After I bought my car, one of the first things which was fixed in the interior of my car as a decorative was a Ganesh Idol - that was gifted to me by my dealer itself. The next thing which I wanted to buy was the Indian flag - I finally bought it when we visited the Wagah border.After I had put up the flag in my car, I started noticing the interiors of other cars on the road, and found that almost 80% of cars had similar Indian flags in their cars. Then yesterday (which was Republic Day), I found that even auto-rickshaws had flags pinned up inside.
This led me into thinking as to whether this "flag thing" indicates that we Indians are a patriotic lot and whether after 60 years of independence, we have shrugged our apathy towards the nation and started taking pride in being Indians.
Well ... I really can't say. To the skeptic, this could as well be because car accessory stores have flags as a decorative or say hawkers coax you into buying these at traffic signals, and finaly because you saw the flag in some other car, you also wanted it in your own (herd mentality - something too common in us Indians)
A more mixed/midway reason could be that we Indians are emotional - not necessarily patriotic. Now, someone might say that patrotism is an emotion and so being emotional and patriotic mean the same in context of the country. Well ... lets not get all punctilious here ... I guess everyone gets the point of what I mean by emotional but not patriotic.
What do you think? What is the reason we Indians have flags posted inside our cars or on our bikes?
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Hi we are leats patriotic.Its just a token on like one day an year.A real indians flies the flag high everyday through his actions.
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Well..i guess it is usually to get appreciated. Some might really do it out of patriotism, while some might consider that it looks grand, while some might do it so that people speak great about that person. Either way, we must feel happy that people have not gone so bad that they consider the flag to be out of fashion or something ..
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