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  Insecure Nationalism It is hard not to notice a sense of insecurity that seems to be pervading all around us.   We Indians seem to have been creepingly overtaken by feelings of insecurities at several levels. One prime case in point is the sense of nationalism. Looking back at the time when we were young, Indian nationalism, forged on the anti- colonial struggle had by that time evolved into a forward looking ethos despite our condition of a poor state struggling with a multitude of problems - poverty, high illiteracy, industrial and agricultural backwardness, lack of educational and healthcare facilities etc . If one were to trace the graph of India's position in the world from the time of independence till date, the nation has been growing steadily - economically, militarily - and it is on a rising graph. We take pride in our growing status in the world. We are no more "violence-fearing peace-mongering," weaklings. In the words of our Leader "Once upon a time w...