It's not just three colours

I was watching this movie 'Gadar' few days back and there was this scene where Sunny Deol flaunts the Indian flag swaying it speedily while walking through a rebellious crowd in pakistan, grappling to seize back his pakistani wife, but not willing to compromise with his identity of being an Indian at any cost.

I tell u, there is something very mysterious about that tricoloured flag. Like any other scene of the movie,I should have absorbed it without being personally perturbed. But something happened, i tell u, seriously something happened after watching that flag being waved among a crowd that denied to respect the values it claimed to carry. It seemed like some strange but a very strong force gushed into my body piercing my conscience. It kept dominating the whole of me thereafter.

I know very well that a national flag inspires patriotism. It inspires the soldier on a battlefield to fight till death, it challenges and dares a player to play for his nation , drives him on the olympic torch flames but how does it inspire an inactive- brained, good for nothing, almost-a-burden -on- the- family, twenty something girl who has always been googling on every single thing including patriotism just to appear intelligent in conversations?


I believe, I am one of that young crowd which delivers speech on corruption , unemployment, national integration and similar issues only on group discussions held by MBA institutions and at job interviews but hardly worries if these issues are seriously nibbling the national economy or whatever into pieces. But again, I am one of that very same young crowd whose heart beats aloud when it sees the Indian flag proudly swaying high up in the air in front of the Indian Embassy in an alien country.

I honestly admit that I dont possess the capability to comprehend this stark irony of detachment and attachment with my national identity but what I could decipher is that a national flag is not just a symbol of a nation's geogriphical and political existence but much more to that. It makes you realise that whether you are a common civilian or a political head of ur nation, when it waves in the free air, your conscience is bound to be morally affected.