{"id":5722,"date":"2007-04-11T00:58:00","date_gmt":"2007-04-10T19:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.indiauncut.com\/?p=747"},"modified":"2007-04-11T00:58:00","modified_gmt":"2007-04-10T19:28:00","slug":"even-an-anthems-got-feelings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiauncut.com\/even-an-anthems-got-feelings\/","title":{"rendered":"Even an anthem\u2019s got feelings"},"content":{"rendered":"
CNN-IBN reports<\/a>:<\/p>\n Infosys Chief Mentor and Non-Executive Chairman NR Narayana Murthy landed in a mess on Tuesday after it was revealed that he may have unwittingly insulted the national anthem during a function at the company’s Mysore campus on April 8, where President APJ Abdul Kalam also took part.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n It seems the anthem got up and walked off in a huff, and later called its friend, the flag, to whine about being insulted. “I hate being insulted like this,” it said. “You and I should emigrate and then, without us, the nation will have nothing to be proud of. Whaddya say?”<\/p>\n “Quite right,” said the flag. “I’m tired of this pole, in fact. You have no idea what nonsense it gets up to.”<\/p>\n Anyway, here’s a heated Ryze discussion<\/a> on the subject. I think someone should just implant a chip in the brains of all these uber-patriots that plays the anthem 24\/7. They’ll have to sleep standing up then.<\/p>\n (CNN-IBN link via email from reader Siddharth Chhikara. Ryze link via email from MadMan<\/a>.)<\/p>\n Update<\/b>: It seems<\/a> that Sachin Tendulkar has committed “a crime under section 2 of the prevention of insult to national honour act of 1971.” He allegedly “cut a cake in the colours of the national flag during the Indian team’s stay in the West Indies last month.”<\/p>\n Do you think our “national honour”, whatever that is, can be endangered by the cutting of a cake? Pah!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" CNN-IBN reports<\/a>:<\/p>\n Infosys Chief Mentor and Non-Executive Chairman NR Narayana Murthy landed in a mess on Tuesday after it was revealed that he may have unwittingly insulted the national anthem during a function at the company’s Mysore campus on April 8, where President APJ Abdul Kalam also took part.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n It seems the anthem got up and walked off in a huff, and later called its friend, the flag, to whine about being insulted. “I hate being insulted like this,” it said. “You and I should emigrate and then, without us, the nation will have nothing to be proud of. Whaddya say?”<\/p>\n “Quite right,” said the flag. “I’m tired of this pole, in fact. You have no idea what nonsense it gets up to.”<\/p>\n Anyway, here’s a heated Ryze discussion<\/a> on the subject. I think someone should just implant a chip in the brains of all these uber-patriots that plays the anthem 24\/7. They’ll have to sleep standing up then.<\/p>\n (CNN-IBN link via email from reader Siddharth Chhikara. Ryze link via email from MadMan<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,9,3],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n\n
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