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A new India that is not inclusive is not what the founding fathers imagined

Have the teachers too become victims of a flawed notion of nationalism?

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A K Bhattacharya New Delhi
The school shall remain unnamed. But an incident in that school in New Delhi about two weeks ago is a reflection of the politically polarising and socially fraught times India has been living in for the last few years. Note that the incident took place in a school in the heart of India’s capital city and not in any remote rural corner of the country. 

Four students in their early teens were rounded up by their teacher for drawing a flag in one of their classes on August 14. They had drawn the national flag of Pakistan and that day
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