Caught in the tenacious grasps of laziness and provoked by the enchanting world of sleep, my vacation life was kind of dedicated entirely to the bed, sleeping for a whooping 16 hours with no hypnophobia related syndromes, helping me miss out on a lot this summer had in the offing. Well that didn’t last for long as something as mysterious and as ridiculous as how life could get caught me right in the sleepy eye. The above cutting from a popular Indian daily and the video captured with an ordinary Indian mo0bile phone you have just seen on this Indian blog, blogged by an anglo indian may have left you frozen if you were an Indian citizen brimming with patriotism. If i’m not wrong and if there is no political obsruction in my sense of free thinking, i can pick up various instances on seeing the Indian flag being misused on different occasions, leave alone the master blaster Sachin Tendulkar feat but also actions by other personalities, even the so called khakee clad policemen of Kerala or even the starchy white khadee clad politicians of God’s own country. I rake my brains and find no fuelling reason as to why Sachin tenders an apology. The situation prevailing found team india in the jaws of defeat in the world cup at the time of happening but seriously what if India had won the world cup? Believe me... No such accusations would have existed today and the column that engrossed wide criticism would have ensured praise for the Indian cricket team. Now let me give you a bit of certain comparison between what Sachin did and what the corporation workers did as seen in the video. Sachin cut the cake he was asked to cut in a ceremony that happened outside India. It is absolutely clear in every sense that Sachin’s part was only the ceremonious cutting of the cake not the ordering of the cake to be made in the shape and colour of the Indian tricolour. The corporation workers ,on the other hand, carried out their assigned duty of clearing garbage from houses under the jurisdiction of the corporation. Happened to be that the garbage that is normally disposed in polyethene bags got wrapped up in the Indian tricolour. Ask me why and i should say , the household ran out of plastic bags due to the ban on polyethene carry bags and ended up wrapping the garbge in the pride of our nation - The Tricolour. Maybe the household will get a new one later!
