Fly the flag, but correctly

In the park, a tricolour is tied half way up a fixed flag pole.

- NAVTEJ SARNA

Fifty metres away, a mammoth flag flutters from a towering flagpole, more than making up for any slight to patriotism caused by the wrong half-masting. Three more flags of varying sizes around the park, including one on the chai-wallah's cycle, leave no doubt about the colony's love for the nation.

Even two weeks after Independence Day, the tiranga is everywhere, in all shapes and sizes, in khadi, polyester and paper. On balconies, terraces and gates. On advertisements, vegetable carts, dhabas, shop fronts. Flower pots, electric poles and even an entire Tata Nano are painted in flag colours. A square flag is projected in neon on a commercial block. Our nationalist spirit doesn’t just live in our hearts: it proclaims itself from the rooftops. From one flyover one can spot three mammoth tirangas, supported no doubt by competing RWAs.