65th Year Independance Day and Fight goes on...

So once again time to see lots of Tricolor flags and hear stories of freedom fighters around us will be coming in 3 days from now. Yes, it is पन्दरा आगस्त, now has become (15th August) a vacation time to enjoy the FREEDOM with closed ones. But because we all have obsessed with our daily machine life, should the holiday on our Independence Day be meant just for relaxing ourselves? Is it the real freedom we are valuing and enjoying or just temporary entertainment and amusements?

With press, media, history Textbooks enforcing Gandhi - Nehru on our mind related to freedom fight, we almost have ignored the real fights of great patriots for our freedom. One among them who continued fight of total freedom till her death is Captain Lakshmi Sehgal, Wiki the Commanding Officer of Women wing (Jhansi Rani Wing) of Azad Hind Fauj (INA). She had left the fight for Freedom not a month before, on Jul 19, 2012. And yet not many of us knows it. She still was saying in her last years of life "Fight goes on!". Read brief of her great unbeatable life here.

The fight she was fighting till her death was the Complete Freedom. We the largest producers of doctors (also sadly exporters!) couldn't able to cure the diseases of our own country people and She was running her own clinic and serving poor and underprivileged patients around Kanpur till the age of 98! If you have read the link about her you might have by now know how great was her life, still not many of us knew about her till her death.

It is only political freedom we had got from Britishers. Economical and Social Freedom is yet to be achieved by us. We have second largest manpower in the world still we are controlled by money super powers. We produce lot more than we can eat, still many crores of people struggle to get daily two times roti. There are lot more such ironies present in our nation that are questioning the freedom of us, still we ignore them and enjoy pseudo freedom within our nuclear machine life.

Is this the way of our living in freedom? Is this the Bharat that lakhs of freedom fighters dreamed while sacrificing their life towards it? Don't we have at least the courtesy of valuing their struggle for freedom? Is this the country which we had thought? Don't we have anything inside us to fight against immorality, injustice? Can't we do more than being a machine, towards our surroundings?

Nation is built and run by people who feel they can do and not by people who live just because they exist. System changes may not happen during a life time but struggle continues and people with cynicism can only become spectator in their life and can't enjoy the play! So think and realize, do you want to be on the ground playing or just simply watching? "Fight goes on!"

Vande Mataram

Wikileaks Playing Ugly Holi on India

Today is holi, the Festival of colour. But colour our nation has got now in-front of the world is so ugly that joy of holi cannot make the shame of ugliness forget. Wikileaks yet again exposed one more ugly face of our nation.Here But we are busy with world cup, and as always the “why bother” mindset of people have made the central UPA Govt. to feel relax. If there is any gunnies record for scam and corruption amount then our nation will be shamelessly in first place. Approximately the total amount of scams exposed is nearly equal to Indian Budget. Still we are sitting in an A/c Room with luxury and have limited our social responsibility only for paying taxes and filling income tax returns.

It is not the central UPA Govt. alone of which scams are being exposed, in Karnataka, Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh and other states also for every month different kind of scams are exposed. In the time of British rule for every law that were tried to impose on Indians to snatch the independence there were public protest in many ways by different kind of freedom warriors. Sadly in Independent India, we the INDIANS are so much self centred and cowards that we are not even saying NO to the things which we knew that they are not right. We have got better education, technology than of those times. We are not having cruel and unjustly laws to curb our rights to fight for right cause. We are not ruled by ruthless British but are ruled by our own ELECTED people. Still we cannot come out of comfort zone of us to demand for good and clean governance from the people whom we have voted. Even though we can say we are very much advanced in terms of technology and ease of life compared to those living 65 years back in terms of human values and dignity and courage we are lambs in front of those people.

Corruption is everywhere. Even in private sector corruption has got the name of Processing Fees and is spreading to all parts. We see cases filed against Ministers, MLAs, MPs are all because of political reasons without having any intension to punish the corrupted. Whoever is in Power can influence any Govt. office to file a case, raid on anybody’s house, issue an arrest warrant, issue court notice. The two major political parties Congress and BJP are just engaged in condemning each other without even worrying about national disaster that has caused due to various scams that are coming out. The fourth element of constitution the Media which are there for making public voices to reach the people in power and force them to do the right things have become slaves of political parties. They are forcing the people to accept their own created slavery opinions, news. Otherwise some of the media houses are busy in going behind the asses of Celebrities and Cricket Stars.

