India at 75

The Indian flag and the tokenism around it is being used to cover up the inadequacies and injustices being meted out to the marginalized in the country

How do you define a democracy on the 75th year of its independence when it choses

to assess the patriotism of it’s citizens through their love of the national flag, the

Indian tricolour. In the 75th year of its independence which is being celebrated as

‘Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav’ , people of the country have been asked to change

their display pictures in their social media profiles to the national flag, to take selfies

with the national flag and post it on social media. Shopkeepers have alleged that

they are forced to sell the national flag to those who are buying essential

commodities. In a video that has gone viral across the internet in India , daily wage

workers lament that they can barely manage enough for a meal but are being forced to

shell out money to buy the national flag to ‘prove’ their patriotism’