Have you looked closely at an incredible India add lately. The other day, I had to prepare a short infomercial about the two sides to India’s copper coin. So the video consisted of the mountains and the seas, the bays and the rivers, the Himalayas and the mangoes. It also consisted of horribly congested traffic jams, a mocking beggar laughing into the camera and a small child of barely three serving tea to Aamir Khan (read from TZP). As the infomercial started out, with the beauties of our great nation, it was rather satisfying to see many of my fellow classmates exclaim in awe over how beautiful our country really is. In the next second however, as the picture flashing on the projector changed, so did the reaction of my audience. It seemed like the audience identified more with the polluted Ganga and the ever increasing potholes. I even heard a loud and clear whistle ring throughout the audi as the traffic jam filled the screen up.

Passive: When we look around and accept what it is that we cannot change.

Revolution: When we give to ourselves the mantra 'Karenge ya Marenge!'

I went to see Krazzy 4 today and stood up like a good obedient girl when before the movie began the national anthem was played. I even kept quite and narrowed my eyes at the foolish young couple sitting before me who kept tickling each other while the flag fluttered in the breeze before us.

For those of you out there who experience some lost sense of patriotism when something really inspiring is shown in a movie, will probably love this one scene from Krazzy 4. Rajpal Yadav, who plays a rather cute fanatic 'desh bhakt’, notices that some idiot who probably was in a hurry to get the job done, has put up our national flag on the notice board in such a way that the green end is up. Promptly, with some sentimental music being played in the background, he goes up to the notice board and reverses the order.

Law: The national flag must always have its saffron end up. It is the fundamental duty of every citizen to keep this in mind.

Generation: group of people who seem to be in a hurry to get everything done.

Anyways, so while watching the movie there is this one scene where a small girl starts singing the national anthem. Halfway through the scene, I and my friends suddenly realized that it is our fundamental duty to stand when the national anthem is being played. (We probably were going through the same haze that Laloo Yadav and Shrimati were when they didn't stand at a Republic Day parade). In classic RBD style (who? What? Was there any such movie?) My friends and I stood up. But to my utter shame, nobody else, not even some of my other friends in the theatre did the same. Mr. Roshan, Sir, could you put it in sub text during the movie, that it is mandatory for every Indian to stand during that scene?

Karenge ya Marenge: the dialogue that could be heard in ‘1942 a love story’. You remember, Manisha Koirala, Jackie Shroff and Anil Kapoor.

Misguided: when you are a history student and don't know about the Quit India movement.

Belated Happy Republic day India.