i have been often accused of not being patriotic enough,and i have no pretensions of being a nationalist if that means hating people whoevers interests clash with my countrys'
in fact the only thing that stirs up my patriotic fervor is when sachin tendulkar is hoisting those majetic sixers ,yeah,that makes me proud to be an indian..but sorry ,very rarely do i get the same intensity in my bhakti...
i can still vividly remember one incident which happened a few months back.i was chatting wuth few of my friends in a very low key manner when suddenly the topic of discussion turned to indo-pak relations.and then i witnessed the extent of hate that has been instilled here in the minds of innocent guys ,i was flabbergasted to see that a person can believe something so blindly and with so much misplaced passion..i just asked them that what makes you hate the common man on the streets of karachi , what wrong has the common pakistani done..
But unfortunately this holds the same there too.and how this thing is gonna end,i ve no idea frankly..maybe we will still be cursing each other a 100 years from now,the steets of india will continue to be empty during a indo -pak cricket match or ....i dare not dream farther!!
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