{"id":5143,"date":"2008-01-25T15:41:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-25T10:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.indiauncut.com\/?p=2302"},"modified":"2008-01-25T15:41:00","modified_gmt":"2008-01-25T10:11:00","slug":"patriotic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiauncut.com\/patriotic\/","title":{"rendered":"Patriotic?"},"content":{"rendered":"
Salil Tripathi<\/a> writes in:<\/p>\n Reading about the note on men<\/a> willing to die for others in the army reminds me of a conversation X [a colleague] had with a general once. (True story; I was around him at the cocktail; we were Y [a newsmagazine] colleagues). So this general berated X and Y, saying journalists are unpatriotic, anti-national, selling the nation’s interests down the drain, not committed to unity, whereas he was patriotic, willing to lay his life for the country. After he finished this dramabazi<\/i>, X said: General, I am patriotic; you are paid to be patriotic.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Heh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n