Tribute to Chandrashekhar Azad

If yet your blood does not rage, then it is water that flows in your veins. For what is the flush of youth, if it is not of service to the motherland.

A 15 years old boy joined non-cooperation movement was arrested by British. He told judge that his name was Azad (free), his father’s name was ‘Swatantrata’ (Freedom) and his residence was the prison cell. He was sentenced to receive 15 whiplashes as punishment. This boy was not an ordinary person. He was one & only Chandrashekhar Azad – A great Indian freedom fighter & Guru of another Great son of Bharat Mata Bhagat Singh.

When I read about our great freedom fighters who gave their supreme sacrifice, I am amazed by their wisdom. Here I am, fighting a cat race in office for a bigger cabin & just thinking about myself & my family. Why we don’t put our motherland before us. Now only dream of many young Indians are to get a H1B or L1 visa & settler in America. If not America, the Europe, Australia or Singapore. We are happy to give up Indian passport for which millions of our forefathers gave their whole life. Why don’t we give taxes, why we look for free thing from Govt., why we attack our fellow Indians on name of caste, region & religion, why there are so many cases of violence against women? Why we have become so intolerant? On one hand, we have allowed anti-India slogans on our premier universities and on another hand some student organization attack everyone which has difference in their opinion. Where are we going?

You need to have the supreme devotion for motherland so that you can plan capturing of British treasure for a train in Kakori and kill the barbarian SP of Lahore Saunders to avenge the death of Lala Lajpat Rai. Azad formed Hindustan Republican Army & this group had some of the greatest freedom fighters– Bhagat Singh, Sukhdev, Rajguru, Ram Prasad Bismil, Ashfaqulla Khan etc. Azad took a wow that he would never be capture by British alive. Even though he was betrayed by a fellow Indian, he fought with British for 4 hours in Alfred Park, Allahabad (now Chandrashekahr Azad Park) and helped Sukhdev to escape. At last, he shot himself dead with his last bullet to honor his pelage not to be captured alive by British.

Azad remains relevant even in today’s time. We must tell his story to each & every Children. When I was a child, there was pictures of Gandhi, Azad, Bhaghat Singh, Neta jee etc. in my house. But now our children don’t know about great heroes & they can’t even recognize a Bhagaht Singh or Azad in the world of internet. No country can grow without remembering their own heroes. We had adapted Western culture, language, dress and that may be the right thing in the changing times but we must not forget our roots. Those who forgets their roots doesn’t become a true country but they become a slave of another culture. India doesn’t need much from us. If we become a good citizen who performs all their duties towards our country, then this will be our true tribute to Azad and all other freedom fighters.

Don’t see others doing better than you, beat your own records every day, because success is a fight between you and yourself - Chandrashekhar Azad