Shah hoists, Tricolour falls

August 16, 2018 15:43

The Tricolour slipped down the pole and dropped to the ground as BJP president Amit Shah hoisted it at the party headquarters, handing critics a chance to get their own back on the face of an ecosystem that is ever ready to question others' "nationalist" bona fides.

Doordarshan broadcast that awkward moment live on Independence Day, so there was nothing the government could do for all its fabled reputation for micro-managing the media.As the country watched, the stunned silence in the studios was broken by a male voice saying in an undertone: " Tch tch tch tch... disaster."Most of those who watched and commented on the clip, which went viral, thought it was the anchor's voice and feared for his job, and worse.

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