By D N Singh
The 75th Independence day this year is literally doused by a campaign ‘Har Ghar Tiranga’. Literally every home in India got to hoist a tricolour and for the simple reason that, to invoke the patriotism and love for freedom.
But majority of the country men are required not to be told that, the love for Tiranga had been seldom absent from Indian thoughts and volumes of paeans and poetry have been penned soon after Independence.
Not to take that as exaggeration but the height of Tiranga enjoyed an edge of the highest mountain peak, the Everest and it also nestles with the downs (not literal low) with the children and the green blades of paddy saplings in the fields saying ..jhanda uncha rahe humara’yet the highest of highs like Everest genuflect before it.
Some have described it as symbol of glory or Azmat and the same writers described it as unique.
The ones who could then be in love with had interpreted the three colours in the Tiranga..comparing saffron to ripe mangoes, the white to the lovely white snow on Himalayas and the green, the tender sapling on out interior paddy fields.
Some of the poets have penned nationalistic poems, especially for children; of these Shafiuddin Nayyar has written some of the sweetest, such as ‘Jhanda uncha rahe hamara,’ which uses words a mother might for her child so brimful it is with a pure, unadulterated love while also stressing that the Tricolour belongs to all Indians, and not a chosen few.
