Making up mind as to what to write on for a non writer is an arduous exercise....A path-breaking decision of the Government of India finally catalyzed my drive to start with my blog.
The Indian Government has recently adopted a symbol for the Indian National Rupee. Though this may not have much prima facie importance but to me it, in a manner, has resurged a feeling of unity and nationalism within many hearts in this country.
Nationalism is one value which was unheard of for more than 60 years of our independence and which was buried under the garb of petty political considerations and interests. But such island steps of those in power keep the ray of hope intact that there still exists something like an "Indian" or "strictly Indian".
This adoption of the symbol not only has an emotional but a historical significance as well. Use of "Rupee" or "Re." or "Rs." was a pure colonial practice. To my understanding, this step, in a way, earmarks the end of colonial influence on our monetary system. The INR now stands at par with the Dollar, the Pound, the Euro, the Yen etc, in terms of a nationally and internationally identified currency symbol.
India has been a country having diverse cultures, languages, communities; still it has remained united from time immemorial. An unknown factor has always held us all together as Indians, despite such diversities. This adoption, be it a tactic of the Indian Government to strengthen the Indian Rupee, it seems to me as a historic step where the government decided on something rising above partisan politics and appeasement theories. To me it seems as an embodiment of that unknown factor which exists there in the minds of all Indians.
