I have wondered what these people would have been……… Its only in their words that I found answers. Reproducing here some lines …By them…..
The lines down under are a must read IF U ever THOUGHT how futile a sacrifice , if u ever thought how hopeless at 23 , if u ever thought what difference did they make , if you thought it was just a rush of blood in the youth ..…These lines written by Bhagat Singh will certainly give you an insight about what Freedom, Democracy, Sacrifice and love meant to them…I request you to please read them and to remember their great sacrifice in the service of this potentially great nation.
Like any other youth but certainly beyond any genre, Bhagat wrote ….
“I emphasize 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.”
Perspective , clarity and direction……
The aim of life is no more to control the mind, but to develop it harmoniously; not to achieve salvation here after, but to make the best use of it here below; and not to realise truth, beauty and good only in contemplation, but also in the actual experience of daily life; social progress depends not upon the ennoblement of the few but on the enrichment of democracy; universal brotherhood can be achieved only when there is an equality of opportunity - of opportunity in the social, political and individual life." — from Bhagat Singh's prison diary, p. 124
About himself and his comrades……
“Let me announce with all the strength at my command, that I am not a terrorist and I never was, expected perhaps in the beginning of my revolutionary career. And I am convinced that we cannot gain anything through those methods. One can easily judge it from the history of the Hindustan Socialist Republican Association. All our activities were directed towards an aim, i.e., identifying ourselves with the great movement as its military wing. If anybody has misunderstood me, let him amend his ideas. I do not mean that bombs and pistols are useless, rather the contrary. But I mean to say that mere bomb-throwing is not only useless but sometimes harmful. The military department of the party should always keep ready all the war-material it can command for any emergency. It should back the political work of the party. It cannot and should not work independently.
“We humbly claim to be no more than serious students of the history and conditions of our country and her aspirations. We despise hypocrisy.”
“...by crushing individuals, they cannot kill ideas.”
Their strength of purpose
“What hope should I entertain? I know that will be the end when the rope is tightened round my neck and the rafters move from under my feet. To use more precise religious terminology, that will be the moment of utter annihilation. My soul will come to nothing. If I take the courage to take the matter in the light of ‘Reward’, I see that a short life of struggle with no such magnificent end shall itself be my ‘Reward.’ That is all. Without any selfish motive of getting any reward here or in the hereafter, quite disinterestedly have I devoted my life to the cause of freedom. I could not act otherwise.”
It’s Inclusive ……..
“We become pitiable and ridiculous when we imbibe an unreasoned mysticism in our life without any natural or substantial basis. People like us, who are proud to be revolutionary in every sense, should always be prepared to bear all the difficulties, anxieties, pain and suffering which we invite upon ourselves by the struggles initiated by us and for which we call ourselves revolutionary.”
About Love, Che wrote a marvel and this comrade has been as prophetic……
Love always elevates the character of man. It never lowers him, provided love be love.
‘The Gandhi’ in him ………
'Revolution' does not necessarily involve sanguinary strife nor is there any place in it for individual vendetta. It is not the cult of the bomb and the pistol. By 'Revolution' we mean that the present order of things, which is based on manifest injustice, must change.
This one is a beauty ……..
Crush your individuality first. Shake off the dreams of personal comfort. Then start to work. Inch by inch you shall have to proceed. It needs courage, perseverance and very strong determination. No difficulties and no hardships shall discourage you. No failure and betrayals shall dishearten you. No travails (!) imposed upon you shall snuff out the revolutionary will in you. Through the ordeal of sufferings and sacrifice you shall come out victorious. And these individual victories shall be the valuable assets of the revolution.
This is an effort to remember “the men”, to pay a tribute and to rekindle the fire of inquilab in our lives. These men envisioned FREEDOM for their people. Their ideas far descended the realms of political independence that India achieved in 1947. We claim such a rich heritage and beyond doubt the freedom struggle gave us the sages of modern India.
Saluting them all …..
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