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Dude, isn't Bharat Mata actually a guy?

DailyBiteMarch 30, 2016 | 10:57 IST

Headlines these days are all about who's an anti-national and what it takes to be one.

Chanting "Bharat Mata ki jai" has become one way to test if you're a patriot or not. And if you don't want to chant, the answer is either met with violence or a one-way ticket to Pakistan (or well, at least the threat of it).

Bharat Mata by Sandilya Debjay. (fineartamerica.com)

In all this, we seem to have conveniently forgotten some basic facts, if we are to re-read the great poet Kalidas' Abhigyan Shakuntalam.

This is what the Sikh man is trying to raise.

Watch the video and see how Bharta Mata might actually be our "Pita". A guy, not a woman.

Also read - Art of making 'Bharat Mata ki jai' sound like a miserable joke

Read more here.

Last updated: March 30, 2016 | 11:04
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