60 INDIATODAY AUGUST 19, 2019
WHAT
PATRIOTISM
MEANS TO ME
CALL OF THE SOUL, LOVE OF THE HOMELAND,
DEVOTION TO ONE’S WORK... IT MEANS DIFFERENT
THINGS TO DIFFERENT PEOPLEMEGAN KACHARI, 52
Poet, former publicity secretary of the
United Liberation Front of Assam (ULFA)“THE REVIVAL OF
REGRESSIVE FORCES
HAS THREATENED THE
EXISTENCE OF DALITS,
TRIBALS AND MINORITIES.
WITH SCANT RESPECT
FOR DEMOCRATIC
INSTITUTIONS AND THE
CONSTITUTION, THEY
SEEK TO IMPOSE A CRUDE
AND EXHIBITIONIST
FORM OF NATIONALISM.
PATRIOTISM IS EVERY
CITIZEN’S CALL OF
THE SOUL. IT’S NOT
IMPOSED, IT’S A NATURAL
INSTINCT.”
NILOTPAL BARUAH