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Dude, isn't Bharat Mata actually a guy?

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DailyBiteMar 30, 2016 | 10:57

Dude, isn't Bharat Mata actually a guy?

Headlines these days are all about who's an anti-national and what it takes to be one.

Chanting "Bharat Mata ki jai" has become one way to test if you're a patriot or not. And if you don't want to chant, the answer is either met with violence or a one-way ticket to Pakistan (or well, at least the threat of it).

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Bharat Mata by Sandilya Debjay. (fineartamerica.com)

In all this, we seem to have conveniently forgotten some basic facts, if we are to re-read the great poet Kalidas' Abhigyan Shakuntalam.

This is what the Sikh man is trying to raise.

Watch the video and see how Bharta Mata might actually be our "Pita". A guy, not a woman.

Read more here.

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