Unflagging India's Missing Freedom
Unflagging 'India's Missing Freedom'
The essay “Flagging India's Missing Freedom” by Dipankar Gupta is a very well-written essay. The title of the essay is very captivating and still remains quite appropriate. The author tries to drive home the point that India, as a nation is insecure The essay is very persuasive and does a good job in imprinting the point of the author onto the reader's head. The author clearly states that punishing individuals for caricature of the flag is a negative trait.
The point of contention is pretty simple. The Britishers who once ruled India for over a century are very careless about the way they treat their flag, and this can be seen in most British colonies too. But India, for some reason does not. The author believes that it makes utmost sense to copy the policies of Britain because it ruled us for over a century and is a democratic nation like ours. The author in his essay tries to make it clear that considering caricature of the flag as a serious offense is a negative trait, by giving examples of many fairly developed nations like Denmark, Germany, Ireland, Canada, Sweden, Norway and Japan. He carefully choses only well-developed nations. But then there is that obvious question that any reader would ask. What about the big boss? What about USA? The author answers this by saying that America does have this negative trait that we Indians, like always, have copied.
The author lists down many examples of incidents that took place in the developed nations, where cartoonists and protesters weren't punished at all, even though their work was very controversial. This makes the essay interesting and makes the reader believe that their work was more controversial than that of Aseem Trivedi.
The author then tries to answer the question by citing yet another example from history. He believes that India as a nation is insecure. And believes that a 'weak' economic growth is the reason for this insecurity. He uses this essay to
The essay “Flagging India's Missing Freedom” by Dipankar Gupta is a very well-written essay. The title of the essay is very captivating and still remains quite appropriate. The author tries to drive home the point that India, as a nation is insecure The essay is very persuasive and does a good job in imprinting the point of the author onto the reader's head. The author clearly states that punishing individuals for caricature of the flag is a negative trait.
The point of contention is pretty simple. The Britishers who once ruled India for over a century are very careless about the way they treat their flag, and this can be seen in most British colonies too. But India, for some reason does not. The author believes that it makes utmost sense to copy the policies of Britain because it ruled us for over a century and is a democratic nation like ours. The author in his essay tries to make it clear that considering caricature of the flag as a serious offense is a negative trait, by giving examples of many fairly developed nations like Denmark, Germany, Ireland, Canada, Sweden, Norway and Japan. He carefully choses only well-developed nations. But then there is that obvious question that any reader would ask. What about the big boss? What about USA? The author answers this by saying that America does have this negative trait that we Indians, like always, have copied.
The author lists down many examples of incidents that took place in the developed nations, where cartoonists and protesters weren't punished at all, even though their work was very controversial. This makes the essay interesting and makes the reader believe that their work was more controversial than that of Aseem Trivedi.
The author then tries to answer the question by citing yet another example from history. He believes that India as a nation is insecure. And believes that a 'weak' economic growth is the reason for this insecurity. He uses this essay to