63

So what does 63 mean.. Is it mere 3 in the units place and 6 in the tens place. Well 63 alone doesnt make any sense.. a few zeros trailing make it a million or a billion. May be its the number of those casualties who did not know that they are about to be eaten by a virus, a tiny speck which cannot be seen except under an electron microscope and is as dangerous as an atom bomb. Dont worry the actual number of casualities isnt that huge..
Ironically.. it is the age of our country!! yes it is.. It has been 63 years since the Indians were made autonomous. What did we do in these 63 years? Arent we developed yet?? What should be the measure of the development of a country. Is it the number of people able to afford all the luxuries and comfortably grow dumb enough to forget the basic facts about their own country.. or Is it the degree of numbness that grows day by day which is turned into hatred for some other community or country?? No definitely not... Or is it the ability to control all other nations in the world and rule them with the fear that the single brink of an eye would turn them into a pile of ash. Is it the number of sophisticated airships, advanced submarines and nuclear ships lurking in the waters of other countries just waiting for a radio signal ? 

 Definitely not.. Lets try to define development.  The reason we are here alive is the mother nature let us. So one of the factors pertaining to development would be how close we are to the mother nature.. Indians dont have a situation to buy the basic things for the sustenance of life.. air and water.. Thanks to the advent of development and globalisation when many people are cutting themselves from the external world sitting in their airconditioned rooms not caring about the vast amounts of carbon gases they are releasing on others who are apparently unable to  afford them.. But the thing we are overlooking is when we cross the thin line, Mother Nature takes it by force.. Dec 26 stands an example when tsunami struck at the most unexpected places and destroyed the human habitat. 

 Again it is not the number of countries that nation puts a check on. It is the number of factors unseen to the human eye but felt even by the smallest kid in the country-hunger. Unemployment, Corruption, Accountability are other things that our country has to wage war on. Last and most important of all it is the confidence of the people that the country should strive to protect, not the territorial boundaries.