Author: Shoma A. Chatterji
Shoma A. Chatterji
(Shoma A. Chatterjee is a film journalist, cinema scholar and author on Indian movies. A two-time recipient of the National Award for Best Writing on Cinema, she was honoured in 1991 as Best Film Critic and in 2002 for Best Book on Cinema)
Patriotism is the feeling of love, devotion, and a sense of attachment to one’s country or state. This attachment can be a combination of different feelings for things such as the language of one’s homeland and its ethnic, cultural, political, or historical aspects. It may encompass a set of concepts closely related to nationalism, mostly civic nationalism and sometimes cultural nationalism. But this is an evolving word which changes with time, space, culture, geography, history and people. Patriotism cannot be poured into a bottle and stored in the refrigerator or boiled on your stove. It is an abstract, emotional value that develops with the child…
