Aren't most Indians exactly like that? Sometimes a picture is still worth a thousand words!
Thanks to Saikat Chakraborty for sending it to me.
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4 comments:
Yes! A simple picture sometimes expresses more than what a page of commentary can!
The cartoon clearly depicts the type of patriotism Indians have for their country. Sadly it is a True Story. In our lower classes the value education teachers always made sure that we say our foremost aim in life is service to our motherland, but, as the old saying goes, you can take a horse to the water but you cannot make him drink it. Of course the students replied what was expected of them but, sadly, without knowing what 'service to our motherland' meant. Maybe even the teachers just preached without actually setting an example to the students which limited our patriotism to the 15th of August only! Moreover we are seeing a free India right from our birth. We've never suffered the hardships of the pre-independence period. Maybe that had added to our indifference.
Rajdeep, thanks, and you too, Ria. I thought I had lost you! As for what you have said about teachers (and parents, by extension - parents are everyone's first teachers), the vast majority of them are guilty as accused: they have made I-Day a shameful farce or an irrelevancy. Far better for them if they taught honest disrespect for the nation than the kind of hypocrisy and callous, selfish unconcern that they drill into their charges by word and example... far better to teach, like Munnabhai, for instance, that Gandhi is only that half clad old fellow whose mug you see on currency notes, and on whose birthday a sanctimonious government does not let us buy liquor!
Sir ,
The following song by Shilajit hits the topic point blank:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8QYMANrVS8
Regards,
Krishanu
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