Real Indian Patriotism

It is good to see Indians exhibiting  very strong feelings about being patriotism for their country. There was recently lot of views given If people should stand or not, for the national anthem when played at the cinemas. 

However, I would like to question if we are really showing true patriotism i.e. to love/ safe Guard our land/people and if our scope is only limited to the National anthem. 

Today in India it’s so common to see politicians under the cover of the flag telling people to be Patriotic, like for the example Goa CM stating that not standing for the anthem at cinemas is a lot about ones upbringing! These same politicians  promote and allow, unnecessary destruction of land/water bodies/hill cuttings/ destruction of fields etc for greed of corporates, unnecessary mega housing projects, unplanned/illogical road  etc and with it so much of wild life and forests are affected; Is doing this because of  of ones/his upbringing?

Today, surely many Indians with patriotism say they will defend the country against enemies, but what about the enemies within? Today enemies inside (not outside enemies/powers) are destroying a lot of our land, Environment, forests etc. just take the Goa example. What Portuguese did not destroy in 450 years, India has done it in just 56 years! See photos of Goa at liberation and now and see how Goa has been converted from a beautiful, clean,  peaceful state with pristine beaches  now lots of destruction, polluted water/air, Garbage, filthy beaches and so on.  

Also not to mention the poor in India continues to get poor and the mega rich becoming even richer fueled by a Government sponsored by the mega rich and we can see policies of the Government on who they actually favor. For the examples to recover thousands of crores of Rupees given in loans or mismanaged by the mega rich/corporates the Government is now making up by putting all types of taxes and charges eg. In Banking sector on the full country. I.e. More Burden on an already heavily burdened population. They even allowed people with massive debts to leave the country!  And the Government conveniently gets away with all of this by singing the Nationalistic tune and many people get to easily fooled by all of this !

So coming back to patriotism; is it only against outside forces and we are fine to tolerate bigger enemies within !  It’s time we  exhibit true patriotism against any enemy( internal or  external ) who against our country and its people.  If we can’t address the latter even in a small way within our means then our patriotism is just plain Hypocrisy!