Sorry for misleading, but I have changed my mind and I m gonna write on the one who had his 138th birth anniversary on tuesday. The political one will have to wait.
No doubt, Gandhiji was one of the pillars in India's freedom struggle, and many people question whether we would have got freedom if Gandhiji didnt exist. To an extent, I agree with them.
But for a man who wielded so much political power, he was the only person the British were truly afraid of, and who deserved a better end than he got, he stuck to his principles too much. I am not saying that he should have resorted to non-violence, but when the British were executing Bhagat Singh why didnt he press for his release? Supporters will say that he did take up the topic during the signing of the Irwin Pact, but I say that he didnt try hard enough.
Many would agree and many more would not, but I feel that had Bhagat Singh survived, we would have achieved freedom in 1937 itself, not after 10 long waiting years...
And why do we celebrate Martyrs' Day on 31st Jan? Why not on 23rd March? Doesnt India's youngest revolutionary, who gave up his life for his country, deserve to be honored? Or just because his methods differed from The Great One, he was neglected? On 2nd October and 31st Jan you see many functions to honor Gandhiji, and there's a public holiday on 2nd Oct as well. But on 28th Sep and 23rd March, there's hardly any activity, nobody even knows the significance of these days, and my concern is that the Legend of Bhagat Singh may be lost in the future generations.
All hail the Legend!!! Au revoir...
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