It's E-ndependence day, not Independence Day

I know 15th August is gone. But I had this on my mind since yesterday and I finally got a chance to express what I felt.

So we celebrated Independence Day finally. Not by attending morning march or saluting the Tiranga but by sharing status updates, tagging friends on flag photos, adding India badge on display pictures, changing cover photos etc. I mean to say we celebrated E-ndependence day instead of Independence Day.

My 67^th Independence day started with friend tagged me on some Indian flag photo with quote saying ‘Mera Bharat Mahan’ & this was around 12:03 am. Much like celebrating a midnight birthday! So I could guess that was going to be a slim chance for my friend to be there for  flag hosting  early in the morning on college ground. But this midnight independence tag led me thinking.. Oh gosh thanks there was no Facebook in 1947 otherwise imagine what could our history books read like...

‘Sharp at zero hours when rest of the world was in deep sleep first prime minister of India Mr. Jawharlal Nehru stated tagging each & every National Congress man in his status update saying ‘At the stroke of midnight hour, when the world sleeps after Internet slowdown, India will awake to life and freedom. - feeling excited’ within no time it got thousands of LIKES & SHARE. Top trend on Twitter was observed as #indianindependence #birthofthenation. More than thousand twitters were recorder on this historic night. In the morning Nehru posted the YouTube link of his speech from his FB account along with the Tweet at same time.’

Seriously my whole day went just by clicking ‘hide this photo from profile’ option. It seems like it's a half yearly tradition to show Indian patriotism on Social networking. 26^th January & 15^th August are the most (Online) Patriotic days. We should thank our great grandfather & grandfather’s generation for giving us two opportunities to show our love towards the nation. Most funny part is this wave of Love for motherland doesn’t even last for more than 24 hours. Raat gayi baat gayi.   

As usual tradition goes “UNESCO Chooses Indian National Anthem as Best in the World”, Nation Anthem & National Song (राष्ट्रगीत और राष्ट्रगान) debates were some of the most popular topics of the I-day. Another attraction this year was we want Indian flag on Whatsapp message.

This Online Day celebration trend is not new of us. We have explained how much we love our Father, Mother, Sister, Brother & friend on Father’s day, Mother’s day, Sister’s day, Brother’s day & friendship day respectively. We like to express our love for people who live under the same roof with us on social networking sites. Yeah, it's a strange truth.

While closing this topic as I know there will be not much time you have to read my post some people enjoyed the real I-day offline. The best example was one of my colleagues told me how patriotic he felt when he was offered a special lunch with Tiranga rice, Tiranga Puri & tri color sweets in our pantry as I-day special lunch. (That’s the plus point of being on a job when rest of the country is on a holiday).

I would like to know your thoughts on this E-ndependence day trend do comment & share some E knowledge.