Himachali cap and the Independence ‘movement’

Kryztof Kieslowsky (a Polish director who died few years ago…) created cinematic history by carving out a trilogy on France’s Tricolour by making “Three colours Blue, White, Red”. So did our Kurukshetra Congress MP Navin Jindal by getting the Supreme Court to proclaim that the Tricolor can be flown by anyone, anywhere as long as it doesn’t break the Flag Code!

Thus began my obsession to own things tricolour… the first was the shirt while window-shopping at a client’s store, a famous address of ‘Once upon a time in Mumbai’(now a foreign bank). I proudly wear it on such occasions and once singled out at an officers’ party thrown by JCOs while visiting a dear friend, also from Shimla, in Jhansi where he was commanding an air defense unit! In between I kept collecting (and gifting) Tricolor lapel pins of quality… lso proudly worn by of course Naveen Jindal, Shashi Tharoor, Murli Deora, RBI head honcho, Anand Mahindra… and our very own DD Shimla’s Shishu Sharma Santhal!read full story