The changing colours of Azadi!

There was a time when 26th January meant watching the Red Fort parade and 15th August was about a patriotic movie on television. I remember Doordarshan kept showing Roza for years before finally changing to Sarfarosh. It used to mean singers from Bollywood and the classical world singing 'aye mere waton ke logo'and 'saare jahan se achha.' Things have changed. Perhaps people have grown tired of watching the same old movies and hearing the same old songs and they can't bear patriotic sentimentalism even for one day. So now for Independence Day, I suddenly find channels making television actors dance to bollywood melodies and reality show singers crooning away all the love songs they had sung before on normal workdays. Its not that there aren't other progammes on air, but...I don't know, may be I'm old-fashioned.