1. Independence Day

    Indians have taken to the path of self-destruction by aping the Western ways. They have discarded and desecrated their own culture and have become beggars at another’s door. They are now flying their flag of independence, but this is also a dispensation of maya. Factually, they cannot gain anything from it.

    From:
    Renunciation Through Wisdom
    by Srila Prabhupada