I have sweet and beautiful dreams of my country. I am a resident of India. She is my beloved motherland. I am proud of being an Indian.
I wish that my country may rise to a great nation. She should help her neighbours and may give them the message of peace. I wish that my country should become militarily strong and be fully prepared in this nuclear age for defence. I wish that no foreign country may dare attack again, like the plundering raids of the old times. We should try to live peacefully with our neighbors. But we should not lack in our security in the name of peace. Hence, I wish she should become first rate world power in terms of military strength.
I wish that my country should become a messenger for peace in the world. India's great culture and civilization had once spread in the far corners of the world. I wish that she should send her cultural envoys once again to spread the ancient Indian culture. I wish that India should lead the world in the field of spiritualism. I wish that our saints and seers must once again start towards the distant lands to spread our great and glorious culture.
I wish that there would be no illiterate person in India of my dream. I wish that India should introduce such system of education as should enable every citizen to earn his or her living. I wish that my government should educate each citizen. Adult education, female education and education of children should be made compulsory. I wish that India should become a highly industrialized nation. She should start cottage industries in villages and heavy industries in cities.
I wish that our country should make great progress in science. India should make use of atomic energy for peaceful purposes. India should send rockets to the space and should advance in the field of science and make her own military requirements. We should establish big factories to produce all sorts of machines.
I had taken the Inter Examination. Some of the papers were quite stiff. I had not fared well in Mathematics as I have never been good at Mathematics. I was waiting for the result with fear. On this 5y the saddest one in my life - my result was to be declared. I looked at the result. My fears only turned out to be too true. My roll number was missing in the list of successful students.
My old father was then ill. He had been suffering from high Mood pressure. The news of my failure shocked him. He was Speechless with sorrow. He expected much of me. I was once the brightest boy in the school. All my teachers spoke highly of me. But Mathematics had let me down.
It appears as if circumstances conspired together to undo me. Fate had turned against me. There was still another shock in store for me and the whole family. My elder brother was employed in Civil Supplies. He was the head clerk in the office. He had been suspended on the alleged charge of corruption. It was alleged that, he had taken bribes from the people. He was not on good terms with the boss. He made out a false case against him. On his report he was suspended.
An enquiry of the police into the alleged charges against my brother was held. We were sure that my brother's innocence would be proved. There was not much evidence against him. But the police 1 collected a mass of lies against my brother. All false evidence was cleverly put before the magistrate. We thought that the learned magistrate would see through the game and know the truth. But no, even the magistrate was befooled by the crooked evidence of the police.
It was on this day at about 8 p.m. that we received a telegram. When opened the envelope, my ailing father impatiently enquired of the contents. With tears in my eyes, I told my Father that it was the dismissal order of my brother. My father was wild with grief. My brother was the only bread earner in the family. We ail depended on him for our life.
The shock was too severe for my sick old father to bear. He died under it. The whole family wailed. My two younger brothers
And a sister was beside themselves with grief. They wept bitterly the people of our village came to sympathies with us in our tragedy this indeed was the saddest day in my life.
