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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=406019" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Patriotic once in a year</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I claim to be patriotic once in a year<br>So many people may disbelieve and refuse to hear<br>It will ring them a danger signal in the ears<br>Still I say it emphatically to all my near and dear</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I am no stranger to golden history of independence<br>For sow many years we remained under dominance <br>I am being poisoned repeatedly by the current trend<br>I have no more scope to improve or make amend</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I feel shy of calling my forefathers idiots or stupid<br>Had it been known to them, they would have not made any bid? <br>Or laid down arms and lives for gaining freedom? <br>I have gone through complete history but came across seldom</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Had I known for ever that it will be made only Government function? <br>I would have opted for making presence in any desolate junction<br>There at least I could have breathed freedom with free air<br>Can any one claim today that participation in such function is fair? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">I salute to all those who consider mother land as more precious than heaven<br>I could have still considered less fortunate to take part even<br>My soul feels pinch of salt to hear the ill treatment of dependents of martyrs<br>It all drains my energy out and compels me to tire </div><div style="margin:10px 0">I am for sure they will be remembered only for today<br>If they do not then they will be hackled for all the days<br>They have found all the escape routes to malign war veterans<br>Why do they want to share all plight and agony with concern? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">I know it has been won after great sacrifice and struggle<br>I too know it well that it was barbaric and rule of jungle<br>Still they have spared some bright history behind <br>We nothing as such in store today to find</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Even as on today we remember less all past glorious kings<br>Even from history we pick up the name of traitors and remember <br>How many such traitors we find in our free land as of date? <br>The history of independence is of recent times and not very late</div><div style="margin:10px 0">We have mastered the art of laundering national wealth<br>We can play havoc with nourishment food and health<br>We can temper with judiciary and even holy constitution<br>With What respect I raise my head and claim part of institution? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">I can compromise national interest for paltry some<br>If not war booty then cut back money can be received very handsome<br>If I fail to catch the nerves of my country men with their plight<br>How can I claim to be patriotic or even feel part or sensibly right?</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Hasmukh+Amathalal">Hasmukh Amathalal</a><div class=q>
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So many people may disbelieve and refuse to hear
It will ring them a danger signal in the ears
Still I say it emphatically to all my near and dear

I am no stranger to golden history of independence
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