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Donald Trump has suggested that Americans should be punished for unpatriotic behavior. In India, this vision is already a reality.

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Twelve people were arrested Monday for failing to stand during the Indian national anthem while it was being played at an international film festival, according to The Associated Press and local media.

The incident in the southern city of Thiruvananthapuram came after the country's supreme court ruled last month that the anthem must be played before every public film screening.

Nobody should be allowed to burn the American flag - if they do, there must be consequences - perhaps loss of citizenship or year in jail!

According to the court, the Indian flag must also be shown on the screen — and the audience must stand up.

The president-elect suggested last month that people who burn the American flag should be stripped of their citizenship and jailed.

In September, Trump also criticized San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick for refusing to stand during the national anthem, even suggesting Kaepernick should leave the country.

Vineesh Kumar, one of those arrested at the International Film Festival of Kerala on Monday, told The Indian Express that there was a scramble for seats and he was worried if he stood up he would lose his place.

The group was later released, the newspaper said, as the event did not want to follow up on the complaint.

Others have been less fortunate. Eight people were beaten by right-wing vigilantes Sunday after failing to stand at a cinema in Chennai, according to the AP. After they were beaten, the news agency said, they had complaints registered against them by police.

In October, Salil Chaturvedi, a disability activist who uses a wheelchair, was assaulted for not standing during the national anthem in Goa.

The assaults come after a rise in right-wing nationalism in India — one of several country's where Trump has business interests. Following its election in 2014, the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party has been criticized for conflating Indian nationalism with Hindu nationalism — accused of leaving the country's 200 million Muslims out in the cold.

Amnesty International has censured Indian authorities for clamping down on civil society groups that are critical of government policies.

'Religious tensions intensified, and gender and caste-based discrimination and violence remained pervasive,' the rights monitor said. 'Censorship and attacks on freedom of expression by hardline Hindu groups grew.'

According to Charu Lata Hogg, an associate fellow at London's Chatham House think tank, this 'unhealthy sense of nationalism that's been growing in India' is a cautionary tale for the U.S. if Trump plans to crack down on unpatriotic behavior.

'At the moment, the difference is that in the States the desecration of the flag is legal,' she said. 'In India, refusal to stand while the anthem is being played is a crime.'

She added that 'what we are seeing in both the U.S. and India fits into a global trend where an idea of nationalism is touted and legislated by a select few.'

Dr Gareth Price, a senior research fellow at Chatham House, said that the rise of vigilantism in India was particularly worrying.

'While there's nothing wrong with being proud of your country, once you've unleashed these forces then they are very hard to control,' he said.

Alexander Smith is a London-based senior reporter for NBC News Digital.

The national anthem of India, 'Jana Gana Mana,' is sung on many occasions, but particularly on two national holidays—Independence Day (August 15) and Republic Day (January 26).

The song includes the lyrics and music of the first stanza of the Nobel laureate poet Rabindranath Tagore's 'Jana Gana Mana,' written in praise of India. Below are the words of India's national anthem:

This full version of the anthem is about 52 seconds long. There is also a shorter version, which includes only the first and last lines of the full version. The short version of India's national anthem is 20 seconds long:

Tagore translated 'Jana Gana Mana' into English as follows:

By rule, whenever the anthem is sung or played live, the audience should stand at attention. It cannot be indiscriminately sung or played randomly. The full version should be played accompanied by mass singing on the unfurling of the national flag, on cultural occasions, at ceremonial functions, and on arrival of the president of India at any government or public function and also immediately before his departure from such functions.

India Anthem In English

The National Song of India

Equal in status with national anthem is the national song of India, called 'Vande Mataram.' Composed in Sanskrit by Bankimchandra Chattopadhyay, it inspired the people of the nation in their struggle for freedom from British Rule. This song was first sung at the 1896 session of the Indian National Congress and is as follows:

Vande Mataram!
Sujalam, suphalam, malayaja shitalam,
Shasyashyamalam, Mataram!
Vande Mataram!
Shubhrajyotsna pulakitayaminim,
Phullakusumita drumadala shobhinim,
Suhasinim sumadhura bhashinim,
Sukhadam varadam, Mataram!
Vande Mataram, Vande Mataram!

Hindu guru, patriot, and litteratteur Sri Aurobindo translated the song into English prose:

I bow to thee, Mother,
richly watered, richly fruited,
cool with the winds of the south,
dark with the crops of the harvests,
The Mother!
Her nights rejoicing in the glory of the moonlight,
her lands clothed beautifully with her trees in flowering bloom,
sweet of laughter, sweet of speech,
The Mother, giver of boons, giver of bliss.

Song's Role in Independence

'Vande Mataram' was first published in Bankimchandra's novel Ananda Math in 1882 and was set to music by Tagore, the composer of the national anthem. The first couple of words of the song became the slogan of India's nationalist movement. 'Vande Mataram' was the war cry that inspired those working for India's freedom from British rule.

In September 2005, the centenary of 'Vande Mataram' was celebrated at the Red Fort in Delhi. As part of celebrations, an exhibition of rare portraits of martyrs was opened in the Red Fort. Tributes were paid to Madame Bhikaiji Cama, who unfurled the flag of Indian freedom with 'Vande Mataram' inscribed on it at the International Socialist Congress at Stuttgart in Germany in 1907.