India's National
Flower: Lotus
Animal: Tiger
Bird: Peacock
Song: Vande Mataram
Sport: Hockey
Father of the Nation: Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
But look at the scenerio nowadays in India. The flower Lotus is used only for worship in temples and in the flags of BJP. No person in India ,when asked which is his favourite flower, will say its a Lotus.
Taking the situation of the national song, Vande Mataram, it is A.R.Rahman who comes to our mind and not the original one by Bankim Chandra Chatterjee. The young generation loves the fast music and the fast beats.
The times of Dhyan Chand, Balbir Singh etc is over now. It is Sachin Tendulkar, Dhoni etc who rule. With all due respect to the greats of the game of cricket, isn't it our responsibility to make sure that the game of hockey ,which gave us our first gold medal in olympics, is on par with cricket???
Everything that is Indian is facing these problems, be it with music, dance, culture, food anything and everything. The western culture has influenced each and every one of us. We have become slaves of the most modern western culture. But sadly, we havent taken the positives from them though like cleanliness, public property maintenence etc. This is the human nature.
Accept what you want and forget the rest. Lets change this, i fully agree that we need to mix with the western culture, but that doesn't mean forget ours. Lets preserve ours and take what is positive from the westerners.
vande Mataram
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