When
you hear on TV that Someone said the above statement, the first thing that
comes to your mind these days is, that Someone must be
anti-national. That Someone doesn’t
deserve to be in India. Ministers who have
the important job of running the country are stopping their work to tweet, or
grab the nearest TV camera, to say, ‘Someone should be thrown out of the
country. Why live in this country if you
hate it?’
So
what does it mean to say ‘I hate India’?
‘I
hate India’ says an activist
An
activist who is fighting against construction of dams, after being harassed,
arrested, and tormented, says, ‘I hate India, for its apathy towards those who
have to leave their homes’. All of a
sudden, this sentence doesn’t look anti-national anymore.
‘I
hate India’ says a tourist
A Indian
tourist who travels the world gets back to India, and looks at the pollution,
the dirt, the trash, and the garbage everywhere, and says, ‘I hate India. I
think we should start cleaning our cities first’. All of a sudden, this sentence doesn’t look
anti-national anymore.
‘I
hate India’, says an angry mother
An
old Indian mother who lost her husband, says, ‘I hate India. Which makes me
stand in line for many months before giving me my pension’. All of a sudden, this sentence doesn’t look
anti-national anymore.
‘I
love India’, says a terrorist
Before
blowing up a big bomb in an Indian city, a terrorist records his voice and puts
on internet, ‘I love India. I love it so
much that I really want every Indian to feel the pain of love I have for them’. All of a sudden, ‘I love India’ doesn’t sound
so endearing anymore.
