A Pride with many a fall


Photo credits: Pavel Gospodinov 
Globalisation is believed to have reared an accused affliction to itself, for each of its polished globalised citizen seems to follow an evident pattern. A pattern that maintains a constant head turn towards western culture with only an amorphous and woolly sense of patriotism to pin them down to their land of birth. Patriotism becomes but a mere social urge to hold to a commonly ratable something. "A question of Indian pride"(The Hindu-Magazine;Feb 25) shatters this very idiosyncrasy of the hugely far-flung Indian psyche. Anyone can play the blame game and retreat to a laid back state without caring an ounce for the genocides, serial murders, rampant rearing of terrorism or mishaps due to pure negligence. Even if violence is never an answer, action is and to play dumb and deaf in the name of peace is the stand of a coward. The foundations of our country has been fortified to an extent by the the still echoing ideals of Mahatma Gandhi and of centuries of imbibing civilization. Thus we should give it a try to pitch in our contribution, even a solemn word of acceptance or a cry for the cry of those who are unheard.

Comments

Gautham S Nair said…
Good topic and a well written blog. But i think you have given real stress to Idian petriotism but i would like to look around me and see a single petriotic feeling petriotism for the whole world i think such a feeling is far better.
B. said…
Hey nice thought yaar....and your language seems real gud too....
Everything seems to be at the right place.I'm afraid i'm not able enough to fix the right comment.Simply too good...

But dont get carried away.Keep up the good work.All the very best...
Unknown said…
hey g3..a very relevant and interesting topic u hv chosen...we definitely face an identity crisis in india wen we cme 2 ask ourselves wat role do we play in todays world and the repercussions of our action/inaction on certain issues which u hv mentioned...its well written indeed and im lookin forward 2 furthr posts!!
john said…
hey pretty neat gurl..keep bloggin!!
maddie said…
hmmm beautiful instead of chasing angels n pursuing tears in the darkness(as i do),u came down to earth looked around,found the pain,the reast was natural the pain u put it in ink the pain,transformed into beautiful words,which made ppl stop their fast going lives n think for a second...good keep up the good work after some time i'll give u my blogs also....
Partisan said…
u have a really fluent style of writing n this piece also brings out important points abt da identity crisis with which v r confronted with, its really gud- nw to a small point of advice-
u cnt use da term 'globalisation' 2 freely, it is a term 2 widely misused already (in kerala esp), u sd b always more specific in using it, in here i wd recommend 'western driven globalisation esp since da 1990s'.
culturally n socially india ws always affected by movements of people their cultures, n trade, which is also globalisation, n so often ignored.
k jus wantd 2 let u knw abt dis point...nyway do keep it up, i really enjoyd readin ur blog.
Arun Vishnu said…
nice language...!!!
naila_angel said…
hey g3..tatz a lovely topic n nice language too!!keep up the gud work!!

Naila
Anonymous said…
Interesting to know.