Living is an art of negotiating freedom and spaces of ideals, interests and identity with institutions and within institutions of power relations. Such institutions include language, culture, religion, family, civil society, market, knowledge, employment and nation-state. Institutions are standardization and ordering power relations for various functions and outcome in the broader human ecology and habitat. We are all born in to institutions. And our identities are shaped by the institutions that we are attached and affiliated to. And the very act of giving a 'name' is given. 'Naming' is also an act of co-opting a child in to given institutional network that is entrenched and established in a socio-cultural ecology. Hence, we are all only free enough to make choices within the scope of our given or affiliated institutional network of power relations within the social, cultural and historic context of a society.. And the most evident signifier of this is your 'name'. And 99.99% people are given their 'name' by the institutional network that link family to religion and language.
Republic Day is to remember and celebrate the idea, values and practice the Republic of India as enshrined in our Constitution and articulated so well in the very preamble of the Constitution of India.
Let us remember how we became a REPUBLIC. Let us remember who struggled for making us a RE-PUBLIC. Let us not forget who all betrayed the struggle. Let us be aware that who all undermine the core principles and values of our Republic. Let us be aware who are all trying to sell our Republic. Let us be beware about those who undermine the Constutution of India, the foundation of our Republic.
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