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I still can’t figure out why I wrote those “dates” , maybe I was
trying to give a structure to my thoughts. Thoughts which were too
mixed up, but then I decided to start writing with a hope that they
will sort themselves out. Here I would mention that I am no
historian and have no expertise to claim factual correctness and I
am sure that all the readers are going to discount for this
weakness of mine !!
1857 : Liwaspur , Haryana … Udami Ram (A Govt
official –nambardar) organizes the local populace to take on the
British forces. A small group of 22 brave hearts are always on the
lookout for British Forces and vanish after attacking them swiftly
with their makeshift weapons. And as it has happened most of the
times in our freedom struggle, they are caught when a traitor
betrays them for a reward. In keeping with their best traditions,
British subject entire village to unimaginable tortures, crush all
the young men under big stones meant to level roads. No one
survives. Then they turn their attention to Udami Ram and his wife
whom they have already subjected to inhuman tortures and nail them
to a Pipal tree near the rest house at Sonepat. The torture
continues unabated. They succumb 35 days later and their bodies
receive a similar treatment as other people, they are crushed to
pulp under those stones. And thus ends an uprising by COMMON
PEOPLE.
June 2011 : Some where in Haryana … I was passing
Sonepat on my way to Punjab and I saw a big stone kept in a Park
named “Tau Devilal Park”. I was curious why they should keep a
stone so carefully in a park, so I stopped and decided to see for
myself. What I came across has been produced above. And I decided
to know beyond what was written on the plaque there. This took me
to Liwaspur, Udami Ram’s village. And this was where I was SHOCKED.
Time has stopped for the villagers. They still live in 1857!!
The traitor who betrayed Udami Ram was rewarded with the ownership
of all the land. Till today the Gram Sabha of this village has no
Land and the cases continue in court. Until recently, the traitors
family were “traditionally” the nambardaars of the village. All the
requests petitions to EVERYONE have fallen on deaf years. The
family of Udami Ram lives in a pathetic condition. Its hard not to
notice the gloom that surrounds the village, the hopelessness is
palpable. I felt that too, but I guess it was to be so, since they
had no Udami Ram alive, who would take up their cause and fight for
them. And in his absence, future generations of the martyr had
forgotten almost everything to join ranks with COMMON PEOPLE.
December 2012 : New Delhi … A Girl is subjected to
inhumanly torture and thrown on streets. After fighting with her
injuries and massive infections, she succumbs 12 days later.
Massive protests erupt demanding justice. The demand is “nothing”
when seen in the backdrop of the “might” of the Govt. They could
easily engage with protestors and assure justice, but they don’t.
They come down heavily on these people using every way to crush
them. Their lackeys masquerading as “intellectuals” and well
“entrenched” in the editorials of newspapers and in the TV shows,
shout out to the citizenry that these protests were nothing but an
attempt by some fringe, lumpen elements, out to destabilize
Government by spreading rumors and chaos. Citizens are falsely
implicated, arrested and the “rulers” make sure that EVERY VOICE is
silenced. And most of us are left wondering about whether the
“People” in the Preamble of our constitution means elite few or the
COMMON PEOPLE!!
Sure we have attained freedom but we really need to be free of the
“ways” that were passed on to us by our “rulers” who don’t rule us
anymore but whatever is done to the populace and the manner in
which they are treated does gives an impression of an invisible
hand. A hand that was always there, will always be there to make
sure that WE as a nation keep paying for 1857.
Shailesh Pandey | Follow the writer on twitter.com/shaileshkpandey
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