It may seem like now nothing can done to make system clean from corruption. Does it so? Shall we give up and live like lambs? If our previous generation were able remove mighty British rule from our nation, we who are in superior conditions compare to them, can’t we clean our own system? Otherwise, don’t we feel ashamed for not keeping the dream of Freedom Warriors’ “The Strong Self Reliable Sunhera Bharat”?

But again “why bother” mindset prevails. As long as we get salary at month end, Team India keeps playing Cricket we are not worried of whatever happens to dignity of our nation. Sadly Indian team losing a cricket match in world cup league is considered as disgrace than Wikileaks exposing our nation as the corrupted nation in world.

We should understand that it is not the time for relaxation. We have got freedom from British but the problems which are in society deep routed have to be removed. Poverty, Corruption, Unemployment, Communalism etc are biggest hurdle for our growth in world. We don’t have clean and transparent system in any of Govt. organisations. Unless we have strong system in place we can’t assume that our life will not be affected by the corrupt things that are going around us in our nation.

“Truth Always Triumphs” We have to make this real and we don’t have other choice to remain governed by third class corrupt politicians and babus. Because we are not animals, we are human beings and we should have rightful living!

An unsung Revolutionary for Freedom of India

Have you heard/read of Gadar party in any corner of boring mugged up history books of school days? Or in any small column of a news paper?

Well, I am not talking about any of the present political parties.

Here is their advertisement

Remuneration :	Death
Reward :	Martyrdom
Pension :	Freedom
Field of work :	Hindustan

Do you dare to join it?

It was the party whose activities shook the mighty British during First World War. The man behind this courageous and amazing activity was Lala Haradayal. Yesterday it was his 125th birthday. A dedicated soldier of Freedom of India. Link. Yet we fail at least to remember and recall. More worrying is only few know about this great son of Bharat who had chosen the path of struggle for freedom leaving the lavish life aside.

Young Lala Hardayal who went to London for higher studies and then to become ICS (Same Like IAS/IPS) had left path of easy going life and started living for the cause of freedom of India. He then form a group of revolutionaries and started a party called "Gadar Party".

Excerps from Link

"The party was built around the weekly paper The Ghadar, which carried the caption on the masthead: Angrezi Raj Ka Dushman (an enemy of the British rule). "Wanted brave soldiers", the Ghadar declared, "to stir up rebellion in India. Pay-death; Price-martyrdom; Pension-liberty; Field of battle-India". The ideology of the party was strongly secular. In the words of Sohan Singh Bhakna, who later became a major peasant leader of the Punjab: "We were not Sikhs or Punjabis. Our religion was patriotism". The first issue of The Ghadar, was published from San Francisco on November 1, 1913."

Gadar Party was first of its kind to start armed war against Britishers in foreign land.

Here are some of the links of knowledge of great effort this party towards struggle of freedom.

Gaddar Party/Movement

Ghadar Party

Understanding revolutionary idol Lala Hardayal

Gadar Party- Indian Revolutionary Organisation

I hardly remember these inspiring stories being mentioned in any of so called history books that I have studied in my school days. My question to those who prepare the history books are

What made you to believe that the stories of such sacrificing great revolutionaries are not worthy compare to glory of Moguls and Britishers?

Why are trying to impose the thought that Gandhian principles only gave freedom India hiding the whole set of facts?

How dare are you to scrap the though of revolution and armed struggle against Britishers which had also great effort in making Britishers to move out of India?

Do you have the real spirit of a unbiased historian?

All these stories of works of these great men shows us the one thing i.e. war for freedom was not a short story starting and ending with Gandhi, Ahimsa and Congress alone. It is very long story ever in the world of struggle for freedom of many organisations, parties and great revolutionary ideas and people behind it.

In total our freedom does not come for free. Let us not take things for granted, at least when it matters the nation.

Vande Mataram