charged me differential rates but because my friends were!!!!People must be wondering as to what kind of a leech I am to be writing about Rs.1.20 SMS'es but I just think it is unfair on us and I think the Ambani's too fight it for every 10p. that they charge us on each call!
Coming to the end...I don't think I've written this the way I wanted to but I've written too much to be deleting it in the end!So....... ;)
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