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Republic day - Value of our Flag

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A customer came to a Flag Seller to buy flag.
"What is the cost of the flag?"
Flag Seller replied "The cost is too high. You cant give. We sacrificed more than 32 lacs martyr's life to get this flag, Can you calculate the cost?"

Customer is Speechless.

Jai Hind.
 
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What Is The Price Of A Flag?

It was a particularly cold and windy morning yesterday, the kind that leaves you feeling like an icicle. But there they were on a busy crossing on the outskirts of Gurugram, waving the Indian tricolor in the hope that some motorist might want to buy one, big or small. This is something one has noticed in the last couple of years, that as Republic Day approaches, major thoroughfares become brisk locations for the flag-vending business.

As I rolled down the car window to ask the price of the flags, the woman cheerfully rattled off the rates – chhota bees rupay ka, bada assi ka aur sabse bada dhai sau ka (the small one costs Rs 20, the big one Rs 80 and the biggest one costs Rs 250). It was a straight answer to a simple query but her demeanour seemed to suggest that she was open to some haggling.

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I did not bargain. I did not even buy a flag, being more interested in making sense of the entire business of buying and selling flags on the roadside. The woman did not mind. I parked my car on the side and spent some time talking to the 20-odd members of her extended family making a living selling flags for the time being. They were aware they had just one more day to boost their sales. January 26 was the sell-by date for the flags.

I was curious to know where they got their merchandise from, what would happen to the unsold inventory and whether they would make a decent sum on the occasion of this Republic Day. They did not offer any reply to my question but showed no inclination to end our conversation either. Originally nomads from Rajasthan, they had spent some time in Faridabad and had now come to Gurgaon to try their luck at these kind of temporary jobs at the crossing. They had even built their hut nearby. Selling flags was their very first job in this new location.

What was clear was their deferential outlook towards the tricolor. One youngster politely requested me to not photograph a flag planted in such a way that a small part of it was touching the ground. He told me, the flag is like god. It should be held aloft; no part of it should be touching the ground.

The grandmother of the family, who was sitting by a small fire, attempting to mind a bunch of boisterous children and trying to sell flags, was eager to sing old patriotic film songs for me, songs from a bygone age.

When I asked them why they were selling flags, the grandfather unhesitatingly said it was to celebrate India’s independence which had been won many years ago by Jawaharlal Nehru. Another voice piped up from behind – ‘Jab tak suraj chand rahega Indira tera naam rahega’. A passer-by who had stopped to warm his hands before the fire, commented that “for ‘these people’, Congress is forever associated with Indira Gandhi”. With an assurance that I would come back in the evening with some hot chai, I left. The kids raced after me – “get some toys too”. Not one of them had made me feel as if I owed it to them to buy a flag.
 
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