You know the history. So there will be no cheesy high school speech from my side. Let's talk something concrete & practical. Shall we ? You know what happened & what we went through to finally cherish what we call our independence. Now I want you to take 30 second to look at the time before 1947. What exactly we did ? Back then it was a different kind of India. A fragmented India. Over time we realised the only way we can truly be free is not by being a separate state, but by uniting into a singular nation. And we did that boldly. But we didn't say forget about Odisha, forget about Uttar Pradesh, forget about Karnataka. We said "although we will bear a collective identity of India, we will still cherish our identity as an individual state". Then time passed. Just like the British, new forces entered the national space. Forces that have gotten so subtle that it's hard to put a sticker on them. One burning example is a virus called Covid-19.