Happy Republic Day.

"Thou Brave, be One! Behold, take courage, be proud that thou art an Indian and Proudly proclaim “I am an Indian. Every Indian is my fellow mate” – Swami Vivekanand.

I have taken a Republic Day resolution to watch the Republic Day Parade in DD like we used to do before the invasion of Cable TV and restrain myself from the "kuthu paatus" and other celebrity shows in the Tamil TV channels, however tempting(!) they are. On this note, I applaud all the Hindi channels for resuming their usual weekday telecast unlike the Tamil channels with their re-telecast of all the old Diwali/Pongal programmes and trying to make this day "special". How pathetic!