For children, Independence Day is largely about sporting green and white, holding pennants, and playing on baaja (a toy trumpet). It’s also a festive day out with their elders. When the night falls, families — not to mention the rowdy boys — show up in the streets, riding their bikes and/or cars, to partake in the joy and view the illumination. But when they swarm a state monument such as the (retired) PAF fighter jet on display at China Chowk; ride its wings, and have all sorts of fun, it doesn’t look appropriate.