Not every Republic Day celebration happens inside a school building. 🇮🇳

Some happen under open skies.

In a poor Indian village,
a group of children celebrated Republic Day
without classrooms…
without chairs…
and without a flagpole.

Yet what they did that morning
made the entire village proud.

📖 STORY (SHORT • DISCOVER STYLE)

The school had no building.

Only an open ground.

A few broken mats.

And a blackboard tied to a tree.

This was the only school
in a small village of Bihar.

On Republic Day morning,
the children arrived early.

Wearing clean but faded uniforms.

Their teacher, Mr. Verma,
stood holding a bamboo stick.

At the top of it
was tied a small Indian flag.

There was no stage.
No microphone.
No crowd.

Only twenty children
standing in a straight line.

When the flag was slowly raised,
all the children placed
their hands on their chests.

And sang the National Anthem.

Loud.
Proud.

A farmer passing by stopped.
Then another.
Then another.

Soon, the whole village
stood silently watching them.

After the anthem,
a little girl asked her teacher,

“Sir…
will we ever get a real school building?”

Mr. Verma smiled and said,

“One day, yes.
But today,
this ground is our school.
And this flag is our roof.” 🇮🇳

That evening,
someone shared a photo
of the children saluting the flag.

It went viral.

Within weeks,
donations poured in.

And a new school building
was finally approved.

But the children said only one thing:

“We didn’t celebrate for money.
We celebrated for our country.” 🇮🇳

🌟 MORAL

Patriotism doesn’t need buildings or budgets…
it only needs respect, pride, and a loving heart. 🇮🇳