This is as usual a belated post - I was supposed to write about Singapore's National Day last week, but as usual didn't!
Well, Singapore celebrated it's 42nd National Day last Thursday and it was day of pomp, pagentry and celebration. This year was the first there was a parade on a floating platform - a world's first. I have always loved a parade - the sense of nationalism it invokes in me always brings up goosebumps! And since I consider Singapore my home (even though I am not a Singaporean), Majulah Singapura brings up the same awe that Saare Jahan Se Accha or Vande Mataram does to me.
Today India celebrates 60 years of freedom and at this time I am proud to be an Indian! In fact I am proud of both my countries - India, which is the country of my birth and therefore my motherland and Singapore, where I moved to live my life after marriage. So in a sense India is my maika and Singapore my sasural. I am proud that in the last 42 years Singapore has come up from being a country filled with villages to a first world country and India which has grown so much in the last 60 years that it is a world Superpower now.
So HAPPY BIRTHDAY INDIA and BELATED BIRTHDDAY WISHES SINGAPORE!! Keep prospering like this!
Well, Singapore celebrated it's 42nd National Day last Thursday and it was day of pomp, pagentry and celebration. This year was the first there was a parade on a floating platform - a world's first. I have always loved a parade - the sense of nationalism it invokes in me always brings up goosebumps! And since I consider Singapore my home (even though I am not a Singaporean), Majulah Singapura brings up the same awe that Saare Jahan Se Accha or Vande Mataram does to me.
Today India celebrates 60 years of freedom and at this time I am proud to be an Indian! In fact I am proud of both my countries - India, which is the country of my birth and therefore my motherland and Singapore, where I moved to live my life after marriage. So in a sense India is my maika and Singapore my sasural. I am proud that in the last 42 years Singapore has come up from being a country filled with villages to a first world country and India which has grown so much in the last 60 years that it is a world Superpower now.
So HAPPY BIRTHDAY INDIA and BELATED BIRTHDDAY WISHES SINGAPORE!! Keep prospering like this!
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