Vande Mataram, Year 1947, and it meant so much more. Now, it is more or less reduced to a couple of proud Indians, fancy of film makers, ideal end to everlasting speech of promises from our leaders. This is not a post to crib about the current scenario, its a recall or a call for someone who would be our hero,again.
He got the Youth of India take notice and rise to the challenge, he would have to come back to do that all over again.
He said “I emphasise that I am full of ambition and hope and of full charm of life. But I can renounce all at the time of need, and that is the real sacrifice.”
Shahid Bhagat Singh
““Revolution” does not merely mean an upheaval or a sanguinary strife – nor is there any place in it for individual vendetta. It is not the cult of the bomb and the pistol. Revolution necessarily implies the programme of systematic reconstruction of society on a new and better basis…..
…by “Revolution” we mean that the present order of things, which is based on manifest injustice, must change. The peasant who grows corn for all, starves with his family; the weaver who supplies the world market with textile fabrics, has not enough to cover his own and his children’s bodies; masons, smiths and carpenters who raise magnificent palaces, live like pariahs in the slums..
….the sense in which the word “Revolution” is used in that phrase, is the spirit, the longing for a change for the better. The people generally get accustomed to the established order of things and begin to tremble at the very idea of a change. It is this lethargical spirit that needs be replaced by the revolutionary spirit. Otherwise degeneration gains the upper hand and all of humanity is led astray by reactionary forces. Such a state of affairs leads to stagnation and paralysis in human progress…”
At an age, that I am at, now, he had the guts to walk in and inspire. He had the guts to scream “Inquilab Zindabad”. I wonder if there would ever be a Bhagat anymore, would in today’s world someone leave the fancies and comforts of day to day life to fight and die for this country? Would our Youth Leadership be more than the uneducated selfish bunch of politically supported parties, or would we soon see some one step up.
If I go by what this hero said, its time for a revolution.
Who will be the trigger this time. Me, you, the person next door, or would that take another chauri chora to happen? Don’t have the answers too? I wonder if I will find them soon, I wonder, if I would ever have the guts to do something like that. Would you have them?
Think. Maybe that is the beginning, to a glorious end. Maybe.
*Note: the above post may or may not represent opinion of my colleagues. quotations above have been edited from various letters, comments, statements made by Shahid Bhagat Singh.
Shahid Bhagat Singh
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