Wednesday, July 5, 2017
Friday, April 14, 2017
Editorial, "UNPERISHING FLOWERS OF HUMANITY," in LAW ANIMATED WORLD, 15-31 March 2017 combined, Martyrs Memorial special issue, Vol. 13, Part 1, Nos. 5-6
UNPERISHING FLOWERS OF HUMANITY
In the context of the
unforgettable martyrdom of Shaheed-e-Azam Bhagat Singh
and other comrades, who were basically non-conformist internationalists
demanding and fighting for, in the then circumstances, independence to our
country, with their cherished slogans of “Long live Revolution!” and “Down with
Imperialism!”, the glowing tributes paid by late Comrade P.C. Joshi while
meeting the Kayyur martyrs prior to their hanging at their cells in Cannanore
Jail come to mind: “… across the verandah – there was a sort of flower
bed. Without a thought, what was inside me got formed into a sentence. "Those flowers are
perishable. You, comrades, are the flowers of humanity that will never perish".” How exquisitely put, and how truly it applies to
all the great martyrs of our freedom struggle. Time and again it has been
stressed in these columns that we owe our political independence as also all
the successes, and trials, in our persistent and indefatigable struggle to
achieve the needed socio-economic independence and development too, to the
pioneering and consistent contributions of various groups and individuals
working strenuously to overthrow the colonial rule and usher in a free
democratic socialist society by all possible means including waging intense
armed struggles against the ferocious enemy. The heroes and martyrs to whom our
reverent tributes are being paid in the title cover page of this issue are among
such pioneers who, giving up their relatively comfortable lives and livelihoods
in a foreign land, came rushing to their motherland during World War I to wage
a Gadar i.e. rebellion, as they
called. Unfortunately their plans and measures were foiled, most of them caught
and jailed. Ultimately sentenced to death in the First Lahore Conspiracy Case
Kartar Singh Saraba, Vishnu Ganesh Pingle and five others were hanged – to take
their names into the Roll of Honour of many such martyrs who perished in body,
but not in spirit as they believed, and most of them yearned to take birth
again to continue the fight. It is remarkable that Kartar Singh Sarabha – just
a 19 year old ‘kid’ it might be said - was like a deewana parwana (mad moth) passionate to plunge into the fire of
freedom and burn to ashes, and refused to file any mercy petition. He is said
to have “put the noose around his
neck himself and laughed away death and immortalized himself.” He became the idol for
Bhagat Singh, who faithfully followed in his footsteps to a later, similar
glory. Hundreds of others suffered and many perished in various jails and in
transportation at the Andamans, but remaining firm in spirits unto the last.
Our glowing tributes to all these fighters and unflinching commitment to their
ideals. §§§
Editorial, "RACISM ON THE HIGH IN THE U.S. NOW?", in LAW ANIMATED WORLD, 28 February 2017, Vol. 13, Part 1, No. 4 issue
RACISM ON THE HIGH IN THE US
And is it because the ‘White racist’ Trump has become
the President now? Certainly if our presstitute media is to be believed, but
definitely not if the real facts and circumstances are properly looked into. Also
it is the worst sort of temerity to accuse a country or its rulers to where you
run like rats to hail on and glory in the ‘foreign returned’ or ‘US working’
insignias. That too being in a country where at any time you can see – upper
castes hate lower castes, lower castes fume with ire toward the upper ones,
backward castes hate upper castes and dalits both, and these both despise the
backward ones, orthodox Hindus abuse Muslims and Muslim fanatics rave rancor toward
Hindus, etc. etc. And murders, rapes, etc. emanating from all these galore, with
no need for guns even to commit all connected excesses and atrocities. Truly, people
living in glass houses must not throw stones. All this is also hate propaganda,
some may say, and justify with plaudits and platitudes on communal harmony,
cordial contacts between various castes and religious communities, mutual
tolerance and deference for the downtrodden, etc. and accuse people of
magnifying the bad things. That may also be true and that’s what exactly
attempted here to highlight. For example, Vamshi Reddy’s murder in Milpitas was
not due to racial hatred but by a crazy felon and drug addict absconding from
law and perhaps he (Vamshi) fitted ‘the sad cliché of being
in a wrong place at a wrong time’ as
a discerning correspondent Scott Herhold in Mercury News remarked and then clarified:
“That one [accusation of exacerbated racism because of Trump being the cause] is almost certainly untrue.
For starters, police did not charge the suspect with a hate crime. … Whatever
the president’s flaws, the shooting cannot be laid at Donald Trump’s feet.” And
the caught suspect bears a Hispanic surname! Well, Kuchibhotla
Srinivas’ shooter appears to be a racist but seems a bit senile too, and is on
record having stated he shot two Middle Eastern men! Harnish Patel was much
loved by the Lancaster
Editorial, "High Drama in Tamil Nadu Politics," in LAW ANIMATED WORLD, 15 February 2017, Vol. 13, Pt. 1, No. 3 issue
HIGH DRAMA IN TAMIL NADU POLITICS
we are witnessing now before our very eyes. The
nefarious role of the Mannargudi Mafia was hinted at in an editorial in this
journal once earlier and the current developments have only confirmed those
suspicions. As one among the servile sheeple, the [now ‘acting’]
Chief Minister O. Paneer Selvam also had meekly submitted to and supported the
many moves of raising up Sasikala, the chief female don of the Mafia, to
positions of power inside the ruling AIADMK party and overlooked
the quite obvious undermining of transparency and
honesty leading to suspicious death of Jayalalitha, his mentor and veritable
goddess. However, it seems the short span of independent acting as Chief
Minister coupled with some innate distrust of Sasikala seems to have sown seeds
of discontent and rebellion in his heart and mind and especially his successful
dealing with the Central Government on the need for legalizing Jallikattu and
more so his supporters’ active participation in the novel Jallikattu movement
that shook up the entire State and ultimately made the governments of both the
State and Centre to bow down to the popular agitation, appears to have
inculcated a lot of self-confidence in himself. Moreover, the hasty move by
Sasikala to become the Chief Minister herself, thinking perhaps that thereby
she would be able to avert or at least postpone any adverse verdict by the Apex
Court in the pending appeal against corruption case on Jayalalitha, herself and
others, and making him to resign his post, was on a second thought quite
unpalatable to OPS and he rebelled – per the wisdom in the axiom: “Better late
than never.” This unfolded the high drama with Sasikala virtually confining all her supporter MLAs
in a resort under strict watch and, after the adverse verdict of the
Supreme Court on 14 February and need to go to jail at any cost, appointing a
proxy, Edappadi K. Palaniswami, as her nominee for Chief Minister’s post and
with OPS firmly opposing the same with masses and other parties, including the
opposition DMK, generally applauding his efforts to stall and defeat the
Mannargudi Mafia. Hope OPS, profusely praised for his sincerity, devotion and
honesty by Jayalalitha herself, would finally win but even if defeated in the
race, it is doubtless that he has already gained immense gratitude and applause
of millions of people in this course. §§§
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)