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-\secstar{"ക്രിക്കറ്റ്, ദേശീയത, പണം" - ചില നിരീക്ഷണങ്ങള്‍}
+\secstar{ക്രിക്കറ്റ്, ദേശീയത, പണം - ചില നിരീക്ഷണങ്ങള്‍}
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ക്ഷമിക്കണം ബാബുരാജ് ഇവിടെയെഴുതിയ\footnote{\url{http://puthunireekshanam.blogspot.com/2008/05/blog-post.html}}
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ഓഫിന് മാപ്പ്: അരുന്ധതി റോയുടെ പ്രസിദ്ധമായ 'come september speech'ല്‍ നമ്മുടെയൊക്കെ കപട
ദേശീയതയെക്കുറിച്ചുള്ള ഒരു പ്രസ്ഥാവന ഇവിടെ ഉദ്ധരിക്കുന്നു. ''An ‘anti-national' is a person who is against his/her
-own nation and, by inference, is pro some other one. But it isn’t necessary to be 'anti-national'
+own nation and, by inference, is pro some other one. But it isn't necessary to be 'anti-national'
to be deeply suspicious of all nationalism, to be anti-nationalism. Nationalism of one kind or
another was the cause of most of the genocide of the twentieth century.
Flags are bits of coloured cloth that governments use first to shrink-wrap peoples'
minds and then as ceremonial shrouds to bury the dead. When independent, thinking people
(and here I do not include the corporate media) begin to rally under flags, when writers,
painters, musicians, film-makers suspend their judgment and blindly yoke their art to the service of the 'Nation',
-it’s time for all of us to sit up and worry. In India we saw it happen soon after the Nuclear tests in
+it's time for all of us to sit up and worry. In India we saw it happen soon after the Nuclear tests in
1998 and during the Kargil War against Pakistan in 1999. In the United States we saw it during
the Gulf War and we see it now, during the 'War against Terror'.
That blizzard of Made-in-China American flags.``