<span style='font-family:Optima'><span style='color:orange'>Shaheedon ki chitaon par lagenge har varsh mele,
Watan pe mitne walon ka yahi baki nishaan hoga...</span></span>
My Dear Brothers and Sisters,
Remember Chandrashekhar Azad? Our nation's legendary hero of freedom struggle, who not only laid down his life at the peak of his youth for his nation, but also ignited the fire of nationalism in the hearts of thousands of youth of his time.
It brings tears to my eyes to notice that everyone seems to have forgotten that great icon of our nationalism. July 23, 2006 which would mark his 100th birth anniversary, is about two weeks away, and there is absolutely nothing from the thankless nation he died for? I don't see anything in media, anything from Indian government, or anything from any political or otherwise organization. Films? I only find him as a side character in some Bollywood films.
Just contrast this to the birth anniversary celebrations of Congress leaders.
I wander if our nation still remembers his heroic sacrifice. When confronted by ambushing British police in the Alfred Park of Allahabad UP, he fought bravely and in the end chose to shot himself instead of getting caught. Only son of his ailing old mother, at that time He was all of 25 years of age. Does our nation remember that golden story when a single man with mission had challenged the British Raj's might?
His short life was no small life. In that short life he had mentored a whole team of firebrand revolutionaries who went after fighting the British tyranny, head on. Bhagat Singh, Sukhdev, Rajguru, Ashfaqullah Khan, Rajendra Lahiri and many more were all his proteges. From a diary of one of his protegees: someone complimented him that he was the bravest and most patriotic Indian. He immediately responded back saying he wished he was the least worthy son of his motherland and rest of her sons were braver than he was!
Nation may have forgotten him. Here is a very small thing that we can do. I am creating this thread, and I request every member to try and add material related to his life and mission, as a shraddhanjali to that great legendary son of Bharat Mata.
<span style='font-size:14pt;line-height:100%'>Maha Purush, Please accept shraddha suman from my humble generation! Children of the nation you died for have not forgotten you! Indeed:
...Shaheedon ki chitaon par lagenge har varsh mele,
Watan pe mitne walon ka yahi baaki nishaan hoga...</span>
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chandrashekar_Azad
Sachetak
Bodhi
Watan pe mitne walon ka yahi baki nishaan hoga...</span></span>
My Dear Brothers and Sisters,
Remember Chandrashekhar Azad? Our nation's legendary hero of freedom struggle, who not only laid down his life at the peak of his youth for his nation, but also ignited the fire of nationalism in the hearts of thousands of youth of his time.
It brings tears to my eyes to notice that everyone seems to have forgotten that great icon of our nationalism. July 23, 2006 which would mark his 100th birth anniversary, is about two weeks away, and there is absolutely nothing from the thankless nation he died for? I don't see anything in media, anything from Indian government, or anything from any political or otherwise organization. Films? I only find him as a side character in some Bollywood films.
Just contrast this to the birth anniversary celebrations of Congress leaders.
I wander if our nation still remembers his heroic sacrifice. When confronted by ambushing British police in the Alfred Park of Allahabad UP, he fought bravely and in the end chose to shot himself instead of getting caught. Only son of his ailing old mother, at that time He was all of 25 years of age. Does our nation remember that golden story when a single man with mission had challenged the British Raj's might?
His short life was no small life. In that short life he had mentored a whole team of firebrand revolutionaries who went after fighting the British tyranny, head on. Bhagat Singh, Sukhdev, Rajguru, Ashfaqullah Khan, Rajendra Lahiri and many more were all his proteges. From a diary of one of his protegees: someone complimented him that he was the bravest and most patriotic Indian. He immediately responded back saying he wished he was the least worthy son of his motherland and rest of her sons were braver than he was!
Nation may have forgotten him. Here is a very small thing that we can do. I am creating this thread, and I request every member to try and add material related to his life and mission, as a shraddhanjali to that great legendary son of Bharat Mata.
<span style='font-size:14pt;line-height:100%'>Maha Purush, Please accept shraddha suman from my humble generation! Children of the nation you died for have not forgotten you! Indeed:
...Shaheedon ki chitaon par lagenge har varsh mele,
Watan pe mitne walon ka yahi baaki nishaan hoga...</span>
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chandrashekar_Azad
Sachetak
Bodhi