Building India

Kudos to The Asian Age for its editorial Let the flag fly high, far above politics (February 20). It is amusing to note that while there’s a lot of hue and cry over whenever the tricolour or the national anthem is shown “disrespect”, no protest is made about hunger, poverty, illiteracy and the injustices our impoverished fellow citizens are forced to suffer every day. The national flag flying aloft may make a good sight, but only a hungerless, literate society enjoying basic human rights and dignity can form a truly prosperous nation.

Kajal Chatterjee

Kolkata