Perfecting Youth

Author(s): Udayvallabhvijay
Publisher: Samkit Yuvak Mandal

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idol respected equally as GOD, be called a "khilouna".?
be pure' and unfortunately the artist who delivered a rubbish dialogue (defaming gangajal) was granted a ticket in the Loksabha polls and won the election also.
Let it be gangajal, kalash or even a deity (considered GOD by the crores who believe), it carries a symbolic value. Hence, it can't be laughed over or mocked.
The character of Kanjibhai in the movie OMG contemptuously calls the sculptures of deities khilauna i.e. toy (which is a merchandise for him). However, these deities are not khilaunas. The sculpture or a statue is an object where the sentiments, dedication, attachment and respect of a person are reposed.
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Imagine someone mentioning the national flag as 'KAPDE KA TUKDA' and you know the consequences. You can recollect the cricket Icon SACHIN TENDULKAR cutting a tri-colour cake (resembling the national flag) on his birthday during the Indian team's tour of West Indies. Finding himself in controversy, he apologized at the end of the matter. Otherwise, if there had been an insult proven, he would have been prosecuted under the "THE PREVENTION OF INSULT TO NATIONAL HONOUR ACT 1971'.
Ask an old mother who has lost her son in the road accident, while he was just 17 year old - whether the photograph of her son is a mere piece of paper for her? Why has she preserved that photograph and kept it close to her chest for her life time, often crying while looking at the picture?
Ask a widow why she often goes to the grave of her husband who died at prime of his age. There is only mud and decomposed body parts in the graveyard. Why she has to go there, light a candle and pray, pray for what?
There is also the national flag code which prescribes the DO'S AND DONT'S of use and display of the tricolor. Similarly, the National Anthem also bears a great respect.
If the National Flag or National Anthem, a symbol of national significance cannot be recognized as a 'kapde ka tukda' or 'lori', how can an
Ask a teenage girl in love what her birthday gift, which she received from her friend means to her? It is just a piece of metal or plastic or even gold or silver? Or is it something more than its intrinsic
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