If love is good why is it wrong to love your nation?

Professor Paranjape of Jawaharlal Nehru University, known as a bastion of communism in Delhi, has written an article praising Prime Minister Narendra Modi for bringing a sense of nationalism to the people of India. Ever since his victory being a Hindu nationalist has become a crime, according to many. However, these same people do not see anything strange in Barack Hussein Obama or Bobby Jindal converting to Christianity to win elections. Nikki Hailey has a Christian surname from her husband. Prof Paranjape writes of rising nationalism everywhere in the world, especially in the European Union, which may break up because of the influx of refugees. "Indian nationalism, however, is not quite as negative or defensive. It is a positive, even assertive upsurge. Its central theme, tone, and tenor is the expectation that India can be great again," he writes. And it is Modi "who has made India and Indians proud once more." In their hatred of Modi the liberals make a distinction between patriotism, which is good, and nationalism, which is seen as Hindu and is therefore very bad. Patriotism is 'devotion to one's own country and concern for its defence', while nationalism is defined as 'a feeling that people have of being loyal to and proud of their country often with the belief it is better or more important than other countries'. Thus, our soldiers are patriotic, laying down their lives time after time to keep the country safe from Pakistani attacks but our politicians have always managed to turn victories into defeats by giving up the gains, because they have no pride in their nation, they are not nationalists. "In the recent past, scam after brazen scam made us hang our heads in shame. The apathy and indifference of government, not just of selfish netas but of callous babus, made us feel alienated from the state. All the while, the ultra-rich found new ways of making even more money in India and stashing it away abroad. Rich or poor, no one felt a sense of belonging and ownership," he writes. Neatly put. It is this lack of pride in the nation that allowed civil servants to waste Rs 1 billion of aid money for victims of floods in Uttarakhand in 2013, on having parties. It is this lack of nationalism that gives higher salaries to useless civil servants than to army officers who have to risk their lives for the nation. That is why Indians living abroad are ashamed of our politicians who loot our money and foist their criminal children on the nation. While a marathon runner was not provided with water while running the marathon our shameless ministers were enjoying themselves at the Rio Olympics with their wives, on taxpayer money. Without nationalism there is no pride and without pride there is no excellence.