If you were glued to your TV watching the new Parliament building being inaugurated with a Hindu religious festival, if you were watching with tears of joy as the Prime Minister of a secular country attended and laid the foundation of a religious place, then your objection is...
...not towards a religious flag being hoisted at the Red fort. Your objection is towards a non-Hindu religious symbol being on a flag that was hoisted at the Red Fort. You don't mind religion being part of a procession because earlier today, you watched a jhaanki with a temple...
...in it. You have internalised the idea that your religion is the definition of this nation. Your discomfort stems from the reminder that that is not so and that large numbers of people can have sympathies for religions other than the one you belong to. You want to be blind...
...to your own religious privilege. You will not be allowed to do so. Sure, a religious flag at the Red Fort is bad. But before I take your objections seriously, you are going to have to take a hard look at the way you consider your religious symbolism okay and others not okay.
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