Flags in Drags

So the Independence Day 2009 celebrations are over. The 'privileged' public holiday too got over with the sun setting behind the Tricolour post. Even if you are unaware as to when the day ended, you can make it out effortlessly from the countless mini-Tricolours left stranded on the road. Be it the roads alongside schools, the highways, the lanes..Noticed a torn Tricolour amidst the empty choco-wrappers left behind by school children possibly after the 'celebrations'(who are taught a beautiful subject like Civics), a crumpled one breezing away along the roadside..Makes me feel sick.
I think we,Indians, need a crash course on the good ol' subject-Civics-christened as the maximum marks-getter in the Social Studies basket of subjects in school. Ever imagined how much plastic is wasted and ultimated lands up in the bins on account of manufacture of hundreds of dozens of flags to be flaunted off and eventually dumped twice every year countrywide?? I personally, avoid buying flags since it will be very bad on my part if I lose/damage it. And yeah, my friends too have the same opinion! If the youth can understand such simple things in life, why can't our respected seniors? Why do we buy flags and leave them in drags after the celebration stints on public holidays? Hope you are not among the latter lot.