This is a moment of unending grief. It is also a moment for asking hard questions. There is nothing more tragic than avoidable death. Who is responsible? We asked for statesmen, wrote Wole Soyinka, we were sent executioners. Indians asked for statesmen, we got politicians for whom democracy is reducible to elections; a route to grab power and privilege.
Democracy has disappointed democrats across the world. We had hoped for democracy because this is the form of rule that recognises the political competence of ordinary people to participate in decision making. Democracy is of value not because of its outcomes, whether peace, increased GDP, or world-class infrastructure, but because of its presumption that every citizen is equal.
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Salute the martyrs of Khuni Baisakhi
Every year the 13th of April each time, the day comes not to remind the advent of Spring but it comes as Khuni Baisakhi to tell the stories of sacrifices of the people of Punjab at the altar of freedom struggle.
Ranjan Kumar Padmapati
(The writer can be reached at rkpadmapati@yahoo.co.in)
Every year the 13th of April each time, the day comes not to remind the advent of Spring but it comes as Khuni Baisakhi to tell the stories of sacrifices of the people of Punjab at the altar of freedom struggle. Indeed on 13th April 1919, as many as 381 attained martyrdom of which 222 were Hindus, 96 Sikhs and 63 Muslims. Blood of all the faiths intermingled the soil of Jallianwalabag. Pandit Modan Mohan Malaviya revealed that the youngest amongst the deaths was a seven-month-old infant and included forty two boys. The joy of New Year s Day no longer reverberates the air in Jallianwalabag on Baisakhi Day and please do not move away with the Spring spir
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