Borrowing from Marie Antoinette, "If they dont have bread, let them eat cake !"
One of the most famous historical myths in the world.
Marie Antoinette never said that .
Speaking of which, neither did rajiv gandhi ever say to slum dwellers complaining of water shortage to drink Limca.
Oye Hamiclar and Inder,
cool down bhai. Cant believe you both, of all the people are fighting.
Bhai log, bahar walas are a bit more sensitive even for smaller things. Bhai agar yaha we speak badly of motherland, to yaha par bhi deshdrohi. India mein to hai hi deshdrohi. Its like we use the N word against blacks, its racism but they use it all the time amongst themselves.
Aap socho,, aap sab burai karte ho to theek par if bbc or a gora or pakistani says the same thing to kitna bura lagega.
'Shunned the country' Inder bro dont joke esp re: Hamiclar. You know hes giving up a promising shining career to come back to India.
Hamiclar bhai, i can understand the sorrow you feel esp in light of whats written in those forums but bhai aap bhi socho.
They are advertising for tourism? for what?
You have seen the world. One of the least tourist friendly places ever.
Tata advertising is called a clever move because they have quality steel products and cars.
Kamal Khan spending money to advertise deshdrohi claiming he is more popular than Shah rukh is completely different. It is foolish and completewastage of money. But it is his money and he can do whatever he wishes.
This debate is just like the world media saying india and pakistan are crazy to fight a 60 yr war in siachen while all that money could be spent on other stuff but we being patriots say differently ki Bharat mata ke liye kuch bhi karo.
Similarly people are justified in saying money should be spent on roti kapda makan or bijli paani sadak.
Take indian shaadis crores spent on what? 5 din ka tamasha. The world says its crazy, logic says its crazy but we do it. That is also an 'advertisement' of ones social standing.
There will always be 2 sides to this argument.
Just being on a particular side doesnt make one a patriot or a pseudo patriot.
5 yr old: desh kya hai? humein lollypop chahiye.
16 yr old. Pehle pmt/pet nikalo phir desh kisochenge
25 yr old: mnc mein job chahiye.Zyada tax doonga to desh ka zyada bhala hoga
RSS: mnc mein kaam karne se videshi takat badhti hain aur desh kamzor hota hai
visa reject: main deshbhakt hoon .NRI desh drohi
NRI: maine plot khareeda hai india mein foreign exchange bheja hai ; main patriot hoon.
Neta: hum desh ki seva karte hain.
Intellectual: ive read about all great people who travelled abroad and then came back.
99.99% india: patriot to sachin, ganguly, yuvraj dhoni hai.
All have a diff. view point.
A lot of people i met here tell me that patriotism in itself is a govt. sponsored propoganda and is quite big in communist states and socialist states for eg. India.
Singing national anthem/ vande matram etc in school assembly. Deshbhakti geet on all govt holidays and annual functions etc are all an example of that.
In many countries these rituals dont exist.
In a lot of countries not supporting ones national team is not considered bad. For eg. Desis here openly support india in india england matches.
No one tells them ki get out. khaatey humara hai aur gaatey unka hai and people here are surprised to hear that in india, indians who support other countries in cricket are called gaddar/deshdrohi.
Enough of ranting.
gotta go get some shuteye
or the bridge collapsing? no body wants these games to fail,and i hope no more shit hits the fan or any bodys bed. :)May india truly shine
shooter, take a bow.
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to all you said.
.No hard feelings towards my fellow brothers in arms.
expecting the usual le cafard!
. Hell I bunked and went to see the shooters. Unfortunately, not getting a ticket made me hear about Abhinav's score outside the stadium. Finally, got a ticket with Amit's help and went in. Got to see the sport pistol gold being won. Thanked Gagan Narang for doing his bit and he just lit up. Tomorrow is the individual events. There are glitches in the web based ticketing but the bank is a fair and easy place to get tickets. Somehow our stadiums are brilliant drove by Nehru Stadium yesterday. Would you believe we even have smiling policemen, who work on even without any water to drink. Plan to watch the aquatics on the weekend, i've finally got the games fever.