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A New Type of "COMMUNALISM"

Hi friends communalism according to oxford dictionary is "Loyalty and commitment to the interests of your own minority or ethnic group rather than to society as a whole" as we have seen in many books and a much hyped phenomena nowadays preached by our so called media. But as we know that communalism is about a group of people who are swellhead in attitude History of communalism  when we see the history of communalism it looks as if it is a creation of religion but to my mind communalism is not a byproduct of religion instead it grows on the faults between our social strata actually communalism is not a very old phenomena in Indian society instead it grown manifold in the 20th century onward as our forefathers initially didn't had a seed of communalism in their blood as we can see clearly form pre-1857 struggles there was not a feeling of communalism it is a well created problem of our rulers "British" as they didn't want to lose the jewel of their cro

RE-VISITING BHAGAT

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                                              Of late I once again came into contact with our martyr BHAGAT through annals but in a new and fresh perspective. The image of bhagat singh in my mind was of a radical and romantic youth having some socialist ideas but with a very powerful will power and determination for self sacrifice for sake of nationalism or love for country and after watching so many films on the life of bhagat that image got fixed in my mind that he was against non-violent techniques to attain freedom and became a brand for revolution and a brand of terror for British government and some incidents of his own life also frame the same image in one's mind (murder of Scot and assembly bomb case etc.)                   But he was much more than a sermonizer of violence to achieve independence.Even i can say that the whole troop of theirs wasn't a band of youths without any political and ideological strategy.From the days of formation of HRA these young men knew