Mera bharat mahan

India our motherland.
Todays I was just discussing(I was actually argueing) bout which is a better city Delhi or bombay (Now mumbai thanks to our jobless politicians).
Both of us were adamant 'bout proving their own city better then the other and were trying really hard (with some help google. ofcource!!) to produce statistics to prove nad support our point.
But the whole thing just made me think of one thing how much we the so called "Literate and educated class" argue bout things like region,religion, caste and stuff which otherwise we would say that we have raised above.
Have we really raised ourselves above those issue or is it still somewhere at the back of our mind lurking to reveal itself whenever thr's a chance??
Is patriotism is only limited to India's cricket matches(which again is a reall sad story)??
Or do we need to have something like kargil for us to raise above our issues of region religion caste color creed.
why dont we wear our patriotism on our sleeves the way autralians or Americans do??
Or is it that our india is not good enuff for our patriotism??
Well india being such a potpourri of cultures, diffrences are bound to happen.

But are the point that bothers me is that we are not so passionate bout our country as we are about our religion or any such difrentiating factor. and am not talking about the "zabardasti" ka patriotic, where I have to be patriotic about my country as I was born here(this way all the terrorist who infiterate into india from pakistan would be patriotic)but be proud of it as I feel I belong here and the country belongs to me.And India being the country with a rich history, a history full of sacrifices(I just had so much trouble in spelling scraifices :-/) I think anyone who will have some integrity would be proud of it.

These days all the example that we see of patriotism are hovering around bandhs protests elections and something or the other related to that.

It sounds very corny but our grandgrand fathers wouldn't have imagined us flaunting our deshprem in such a form(given my grea great great grand father wasnt lazy like me and was actually fighting for the country).

I guess today's patriotism has risen a lil bit more and now ppl are writing blogs and spilling over the net.

Lets hope something better will come in future