hi, I agree that Kalam should continue as president....He might not have done much as president....He has not taken a stand yet on contentious issues like reservations in academics and the private sector....but at least he is educated which is more than what can be said about some of out other leaders.... Now about the national anthem....have always wondered what it is about the national anthem and national song and national flag and stuff like that which is so inviolable....do they unite the people to do something good for their neighbours?...no they dont....singing the national anthem doesnot stop you from spitting on the streets....patriotism is not meant to be shown to the soil....it is for the people around you....to say that you respect the national flag and dont really care about the poor in the country seems to me really funny.... Maybe in the pre independence days those symbols meant something to the general people....they were a method of national integration....but that is because those people were a better lot than us....they really cared about the person next to them....today we have nothing....and sticking to "respect" to those symbols without understanding what they stand for is worse than showing no respect at all....it is hypocrisy with a capital "H"
