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Anyway, I digress. Should all Sindhis in India rename themselves as … (sorry, words fail me), to humor the petitioner? For once, the Congress said something sensible that “any alteration of Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore’s composition would “almost destroy” it”. However, the petitioner didn’t stop at removing the Sindhi reference; he stated that “the Pakistan government could raise an international dispute over inclusion of Sindh in India’s National Anthem and pleading for inclusion of the word Kashmir substituting Sindh.” Yeah, right! That should silence the Pakistanis.
Somewhere in the plush Karachi villas, an army general must be thinking, “hmmmm…that kaafir has a point, we should put that point in our terrorism manual.” It is already enough that we don’t stand up to their terror tactics, at least stop giving them ideas for stupid future grumblings. While we are at it, if you notice carefully, the anthem also honors Dravid. Tendulkar must be damn pissed (it’s a joke, dumbos; I know who Dravidians are). It almost reminds me of a crackpot conspiracy theory that the national anthem was in fact, meant to honor the Prince of Wales. Imagine the pie in our face, if that was true? We have been paying obeisance to a dead monarch all this while…all those tears for nothing?
by Patrix | on Thursday, March 24th, 2005 at 11:00 am | 
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March 24th, 2005 at 1:08 pm reply
Well, the song is literally instructional and Nehru listens when he is told to cry!
terrorism manual!
Dravid!!!!
LOLOLOLOLOL!!!
Good one.
March 24th, 2005 at 1:24 pm reply
Gabby - thankoooo! I guess, I caught the Alpha bug for a change :)
March 24th, 2005 at 1:53 pm reply
alpha bug? Keep that way from me!
That was funny Patty! Dravid..lol. even i heard that the national anthem praises the british raj. But it a great song and I will forever be proud of it. They better not change it, dammit! I get goosebumps everytime I listen to patriotic songs in languages I know. Aye mere watan ke logon, zara twacha mein bhar lo goosebumps.
Jai Hind!
March 24th, 2005 at 1:59 pm reply
If you haven’t laughed for my joke yet, I am prepared to type it for thr third time.
ok, sorry abt that..I thought it didnt show up the first time..the only explanation one can give to this.
March 24th, 2005 at 5:29 pm reply
are you messing with me??
March 24th, 2005 at 5:42 pm reply
By this logic, they should delete the entire anthem, as the reference is to George the fifth as the “bharatbhagyavidhata”
March 24th, 2005 at 7:43 pm reply
Funny post Patrix :D
Yeah, you’re right; the national anthem used to be a tedious bore in school when we used to ratto it, but in recent years its proved to be emotional and heart-wrenching …
…hmmm, I never think of myself as overtly patriotic, but the strength of emotion these songs induce prove me wrong.
March 24th, 2005 at 7:49 pm reply
Alpha - Messin with ya? I help you out by deleting your extra comment and yeh ilzaaaam :( anyways your tvacha and goosebumps was a new low even by my PJ standard :)
Ashutosh - Do you really believe that is true?
Ash - Ah-ha!only after we step outside India’s borders do we get all emotional.
March 25th, 2005 at 1:02 am reply
Ahh..the things that people come up with!
March 25th, 2005 at 10:20 am reply
I don’t know. I have heard from many people that this is the case. Do you know that it is not true?
March 25th, 2005 at 11:24 am reply
Queer - and people think we aren’t funny :)
Ashutosh - I mean, yeah I think it isn’t. It would have be replaced if it was found true. Heck, they changed VT’s name just it had a English name.
March 25th, 2005 at 1:38 pm reply
I don’t know. There are several websites which say that it was dedicated to George 5 and the Queen when they visited India in 1919. Apparently Motilal Nehru included these lines. I guess the object of the song simply changed after independence, but I am sure that many could have taken objection to making it the anthem that time.
About the change of name of VT, I think it was more of a convenient tactic on the part of SS (ironic..) et. al. to parade their supposed nationalism.
March 25th, 2005 at 6:06 pm reply
Ashutosh - I tend to view such conspiracy theories with skepticism…remember the supposedly NASA moon landing hoax, the Taj Mahal built on a temple, etc. But still Vande Mataram would have made a better anthem simply because of its popularity and relevance to the freedom struggle.
March 27th, 2005 at 12:17 am reply
hahahaha, that dravid joke killed.
oh god, i need some air in my room.
March 27th, 2005 at 5:44 pm reply
Anki - LOL! Just saved it from being a PJ although ur sis still thinks it is.
January 27th, 2006 at 12:49 pm reply
i think india should remove the name of sindh from national anthem as it is not part of india anymore .and if anyone says that sindhis are in india so it reffers to them then in india there are people from china, israel,japan srilanka, nepal, bhootan etc so u will put name of all countries.