15th August
15th August, just another holiday for the common man. Sharing patriotic pics, YouTube videos tricoloured profile pics bears a testimony to his love for the country. And it is this common man who is existent in every level of the society. He gets fun in breaking rules and escaping punitive actions despite disobeying the order of land. He spits on the roads, pisses in public and if rebuked agrues he is not the only one doing it. He cherishes forecasts of his country becoming number one in some 2051 but soon hurries back to despair tasting the empirical reality. He knows misuse of democracy has been rampant in his motherland. He knows the politicians he votes for are nothing but cowards who compromise with the prevalent evils lest they might loose votes by hurting popular sentiments. Yet he religiously uses the ballot only to hear some empty promises and then finally consoling himself hearing news of tax reliefs in the budget. True it is that he doesn't go to the borders defending hi...