Patriotism

Everybody would have reacted for any one of the events like 'it will not happen, if it is in foreign'. I am feeling our self esteem towards country got reduced into irreparable value. How are we behaving with others and especially with foreigners?

Last week, I was going through Subroto Bagchi's blog. I read his post My Mother is an Ugly Woman. This post is read by all Indians especially by younger generation. We must correct ourselves and should not let down our values.

Few lines from that post:
[I can deal with my poor, uneducated, disheveled countrymen back home, begging at traffic intersections, troubling foreigners, living in squalor and defecating in public view, and behaving in a thousand other unacceptable ways.

But I have difficulty when the educated, the well-to-do, the ones who have everything going for them, mentally defecate, trying to impress the world at the cost of their own country.

After lunch, when the young man was finally on his way and Koblenz was behind us, I thought of the idea of motherland.

The word “Motherland” evoked the image of my mother.

In that moment I wondered if there is anyone in the whole world who thinks that his mother is not beautiful.]