...Harmless Death...
"Harmless Death"..... Thinking over it i have spent usually not more than five minutes and have discarded the idea after failing to find any sense in it. How utterly stupid it seems....Can death ever be harmless?
My friend has given me a small job to do. The poem by Ram Prasad Bismil which goes as "Sarfaroshi ki tammanna; Ab hamare dil me hai;Dekhna hai zor kitna;Baazu-e-quatil me hai....." is one of her favourites and she wished to hear it recited by me doned with all the acts and strong revolutionist's accents that i put into it just for the sake of fun.
After all the fun and play one question stands staring me right into my face. Who actually were these people? Were they superheroes or some very daring and bold creatures who just never had fear in them. The fear of death, the fear of losing loved ones, fear of being heart-broken. Did they not have it?
It wasn't so.
They had every kind of fear what you could ever think of. But they simply found a greater fear- the fear of never being free in own country. Their biggest fear , they turned it into their greatest pride. The pride they had in dying for the country that made them say "Zindagi to apni mehmaan maut ki mehfil mein hai" failed anything to be a reason good enough to be proud of.
They weren't destined to die for the nation. None of such martyrs ever knew that they would be doing such a great thing. They chose what their destiny was going to be. They simply chose to do so. They found for themselves a purpose to live or rather die for. They lived even better after they died!
Harmless death was what they had lived and are still continuing to live. They died but such a Harmless Death....
posted by Sunita at 8:08 PM
4 Comments:
this is really an amazing work!!!Keep up the gud work!!
fantabulous..................
Meet.suni u left a remarkable imprint on ma' heart..
Keep Rocking Baby...
U have a wonderful future ahead....
Amazing piece of work....
I didn't see the death in the way u describe...and don't think there is a better interpretation.An eye catching
piece of work..keep it up..
"Hum Kis Gali ja Rahe Hain,
Apna Koi Thikana Nahi....."
While reading your introspective blog, exactly same lines came in my mind. Where we, the generation of 21st century leading? What is the objective and focus of our life? And how can we justify our way of living, thinking and challenging illicit things?
What was the age of BISMIL, IQBAL, BHAGAT SINGH and all other revolutionaries, who had the courage of one’s conviction? They were also part of this India and grown up under crushing circumstances, but what made them different? May be there policy “SHATHE SHATHYAM SAMACHARET” that is tit for tat is not completely acceptable, but they followed their own conviction. And what was wrong in it, its well known “Every thing is fair in love and war”.
Mahatma Gandhi’s has triggered revolts against Englishmen but because of revolutionaries like Bhagat Singh every corn of sand became aware of patriotism, there duties for mother nation. They were of very different breed that had courage to fight against very much politically polluted system. There revolt was parallel to congress that was like all things to all men for British rulers. Always looked for recognition, power and a bite of cherry from government. Still there are a plethora of unanswered questions why congress took such a move?
And on the other side these revolutionaries were live wires, who energized entire nation, with their thoughts, ideology, courage and sacred motif for the motherland. I think we are culprits of their generation for not giving esteem to them and respect for their ideology that it deserves. And how correct they were, when Ashfaqullah Khan would have quoted these lines
“Har warsh lagenge shaheedon ki mazar par mele,
watan par mar mitne walon ka baki bas yahi nishan hoga”.
We can’t tribute to them for their sacrifice but let promise ourselves, we wont be the part of crowd who sung patriotic songs and bhajans on their birthday and on martyr’s day, we will try to follow their ideas and will have courage to live a worthy life or will have a harmless death.
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