HAPPY REPUBLIC DAY...!!!

Just cracked a record, In past 15 minutes I might have scanned 150 channels yet watching none. Had I been any western country I might have  been diagnosed as someone with ADD. Attention deficit disorder. In this half-sleep half wake moment, my ears caught dialogue on sony tv

“Do you want to fight for change or Do you want to fight to punish?” …

my entire laziness shot down and my alertness shot up.  That line was from film Gandhi by Gandhi replying when He(capital H plz) was asked to launch mass violent struggle against british( small b plz). Another line that really electrified me was when He gives His first speech to Indian congress.

“India will never convince british as long as congress is filled with lawyers and few rich intellectuals from Delhi and Bombay. India resides in 700000 villages. Unless we touch those villages,  our struggle will be just small incidents of small strikes and few terror strikes which will give british reason for further repression.”

No wonder, congress was like a club with intellectuals and lawyers  than a mass organistion which geared up to throw britishers  out of India…only discussion and analysis club than action-oriented machine…till Gandhi stepped in.

I think Richard attenbourgs Gandhi is one original dvd one should have for rest of life. Every time we watch we get different insights. So much inspiring and awe felt.

Its so surreal to see India during  britsh era. Vacant lands, dress, environment, colonial architectures (awesome buildings, trust me I lived in them fer half a decade), cars and trains. Fantastic feeling.

One book I recommend is Domnique laperries “FREEDOM AT MIDNIGHT”. It’s a narrative of political environment during last stages of british rule in 1940s. belive it or not. Its so spine chilling which will move anyone  to deep contemplation in profound silence. Entire country goes to flames under savage communal riots. Behind the scenes of making of two young countries. India and pakistan.  How trains crossing borders between Punjab and Pakistan coming in deathly silence  coz all its passengers were brutally murdered and raped. Only dead bodies arrive. No time in world history does such mass migration takes place. Millions of people on trains,bullock carts, horses,palanquins etc..leaving everything and going to far off lands just being at wrong place with wrong religion. 

Two hundred years of idea of India torn into two pieces.

Unimaginable tragedy and holocaust and genocide Indians have gone through at time of independence is story every Indian should know to understand freedoms we have today which we take so granted.

Probably other book that evokes similar sentiment is TRAIN TO PAKSITAN by kushwant singh. Fictious tale but based on truth. Try latest version which comes with photos as well.

Chalo before I forget the main purpose of this mail….HAPPY REPUBLIC DAY…!!!!

like Gandhi said in that film...there are no good byes between us friend...!!!! till we meet again....joy and peace to you and world around...!!!!