With gradually increasing consistency, I’ve been picking up indicative hints about the emphasis that is to be placed on the May 2016 Independence Anniversary event, apparently in preference to the annual February Republic Mashramani activities.
Over the past two decades, Frankly Speaking, I grew cynical about the concept, then practice of celebrating these national milestones. My closer friends would hear my mutterings: “Celebrate? What is there to celebrate? After 40-something years of independence, potable water doesn’t reach up to my second flat in south!” In fact as we working-class citizens well-know water, electricity, safe cheap transportation, even reliable accessible security are all frequently absent from our lives much too often. So “celebrate”?
Yes I’ve commented on this issue before, both as an informed, concerned citizen,
