Or do something with it. That's what the Indian government is telling everyone now. Narain Karthikeyan, who has now entered the world of Formula 1, has just been told to change his helmet. Why? It displays the national colours - saffron, white and green. The guy works assiduously for his country, gets it into the highest zone of the motorworld and he's not allowed to show his pride in being an Indian. Karthikeyan feels that it's the government's loss that he can't display the tricolour. Without those colours, he gains extra space on his helmet, which he could give to sponsors.
Even the cricket team has been asked to withdraw all forms of the national flag from its uniform. The reason given was that the Indian flag embossed on their helmet or their costume was "violative of Prevention of Insults to the National Honour Act, 1971". Nineteen Seventy One. What the hell was the government doing all these years??!! These sportsmen are merely trying to bring glory to the country, not to defame the national flag.
According to the act, "The scope of the law is restricted to overt acts of insult to and attack on, the national symbols by burning, trampling, defiling or mutilating in public." If the government really intends to follow this act, most of the Indian population should be serving time by now; for every year, on Independence Day, they "mutilate" the national flag with a pin that holds it to their clothing.
Something is terribly wrong with the government. God help us.
For more news about Karthikeyan's helmet being banned - Click here. To read the act which brought about all this fuss - Click here.
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The template huh... I've changed it, though it still is a bit dull.
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