Salute a car or speak english

In a heated lunch table discussion, i had fervently advcated for India being a better nation than our neighbour who forced the school going children salute the car on roads. But evening news diappointed me. In one of our states, children were punished and humiliated for speaking in their native languages and not in English. Just curious enough, i dig deep into such interesting diktat which were imposed on People of late:

1.) a peculiar style of Salute by a Diplomat raised couple of eye brows

2.) Diplomat need to salute the minister in a peculiar style in a particular state.

3.) Producer forced put a disclaimer in his movie for using the word "Bombay"

Although most of the these were not approved by Govt but they still happened. Does it mean that i was wrong in my passionate argument for my country. May be Not.

On a separate note, i today pulled up the first music video which i had seen after the advent of cable Television. It was by a group called Erasure and song called Always