Republic Day!!

Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism - how passionately I hate them!  -Albert Einstein

Oxford dictionary defines “patriotism” as ‘having or expressing devotion to and vigorous support for one’s country’ and a country is a as we know a geographical area or territory governed by a set of people. So if I may quote George Bernard Shaw here “Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it”

Who defines borders? Who defines Freedom? For that matter who defines the line between patriotism and treachery? Who defines the time when this part of the world became India? Who defined the point of time when a set of people living in that piece of land were called Indians?

If discriminating people on the grounds of language, accent, color, caste, work is considered as racism why is dividing them in boundaries is not considered racism? Why wars are not considered an act of Terrorism?

As Pablo Casals said “The love of one's country is a splendid thing.  But why should love stop at the border?”