Give us the occasion, we Indians will give you the Day. We’ve adopted Father’s Day and Mother’s Day from the West, we have Children’s Day (Chacha Nehru’s in-perpetuity birthday gift), we have Teacher’s Day (former President S Radhakrishnan’s birthday), Sardar Patel’s birthday will be marked as Unity Day, and we have just inaugurated Good Governance Day.
Now that babus have commemorated Atalji’s birthday by clocking in to office on Christmas, how about a day that commemorates a fast dying freedom, namely Free Expression Day? Most newspapers only get three holidays in a year: Republic Day, Holi and Diwali. News gathering happens 24×7, 365 days of the year. But just as the PM has chosen to remind government servants that Christmas isn’t Read More
