Will we ever grow up?

August 15th. A quick look at "Times of india" bombay edition -

"At Anand, state co-operation minister C D Patel and Anand district superintendent of police B S Jebalia saluted the national flag while it was yet to unfurl."

Mr. Patel and Mr. Jebalia have received a lot of flack over this. But what else could they have done. If they stopped the national anthem and asked the flag to be unfurled again I am sure the headline would have been about the same people direspecting the national anthem. If they would have moved to ask somebody else to unfurl the flag properly again the same result. I felt these are unncessary things to be reported. The media should mature beyond this.

"Dalit woman not allowed to hoist national flag in chhatisgarh."

If the earlier news was frustating this one is disgusting. Especially for people like me who always argue that one of the reasons why reservation should be removed is that there is no more distinction among castes in modern India. I if this sort of thing is happening after more than 50 years of independence, then there is something seriously wrong in the way the country's population is being educated.

The only consolation is these things are not unique to India. Such narrowminded people have universal existence!!