Hellow all, today there is something different from what I write generally. It is nationalism. Yesterday when I was watching the 'madras cafe' movie, these thoughts which were silently roaming in my mind started jumping out. They posed a question to me -"is the nation for its people or people for its nation?" These series of thoughts just broke all my conviction on patriotism, which was groomed carefully from my childhood. PEOPLE, FOR THE NATION: To answer the question that puzzled me is not so simple. It requires a contextual understanding of the topic of nationalism. Nation-a utopian concept, though, holds a high place in the hearts and minds of people. There are people like the army men whose patriotism is undoubted. However, this concept of nationalism when interpreted in a wrong way lead to the severest of human crisis-world wars. It was ultranationalism that engulfed the humanity of Europe especially the Italians and Germans. It is that concept of nationa...
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