Mandira Bedi was a co host at the recent Cricket World cup and, like any beautiful television person, wore separate designer clothes everyday. One of her designer saris featured the flags of all the countries including that of India. Unfortunately for her the fall of her sari resulted in the Indian flag touching her right knee for which a case has been filed against her charging her with insult of the national flag. I remember a little story I read some time ago. When Bhagirath was guiding the Goddess Ganga down the mountain towards the sea her waters disturbed the dhyan (meditation) of a sadhu. He was angered by this and drank up all the water in one gulp. Distressed by this turn of events Bhagirath expressed his sorrow and did penance and was able to melt the sadhu's heart. As was the custom in those days the sadhu wanted to grant him a boon and Bhagirath asked him to free the Goddess. The sadhu was in a bind. Ganga could be freed in one of three ways only. Cutting open his stomach would kill him and would be sinful. The Goddess would be insulted by vomiting or urinating her out and that was unacceptable. So the sadhu made an incision above one knee and the waters of Ganga flowed out again. Since the 'knee' is known as 'jaanu' in Sanskrit so Ganga is also known as Jahnavi. This is the Goddess who was so angered by being asked to leave her normal residence in Heaven and come down to this dirty world that she threatened to jump down hard and shatter the earth to pieces. To prevent this happening Lord Shiva cushioned her jump by taking her onto his head and allowed only one stream to escape so that she could not drown the earth. If Ganga is happy to be known as Jahnavi surely our flag cannot be insulted touching a knee.