60th Independence Day - - Memorable

All these years from my childhood, Independence day was only considered as a national holiday by me. Ofcourse some times case was different, while attending essay writing competitions or some other competition, i have spent enough time on national leaders and nation but never won a prize or never presented correctly about nation. But this time, its altogether a different deal. Along with few of my colleagues in company, we visited an organization named WOMEN who has given shelter to Helpage India....Confused right?...we will talk about helpage and WOMEN in later part.
Started with Flag Hoist and Jana gana Mana ..we assembled in small place which accomodated around 75 Old people + 30-40 Volunteers (From 2 different Organizations) + around 10 Helpage people..Speeches started, for every single sentence, people started clapping. I was gradually losing energy seeing all these and my hands are not willing to join and make sound. atlast Cultural activities started, old people started enjoying (ofcourse its not us). we atlast were succesfull in disturbing these elderly people, went on and started interacting. One old woman got onto stage and started dancing for Meri anganemo tumara kya kaam hein Song and one more old woman joined..i could not stop laughing and enjoying. While we are distributing fruits and sweets, Some of them started keeping these fruits safe in carrier boxes and then asking for another one, i then realized poor people are trying to take these fruits and sweets to their family. at the lunch also same thing happened. Altogether it was like a different world for me on that day. we enquired with few old people about Helpage, there was no single concern raised by any of the aged person there..thats where i was impressed about this helpage...Last but not least, Lunch with volunteers, we had good food, healthy jokes...consolidating Fun @ Food time.. (Telugu: kondari lo too much comedy undi asala, sattires yesi sampesaru.)
Here is something about Helpage, if any reader (Other than me if available :-)) is interested
Helpage is an organization who will pay visits to all Slum areas with the help of mobile vans and get all the details of Aged people and help those aged people survive better by providing them with pensions, taking them to some other places frequently...Helpage has not got any specialized home to carry on with all these activities, Helpage tied up with 911 such organizations (Like WOMEN) to help Old people. For more details visit http://www.helpageindia.org/